Weather (or not)

Erica and I have just returned from our cluster reflection meeting. We’re due to become an A cluster by Ridv?n 2007, although we can surely achieve this before then. We intend to be an early contribution to the Universal House of Justice’s goal of 1,500 established Intensive Programmes of Growth. The meeting was quite well attended, but there were too many talks and not enough opportunity to consult.

The group (soon to be a new Local Spiritual Assembly) I live in has volunteered to host the next cluster reflection meeting - the cluster doesn’t yet have an Area Teaching Committee. When we plan the programme in consultation with the Auxiliary Board member and the Area Training Coordinator, I hope we’ll find more efficient and visual ways of sharing information, so that we can spend more time in consultation, planning our teaching work.

Now the weather has turned foul and it is chucking down very wet snow outside. The forecast is that this will pass during the night and things will - I hope - warm up during the week. As we drove into Welwyn Garden City this afternoon for the cluster meeting, we passed a number of trees in blossom, but this weather doesn’t help us feel Spring-like.

The most significant thing today has been the day of prayer called by our National Spiritual Assembly for the support and safety of the Bah?’?s in Iran. We’ve been asked to recite the Fire Tablet - and we did so at our Nineteen Day Feast last night and at the cluster meeting this afternoon.

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