Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 20th September 2026

Dear Friends,

Allow 

There is no controlling life,
Try controlling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado.
Dam a stream, and it will create a new channel.
Resist, and the tide will sweep you off your feet.

Allow, and grace will carry you to higher ground.
The only safety lies in letting it all in –
the wild with the weak –
fear, fantasies, failures and success.

When loss rips off the doors of the heart
or sadness veils your vision with despair,
practice becomes simply bearing the truth.
In the choice to let go of your known way of being,
the whole world is revealed to your new eyes.

by Danna Faulds

May these words help you to see and feel ‘The Light’ in your silent worship.
In Peace and Friendship

Geoff Halsey

Quakers value diversity. We share this Friend’s message in the hope it will speak to others.

Pastoral Care and Eldership Team: Bob Harwood, David Hitchin, Sharon Krummel, Tim Pitt-Payne, Helen Thomas, Jenny Wistreich