Working with others
Jane Pearn reports on a recent General Meeting for Scotland
I leave home at seven o’clock. A drive, two trains and a bus later, I arrive just before eleven, with Friends I met on the train. Others have been more adventurous: one, aged seventy-eight, cycling to her local station. Friends in St Andrews welcome us warmly for the gathering, which was held on 5 March. There are thirty of us, from all four Area Meetings and from eleven of Scotland’s thirty-six Local Meetings. We may not be numerous, but it’s good to be worshipping and discerning with committed Friends. We settle into worship. The tone is set by a reading from Quaker faith & practice 3.29 reminds us that our Meetings should ‘do us good’.
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