Query on FAMILY*

How do we make our homes places of love, hospitality, and spiritual growth? Is your home a place where all members of the family receive affection and understanding and where visitors are welcome?

Do you choose recreation and a manner of living that enriches the body, mind, and spirit and shows a high regard for family, community, and creation?

Do we take care that commitments outside the home do not encroach upon the time and loving attention our family needs? Do we respect the needs for intimacy or separateness of those with whom we live?


* This month and continuing through May 2011, our monthly query will be selected from the Lake Erie Yearly Meeting draft Advices & Queries (available in booklet form on the lobby table, and in electronic form on the LEYM website, leym.quaker.org). This practice will enable our Meeting to consider different queries from our standard 12 while also providing the opportunity to offer opinions to the ad hoc committee that developed these queries for LEYM. The selected queries this month are nos. 23, 24, & 25.