The greatest gift our children can give us is a capacity to see the world anew. Parents gain increased awareness if they allow their children to be their teachers.
--Friends Testimonies in the Home

Put off the garb of woe, let mourning cease;
Today we celebrate with solemn mirth,
The planting in the ravaged waste of earth
Of one small plot of heaven, a Home of peace,
Where love unfeigned shall rule, and bring increase,vAnd pure eternal joy shall come to birth
And grow, and flower, that neither drought nor dearth
Shall wither, till the Reaper brings release.

Guard the ground well, for it belongs to God;
Root out the hateful and the bitter weed,
And from the harvest of thy Heart's good seed
The hungry shall be fed, the naked clad,
And love's infection, leaven-like, shall spread
Till all creation feeds from heavenly bread.
--Kenneth Boulding, "Sonnet for a Quaker Wedding"