Gathering memories as living stones

Towards the end of our last morning at the women in ministries meeting we gathered in the garden room of the Windermere Centre to bring together some of our rememberings. We picked up stones and laid them down again, confessed and sang and rose as a forgiven people; we exchanged thoughts and insights and memories, sharing words and silence; we connected and communed with God and one another.
In remembrance of Christ we shared bread and wine, as God's living stones we lit candles and prayed. And we sang and were blessed and later made our way homewards, taking remembered stories back with us into our communities where day by day we seek to weave a narrative that is bread and not stone.