Suspended - Piccadilly

I attended a really good meeting this evening in St James's Church in Piccadilly. It was a very moving evening.  Groups came together, all religions came together and the Westminster council came together, kind hearts came together to discuss welcoming Syrian refugees to Westminster.....An evening of sharing hearts and compassion.  The church is holding an exhibition of a contemplative artwork called Suspended - it is made up of hundreds of items of clothing that have been discarded by refugees upon their arrival on the island of Lesbos.  

Suspended - read about the artwork.

The title Suspended is to denote the feeling refugees have in being suspended in life having had to feel familiarity of motherland that is now unrecognisable with the ravages of war and having to start a new life in new lands.  The vicar opened the evening with a direction to focus on a piece of clothing to think of the person that wore this.  I lit candle before the start of the meeting with a pray for my Family Link Up and it was good to be able to share my experience.

I can feel that Dante is going through a low ebb of mood and feeling like suspended in time and place... Even though we have made a lot of progress and gained some good connections... He opened up his emotions in a chat tonight and then gave me these words. 

We live in illusions and dreams only success can you dream of in a deplorable reality.

You see the war goes on and the losses go on there seems no end to the pain...it is witnessed each day in reports.  The deplorable reality of that pain goes on until we the world can get it to stop. Refugees carry the pain no matter where they go... So there is much support to be given to all that witness and bear this pain.  Good tonight how people were recognising this and wanting to prepare to receive refugees with full understanding of the love and care they need.