Thought for the Week: John Lampen looks back and fore

‘I wondered whether there was a value in some Quaker queries addressed to me and others of my age.’

by John Lampen 14th January 2022

At our last Area Meeting worship we remembered a Friend who had recently died at the age of ninety-one. The early nineties is the median length of Quaker lives, judging by the notices in the Friend. I found myself thinking that this means I might have another ten years, and I wondered whether there was a value in some Quaker queries specifically addressed to me and others of my age. These are the ones which have come up for me. They are not offered as a revision of Advices & queries 27–30, but simply as a personal exercise.