Meeting for Sufferings: When the Spirit moved
Jamie Wrench offers a personal reflection on Meeting for Sufferings
First, the breaking news: Sufferings may be smaller than it was, but it’s not quite as small as they thought. Opening worship was characterised by the last dozen to arrive having to stand at the back, so what would have been a seamless transition to the business of the day was punctuated by the merry sound of additional chairs being brought in accompanied by the mutterings of Michael Hutchinson to the effect that it didn’t look good not to know how many Friends there were in this new, lean gathering. Then it got hot. Many of the windows, having been recently painted, did not open. They tell me there’s air conditioning but it’s so noisy it’s turned off. You couldn’t make it up…
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