Queries

Below are queries (questions) that have been offered at the rise of Meetings for Worship at Charlotte Friends Meeting. We invite you to reflect on them as you are led.

2026 Queries

  • In recognition of World Quaker Day, what aspects Quakerism speak most strongly to you?

  • What are my biases, both spoken and unspoken, that contribute to the issue in negative and positive ways?

  • How are we waiting for what may come to us?

  • If all of my existing obligations and commitments were removed, and I started afresh - How different would my life be?

  • What are the questions I should be asking?

  • What are we listening to, in these times with 24-hour news constantly bombarding us? Are we making time and space to listen to the still small voice?

  • What is the power of joy? How can we use it to affect change? Let us see then what love can do.

  • How do I make room for joy and for heartache in my family and in my community?

  • How am I making space for serving my community with joy and…persistence?

  • What can we/I do to keep the spirit going on as we leave meeting today?

  • How/where do I find spaces to deepen my spirituality?

  • Do we take time to find rests, interspersed with the music of life?

  • Who in my life might feel unseen or unheard? What am I doing to see and hear them more fully?

  • In what ways can I let my life speak more openly, clearly, strongly?

  • As individuals we are called to ask ourselves, how do I practice love and generosity to my neighbor next door and to those on the other side?

  • What is rising within you as we celebrate this day?

  • How do I make room for hope?

  • What is love calling us to do?

  • Am I giving myself space and opportunity to hear the quiet voice of optimism within

  • In these strange times, ow do I act and live with courage, leading with love?

  • What would I most like for these children to know? How would we impart that to these young friends?

  • How am I recognizing and acknowledging the contributions of those involved with what we are going through during these hard days?

  • Do I periodically (or daily) reflect my journey - where I have been faithful, finding courage and clarity, as well as where I may have faltered?

  • How can my dis-ease inspire and uplift me?

  • How do I hold on to hope? And carry joy in my heart and bring light and love to all whom I meet in this bleak midwinter time?

  • What roles can I play in the movements for peace and justice that I see at work around me?

Past Queries - click here