No. 24 Memory

Facilitator______________
Date___________________

Group Session Plan from FUSN ( developed by Bill Horne and Bob Zeeb)

Chalice/Candle Lighting

Opening Words:

Give us the courage and compassion to hear the memories of others with care. Help us be a community of memory and hope – one that seeks to be present for and honor the truth of each others memories, May we find ways for our stories to heal and bring us peace.

Adapted from a sermon by Jennifer Schnayer
First Unitarian Church, Portland, Oregon

Check-in/Sharing

Topic:
If it is, indeed, important to share memories in our community, how do we do this work? And how do we do it with care? What does it mean to hear with care or to be heard with care? And how do we honor the truth of a memory when all memories are at some level mythic in nature, distortions of what really happened? Think of a memory that you have shared, or that you want to share, and reflect on how the sharing of it may be a part of your healing.

Select the topic and location for the next meeting

Check-out / Likes and Wishes

Closing Words:

Memory is such a strange, powerful and magical thing. Like a reflection from beneath the waves, it takes on shapes of its own, conveying and at the same time distorting, stretching, pulling and giving life to the things of the past. Memory is the sacred act of human imagining. Transient, full of holes, and yet at the same time memory is the beaded cloth covering our loneliness, giving us protection, and revealing the ways of compassion.

James Ishmael Ford