‘As you’d imagine, emotions ran high.’ Photo: Egon Kramminger by Manfred Werner / Tsui (Wikimedia Commons)

‘Often it’s only in retrospect that I recognise some moment of grace, progress, or connection.’

Thought for the week: Joseph Jones’s game theory

‘Often it’s only in retrospect that I recognise some moment of grace, progress, or connection.’

by Joseph Jones 23rd September 2022

One of the things I most cherish about worshipping with Friends is our determination to recognise the sacred in the everyday. Most famously, perhaps, this means we resist designating certain times or events as ‘special’. But the day-to-day search for meaning goes deeper than that. It’s a commitment to being alive to the ‘promptings of love and truth’ in every moment.