Meeting for Worship
Jamie Wrench offers a guide for newcomers
The first thing that hits you is the silence. It’s quite frightening initially, especially to us Europeans for whom the absence of noise usually means something has gone horribly wrong, so don’t be scared, just listen to the silence… Listen to it, savour it, roll it around in your head, because (and I know this sounds a bit weird) there are many different forms of silence – and you’ll get them all at some time in a Quaker Meeting.
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