No. 22 Friends

Facilitator______________
Date___________________

Group Session Plan from FUSN (by Barbara Bates)

Chalice/Candle Lighting

Opening Words:

"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
-- Henry Brooks Adams (Chap. 20 The Education of Henry Adams)

Check-in/Sharing

Topic:
Reflect on your friends and choose one very good friend (not necessarily your 'best' friend). Describe your friendship and how it developed.

What were the defining moments in the friendship?

What have you received from and what have you given to this friend?

Select the topic and location for the next meeting

Check-out / Likes and Wishes

Closing Words:

"We need one another when we would be comforted.
We need one another when we are in trouble and afraid.
We need one another when we are in despair, in temptation, and need to be recalled to our best selves again.
We need one another when we would accomplish some great purpose, and cannot do it alone.
We need one another in the hour of success, when we look for someone to share our triumphs.
We need one another in the hour of defeat, when with encouragement we might endure, and stand again.
We need one another when we come to die, and would have gentle hands prepare us for the journey.
All our lives we are in need, and others are in need of us."
George E. Odell -- Singing the Living Tradition #468