Getting alongside you

Categories: forty-blogs-of-lent

Tags: Church

Date: 22 February 2013 20:11:21

Getting alongside you

Forty blogs of Lent

Day 9

Reflections on a Lent Course

Part 1

Holy Trinity Huddersfield

Today was the first in the Lent meetings at churc, or rather in the narthex at the back of church, because the church itself in hard to heat in winter. This made little difference as the boiler was broken. We met in the cold. I'll save you the details of the course itself, I'm more interested in people's reactions to it, and see if anything that is said strikes my attention. Fortunately something did. When speaking about her depression one person said, "What you need is someone to come alongside you, not in a cheer up or pull yourself together way, but in a way that says, 'if you want me, I'm here.'"