No. 11 A Sacred Place

Facilitator______________
Date___________________

Group Session Plan from UUCCA* - Rev. Calvin O. Dame

Chalice/Candle Lighting

Opening Words:

Come out of the dark earth
Here where the minerals
Glow in their stone cells
Deeper than seed or birth.

Come into the pure air
Above all heaviness
Of storm and cloud to this
Light-possessed atmosphere.

Come into, out of, under
The earth, the wave, the air.

Love, touch us everywhere
With primeval candor.
May Sarton -- Singing the Living Tradition #428

Check-in/Sharing

Topic:
"There are places I remember, all my life..." Lennon/McCartney
We all have places that have been important in our lives, and remain significant in our memories. Ask participants first to recall a special or sacred place from the past, to reflect on it's importance in their lives and then to draw a picture of that place, including in-as-much as they can those details which make the memory rich. Then share.

Select the topic and location for the next meeting

Check-out / Likes and Wishes

Closing Words:

Beauty is before me, and
Beauty behind me, above me and below me hovers the beautiful.
I am surrounded by it,
I am immersed in it.
In my youth, I am aware of it, and, in old age,
I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail.
In beauty it is begun.
In beauty, it is ended.
From the Navajo Indians of North America -- Singing the Living Tradition #682

* Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Augusta, Maine