Structures and the Spirit

Beth Allen writes about a historical change in the administration of Quaker Meeting houses in London and the end of Six Weeks Meeting

by Beth Allen 6th January 2017

My small Local Meeting, like most others, gathers a varied collection of worshippers: a peace campaigner, a financier, a physiotherapist, a street pastor, the chair of a local housing association, a teacher and others. Each Sunday the living depth of our stillness gathers, lightens and heals our concerns, our failures and successes; as we separate, the silence flows into our weekday lives, into the nursery which uses our building, and into other faith and local groups which hire our rooms.