Thought for the Week: An atomic soap bubble

Jonathan Doering explores an apt image for Quakerism today

by Jonathan Doering 29th June 2012

I blow another soap bubble as my son laughs. It jumps and dances on the floor: a skin of constantly reforming rainbow colours. Move in closer and we find the atom: a building block of existence: when scrutinised, it is revealed to be composed of space, within which different particles weave around each other in creative dynamic harmony. Is this an apt image for Quakerism today?