No. 57 Home
Facilitator______________
Date___________________
Group Session Plan from FUSN (developed by Holly Zeeb)
Chalice/Candle Lighting
Opening Words:
Home is much more than a building or a piece of ground. Its an emotion, a deep-rooted sense of welcome and permanence and belonging. Its the safe, intensely personal realm where you can permit yourself to throw off everything that isnt fundamentally, essentially you. Its a complex, messy stew of throat-catching slants of light, kitchen smells, and déjà vu. If youre lucky and the place has been around for a while, it can connect youthrough faint pencil marks on a doorjamb or a scrap of old wallpaper in a closetwith people you never knew. Some people have a home from childhood; others spend a lifetime looking for it. Once you recognize it, youre bound to it forevereven if it sits in an extreme locale. Even if it disappears.
Dwight Young
Be thou thine home, and in thy self dwell.
John Donne
Check-in/Sharing
Topic/Activity:
What does home mean to you? Is it a place, or placespresent or past? Perhaps the experience and meaning of home for you is more connected with persons than with place. Or is home a state of mind, a place you can access anywhere you are, even in solitude? Has the meaning, the actuality, or the experience of home changed for you over time?
Select the topic and location for the next meeting
Check-out
Closing Words:
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. I should have called it /Something you somehow havent to deserve. Robert Frost
This is the true nature of homeit is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division. John Ruskin
The common objects of the world have a kind of half-life. . . if we are lucky, we retain those sensations that we were given in our youth, those moments in which we felt exposed, brilliantly irradiated by our surroundings. We remember feeling the energetic emanations of those old places entering our bones, our marrow, and changing us forever.
Michael Byers