It’s never too late to give thanks, Sheila Maxey finds

I can’t get T S Eliot’s words ‘We had the experience but we missed the meaning’ (Four Quartets: ‘The Dry Salvages’ III) out of my mind just now. My mind seems so full of hopeless regret but I wonder if, through God’s good grace, it might be possible to discover the meaning of certain experiences many years later….

Sheila Maxey is a member of Ingatestone United Reformed Church, Essex

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This is an extract from an article published in the May 2024 edition of Reform

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