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Have you had an experience of the presence of God?

Has a voice, a vision, a dream changed your sense of who youare?

Has a sense of oneness with God changed your life?

Are you hungry for a God who provides real guidance?

This book is for you.

Have you wondered if God exists?

Have you wondered if God cares about you?

Do you wonder if God is still talking to humans?

Do you yearn to love God but feel you need to be introduced?

This book is for you.

In a context in which an intimate interactive relationship withGod is not always highly valued, understood, or actively nurtured, and whoseimportance as the root of social action is sometimes overlooked, this bookwitnesses to the action of God in the lives of Friends today, and theirresponse to it. Mysticism at work. Frances Taber, Ohio

"The stories range all over the human condition and encompasssuch a broad variety of peoples experience of God that when one needs to readthe words of another human being wrestling with an experience similar to onesownit is possible to find it among the many stories. All of us have so much ofthe world in our lives, dragging us away from faith, that this kind of book iswhat we need." Rita Varley, PhiladelphiaYearly Meeting Library

WhatCanst Thou Say? is a quarterly newsletter that has gathered storiesof Quakers sharing their first-hand mystical experience and contemplativepractice. It is produced cooperatively by a group of volunteers, who,themselves, have felt the movement of the Spirit and wish to deepen their understandingby interacting with others. This book includes some of the stories and poemspublished in the first ten years as celebration of our tenth anniversary.