Reflections on service
Stuart Yates looks back at his time on Meeting for Sufferings
If my Local Meeting is my immediate family, my Area Meeting my extended family, then Meeting for Sufferings has comprised my more distant cousins whom I meet occasionally. This is due partly to my attendance at Meeting for Sufferings being almost continuous: over twenty ‘appearances’ with just one gap. That degree of continuity felt like an indulgent bonus. Like cousins, there is a sense of picking up where we left off.
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