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Date: 09 September 2007 19:27:23
I went to my first Quaker meeting today. For anyone who knows me, it was the most difficult thing to do. I found the silence both liberating and excruciating at times, and an hour felt like a very long time, but I came away feeling very peaceful. The people there were very welcoming and took time to explain to me what was going to happen... one woman made me laugh though she said to me when I walked in "It's not difficult, nothing much happens, well nothing you can see anyway!"
I think I will go back. Not sure it is something I want to do every week, but I might change my mind after going to another service at the church I have been intermittently going to for a year. I guess I just decided that something has to change. I was sitting in the silence and the quote from Albert Einstein came to me, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I have been finding church intensely disatisfying, so something has to change. Not quite sure what the change needs to be yet though.