'This I believe is a time of purity of intention – an expression of selflessness, unblemished by doubt.' Photo: Josh Boot / Unsplash.
‘This is the certainty in which I hope to be enveloped.’
Many Friends have tried to describe a Meeting for Worship. Alan Johnson offers his own insights ‘from the stillness’
by Alan Johnson
23rd August 2019
In chapter two of Quaker faith & practice, Friends describe their experiences in Meeting for Worship. In particular, 2.11 reminds us that individual experience, valuable as it is, ‘is not sufficient, and in a Meeting held in the Spirit there is a giving and receiving between its members, one helping another with or without words. So there may come a wider vision and a deeper experience’.
