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Good Works
Oct. 4th, 2024 08:21 am A Quaker from Herstmonceux dropped in on our Thursday get-together. She's a jolly Yorkshire woman- and we were all very jolly together.
I think jolliness is closer to godliness than most other things. I appreciate cleanliness but I'd put jolliness higher in my personal scheme of things. This is something I came to fairly late in life.....
This gal (well, she's a lot younger than me) volunteers at a soup kitchen run by an evangelical outfit on Seaside. I'm inclined to be sniffy about evangelicals but they're usually in the front ranks where good works are concerned, so if they insist on banging on about Jesus they've maybe won the right....
She said she'd served nearly 100 breakfasts that morning. I've got to say the number took me aback. I knew we had homeless people but I didn't know we had quite so many.....
In a nice little piece of synchronicity our clerk told us (a) that the Eastbourne food bank is the biggest in the country and (b) that it's running short of food. We decided on the spot (no sitting around waiting for discernment on this one) that we would start collecting foodstuffs at the Meeting House.
Big box by the door. Beginning this weekend....
I think jolliness is closer to godliness than most other things. I appreciate cleanliness but I'd put jolliness higher in my personal scheme of things. This is something I came to fairly late in life.....
This gal (well, she's a lot younger than me) volunteers at a soup kitchen run by an evangelical outfit on Seaside. I'm inclined to be sniffy about evangelicals but they're usually in the front ranks where good works are concerned, so if they insist on banging on about Jesus they've maybe won the right....
She said she'd served nearly 100 breakfasts that morning. I've got to say the number took me aback. I knew we had homeless people but I didn't know we had quite so many.....
In a nice little piece of synchronicity our clerk told us (a) that the Eastbourne food bank is the biggest in the country and (b) that it's running short of food. We decided on the spot (no sitting around waiting for discernment on this one) that we would start collecting foodstuffs at the Meeting House.
Big box by the door. Beginning this weekend....
