Faith in our lives - creating circles of community - preview
Adrian Glamorgan is seeking to create a circle of community
As in Quakers, we could begin with the shape of our Meeting Sitting in a circle, all see and can be seen Like spiritual knights, we are together as equals at the round table; anyone's wisdom can nourish the many, and we serve something far greater than material power Yet emphatically our way is peace We will not coerce a single person We know of no problem decisively solved with the sword
Much of this round togetherness is in communal silence We are not hermits, yet there is something reclusive in this Quaker way, facing inwardly into this circle We shape into the circle in order to be restored within, but then we expand outwards, into the world To remind us, even the letter Q in Quaker has a circle in it, and a little more than a circle too It is the tail of the Q that leaves and moves back into the circle It is to our Meeting, facing each other, we return It is to and from the world we go
Adrian Glamorgan
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