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A Guide to Rediscovering the Shared Meaning of Our Lives
Nancy Palmer Jones
This multiple-session program uses the book Life Lines: Holding On (And Letting Go) by Forrest Church (Beacon Press, 1996) to create conversation and communion as we search for answers to some of life's deepest questions.
How can we make peace with our morality and the death of those we love? How can we accept things that cannot be changed and change the things than can? How can we forgive ourselves and others? How can we gather the courage to overcome our fears? How can we connect with others to fashion a more just society, a more loving community?...Where can we find God in what may seem at times a godless world?...How is it that some people manage to conquer adveristy, while others are consumed by it?
Forrest Church
This guide suggests ways in which workshop leaders and participants can begin to explore some of life's deepest questions, and this very process of exploring in community offers the hope of experiencing some answers. Participants look at what it means to wake up to the fact that everyone must suffer grief and adversity, and together they will begin to discover the many ways -- love, humor, and compassion foremost among them -- in which this awareness can draw them deeper into the connections that make life worth living. Using the book Life Lines: Holding On (and Letting Go) by Forrest Church, as a jumping-off place, participants have the opportunity to share their own stories and to listen to others in a dialogue that joins them to each other and to the human family everywhere. A flexible design allows for two, four, eight or more sessions.
Life Lines and the Life Lines Leader's Guide are available from the UUA Bookstore.
