Feedback on our first www. or Wednesday Worship With Dot

More than a dozen of us sat down together in the peaceful St Cuthbert's Anam Chara Chapel (Gaelic for "Soul Friend" or even "Boon Companion"). Ruth Gillett, who works out at the Gyle and had taken a day off to help prepare for this occasion, introduced us to this "oasis" of a lunch hour, a time for reflection, reflective worship even. This can be undemanding, we discovered, and stilling of the mind, heart, soul and body - a veritable haven of refreshment.

Dorothy Neilson (the Dot!) helped us to focus on what a varied and stunning creation we have all around us. Ruth and Dorothy had prepared some exquisite "prompts" for our eyes: pebbles, flowers, shells, nuts and grapes even! We were invited to not only see and contemplate, but taste and appreciate…

We dispersed all over the church and enjoyed the calming music played to us as we stood, sat or even lay down in the soft light of one of the most beautiful arrangements of candles you have ever seen. How de-stressing and deeply connecting this was. But all too soon our time of peaceful reflection was at an end and we went back to our offices, refreshed, reinvigorated and hopefully noticeably calmer and more helpful to those around us.

Let the word go out: the next www. occasions are 15th October, 19th November and 17th December. Once you've tried two or three such www.'s you'll be hooked… and maybe lunchtimes will never be the same again.

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