September 2015 meeting for reverence

The meeting for reverence followed our usual format.  We do not have a minister associated with our congregation; instead one of us as a lay person presides for each meeting.  It’s rather lovely to be able to use an apposite but rarely used word for this role: we use the word “president” with a lower case “p”.

The president for the day devised the service using texts from the Northern Pagan Tradition, and chants.  The first text was a reflection on the nine worlds, and how each brings its imperfection to make the perfection of the whole. The perfection of the whole is represented by the cosmic ash tree, Yggdrasil, whose roots reach into each of the levels of the nine worlds.

The second text was on the idea of wergild, where we navigate the victories and failures of ourselves and others in a spirit of mutual recompense, knowing we will be either side of it at different times throughout our life.

A lovely coffee morning followed.