Synopsis

Out of the Silence: Stories from a Quaker Life shares some of the moments of faith from one Quaker life. It is not so much the stories that the author wants to share. It is the promise and the power of the faith within the stories – to share with her children and their children and all the children of all the mothers who have ever loved their children. It is her gift to them, the one gift that will remain when all material things are gone, when she herself is gone. It is her stories of those precious moments when faith sustained and saved her, unexpected and unanticipated moments, moments when she was in the presence of that empowering Light.

These are the simplest of stories: no miracles here, just tales of living life day-by-day, and doing ordinary things. For that is the secret – to find, in the most ordinary of moments, that which is the divine.