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Facilitator______________
Date___________________

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

Chalice/Candle Lighting

Opening Words:

"We clasp the hands of those that go before us,
And the hands of those who come after us.
We enter the little circle of each other’s arms
And the larger circle of lovers,
whose hands are joined in a dance.
And the larger circle of all creatures,
Passing in and out of life,
who move also in a dance,
To a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it
Except in fragments."
Wendell Berry -- Singing the Living Tradition #646

Check-in/Sharing

Topic:
Create a religious time line. Divide a line into sections, one for each of your decades of life, plus the decades you expect to live. Draw pictures for each decade representing how you understood God or felt about religion during each of those periods, plus how you hope to experience your religious life in the decades to come (20 minutes). Then share. (Materials: appropriate paper and crayons or colored pencils)

Select the topic and location for the next meeting

Check-out / Likes and Wishes

Closing Words:

"Take courage friends.
The way is often hard; the path is never clear,
and the stakes are high.
Take courage.
For deep down, there is another truth.
You are not alone."
Wayne Arnason

* Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Augusta, Maine