Thought for the Week: Silence and worship

Rosalind Smith reflects on silence and worship

by Rosalind Smith 11th January 2019

A Sunday. A Meeting for Worship. A gathered silence. This must surely be the ideal Meeting for Worship? Not too much shifting around, no one coming in late, winter coughing almost unnoticeable; just the occasional creaking chair, but nothing to prevent everyone in the room gently centring down and soon being absorbed into the powerful build-up of the silence – the Silence.