Touched by God in Quaker Meeting

It has been said that a good meeting for worship comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable. It may do even more than these two things as, in the living silence or through the vocal ministry we experience a sense of direction or redirection, feel our consciences awakened or made more sensitive, or find within us a yearning for the triumph of God's will in our own lives and in the world around us.

It is part of the spiritual experience of Friends that we, both individually and collectively have found inspiration and guidance coming to us through our meetings for worship. Drawing upon my own half-century or more of experience and discovery, I now share with you accounts of some of the meetings for worship where I am convinced that we were truly touched by God – occasions where as we reached out to God we experienced God also reaching out to us, so that we were brought together in a way I have never forgotten.