Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 26th June 2022

Dear Friends,

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

Carl Jung

Why am I a Friend? Because Quakerism takes a whole view of life. Everyday living and religion are all of one piece, and we are including, not excluding, in our approach… Over the years the Society has given me continuing friendship. To be
human is to be a separate person and, therefore, to know the fact and the mystery of aloneness. Although I find I can make surface contact with people quite readily, I am often lonely and experience stretches of doubt and dryness. Then especially I need friends who will accept a quality of friendship which involves praying for me. By this I mean that they care enough to think of me, to ask themselves if there is any special need of mine they can meet, to commend what they don’t know about me to God’s wisdom, and when we meet to make me welcome.

Donald Court. QFP 10.33

In Friendship

David

On behalf of the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team; Bob Harwood, David Hitchin, Chris Lawson, Theresa Samms and Nancy Wall