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. It’s an emotion, a deep-rooted sense of welcome and permanence and belonging. It’s the safe, intensely personal realm where you can permit yourself to throw off everything that isn’t fundamentally, essentially you. It’s a complex, messy stew of throat-catching slants of light, kitchen smells, and déjà vu. If you’re lucky and the place has been around for a while, it can connect you—through faint pencil marks on a doorjamb or a scrap of old wallpaper in a closet—with people you never knew. Some people have a home from childhood; others spend a lifetime looking for it. Once you recognize it, you’re bound to it forever—even 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 places—present 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?

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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 haven’t to deserve.” Robert Frost

This is the true nature of home—it 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