#shakerism

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

[theinwardlight]

I have been walking in fine valleys with Christ, in heavenly union... Christ is ever with me, both in sitting down and rising up; in going out and coming in. If I walk in groves and valleys, there he is, with me; and I converse with him as one friend converses with another, face to face.

Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers

[ladysundown]

Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, MA.

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

I visited blorbo from fringe American religious history for Easter.

[theinwardlight]

No man or woman is indispensable. The world is not made on that plan. Therefore, the busiest person may pause to breathe. 

Rosetta Cummings (1841-1925), Shaker Sister, Enfield Shaker Village

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

"I Love Mother (Pretty Mother's Home)" and other sentiments about Amanda Seyfried previously most strongly associated with West Hollywood brunch gays

[theinwardlight]

Quote from Rosetta Cummings, Shaker Sister, Enfield Shaker Village