{"id":8829,"date":"2026-08-14T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=8829"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:52:47","slug":"neym-sessions-2026-by-martha-hinshaw-sheldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=8829","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;NEYM Sessions 2026,&#8221; by Martha Hinshaw Sheldon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary of a message given at Durham Friends Meeting,  August 9, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was much learned at New England Yearly Meeting sessions 2026.\u00a0 My August 9 message was just the tip of the iceberg on the theme used at sessions &#8211; &#8216;Spring Forth O Well, and make us whole,&#8217; from Numbers 21:17\u00a0 on spiritual renewal and the healing sustaining power of water.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My final words in the message were for us &#8216;to be the well&#8217;.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My postscript is that you are the well, in many ways, as individuals and as a community.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Funny how a message that can take 15 to 30 minutes can be summed up in a few sentences.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of a message given at Durham Friends Meeting, August 9, 2026 There was much learned at New England Yearly Meeting sessions 2026.\u00a0 My August 9 message was just the tip of the iceberg on the theme used at sessions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=8829\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-message"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-2ip","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8830,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions\/8830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}