Thought for the Week: Live adventurously

Anthony Wilson reflects on the Quaker Service Memorial

by Anthony Wilson, Quaker Service Memorial Trust clerk 26th April 2013

During the war years, in a world engulfed in violent conflict, members of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) and Friends Relief Service (FRS) witnessed to their pacifist convictions. They made their choice and ‘lived adventurously’.  In the spring of 2011 Staffordshire Friends forwarded a concern to Meeting for Sufferings that a memorial to commemorate this service should be constructed at the National Memorial Arboretum, six miles from Lichfield Meeting. It was less obvious that we would also be living adventurously. We were invited to test our concern with other Area Meetings and received responses that were sufficiently supportive and constructively questioning for us to take the next steps into fundraising.