Learning To LOVE group
Set up to be weekly, because of Neil’s need for real connection with a group who really know him;
but
has become about once a month, because of the needs of young families
He asked 3 or 4 households to be willing to join with him and each other..
Commonly they have a meal with it or at least a morning tea or BBQ
Usually, they do
a brief grounding exercise ( couple of minutes, because people are coming from a frantic lives full of stressors) Breathing, sitting still tuning in…
Check in
Discussion or thought … e.g. How do live with a “crash & burn” of your model for approaching life? Or this week something by Thomas for mother's day…
Choose a facilitator for next week..
Often it is interrupted by children, as they are present, but not “run” by them. Often tears, as lives are shared deeply. Sometimes it is just a “check in” with cuppa.
They were starting to have such a group in a park (would they go to a coffee shop since is was lightly drizzling? I wondered) when Dave and I jumped in my car and headed towards Rocky.. in our own style of a "learning to love group", by focusing on a task bigger than our own comfortable feelings, to do a job bigger than our own desires, and to give time, effort, money to it, though walking through this land may seem a very small thing. On it's own it may be. But we need never live that kind of independently-lived life again, if creative love is really willing to share life with ordinary humans. Thank you for that sharing in reality, and for using even the breakdowns, rain, and many other difficulties that strew our lives, to be present with us, and not shirking the sharing of pain and loss and heart-break. Thanks in fact for leading the way, and teaching us how to walk into "the unknown". Thank you.
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