Meetings and retreat time in Cyprus
 Both Tricia and I had meetings in Cyprus – for me the Bishop’s Council and Standing Committee; for Tricia the Spirituality Development Team. With the Gulf Air schedule we left on Sunday but were not able to return before Thursday, arriving just in time to participate in the Ascension Day Holy Communion.
The meetings were demanding, but the opportunity to spend time in the Diocesan Retreat House – Katafiyio – a favourite place for both of us, is always welcome. I took the opportunity to have a long walk in the In part this is a follow up on the material for the Friends Spring Gathering but also in preparation for our next Living Room Dialogue on George Herbert, but George Herbert’s poetry has been important to me for many years and when we left Windermere, after nine years as Rector of St Martin’s, Bowness-on-Windermere, a precious farewell gift from a friend, the poet/hymn writer, and Minister of the Windermere United Reformed Church Alan Gaunt was a hymn based on one of George Herbert’s poems. We will sing it at the coming Living room Dialogue.
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