No. 55 Zest for Living

Facilitator______________
Date___________________

Group Session Plan from FUSN (developed by Bill Horne)

Chalice/Candle Lighting

Opening Words:

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men and women never loose the zest for living even though their life situation is zest1ess. The cowardly, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, loose the will to live. We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the floods of fear.
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr

Check-in/Sharing

Topic/Activity:
In a sense, King’s words are a challenge to all of us not just to be courageous but to hold on to our youthful zest for living. How have you faced this challenge? How would you describe yourself at this point in time to the twenty-one year old in your past? If you do not wish to do this, simply focus directly on your successes and failures in recreating your zest for living.

Select the topic and location for the next meeting

Check-out / Likes and Wishes

Closing Words:

Standing. . . on the threshold of this College, girt and ready to go and assume tasks, public and private, . . . you will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name. ‘What is the Truth you seek? What is this Beauty?’ men will ask, with derision. If, nevertheless, God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true. When you shall say, ‘As others do, so will I: I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions; I must eat the good of the land, and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season;’ _then dies the man in you; then once more perish the buds of art, and poetry, and science, as they have died already in a thousand, thousand men. The hour of that choice is the crisis of your history; and see that you hold yourself fast by the intellect. . . [in this moment].
Ralph Waldo Emerson