The quiet life: Mary Brown considers different kinds of silence
‘Silence can be frightening, but it can be sacred.’
Over forty years ago, one of my daughters, then aged eleven, asked if she could bring a schoolfriend to Meeting for Worship. Of course I said yes, but left it to her to explain to her friend what Meeting was. After Meeting I asked the friend how she had found it and she replied, ‘Terrifying’. Apparently she had asked my daughter what would happen in the silence, and got the answer ‘nothing’.
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