Skeletons of trees on a high horizon, gleams of sunshine and curtains of rain: inside the school hall, wall bars, balloons and red hearts stuck on the walls, and groups of Quakers playing a boundary game. We were learning about how to be a Becoming Friends companion.

Discussion was deep and far ranging; we looked at the suggestions in so many ways, with the phrase ‘It all depends…’ rising from all the groups round the hall. Lizz Roe gave such a lively introduction to our Meeting of Friends in Wales at the end of February that we all want to come on the Woodbrooke/Swarthmoor Hall course on how to be a companion. All the copies she brought were snapped up – a bargain at £10 and fascinating for those of us who have been Quakers all our lives as well as for the newcomer. The searching questions in it and the passages quoted make us consider more deeply our own faith; have we really thought it through?

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