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PART
TWO
Tracking the Spirit Within
The Community
Meeting 8: Finding God in My
Family
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Opening prayer:
Music, Scripture (Luke 15:11-32), poetry,
environment.
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Check-in:
How am I feeling as I begin
this meeting? (10 minutes total)
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Theme
(read aloud): Family is the
fundamental community. It is the place through which one’s
salvation is received. It is a place of ecstasy and agony. There
is the pleasure of married love and the commitment to fidelity.
There is the hope for children’s growth and the disappointment of
childhood failure. There is the hope for family improvement and
the hopelessness of financial burden. There is the joy of family
companionship and the face of illness and death. Stress and
struggles are the circumstances of family life. In them God is
most easily found. In faith, struggle is transformed into gift. In
faith, God is seen in all of family life.
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Reflection
(facilitator read): Do I find
God in my family? Has it always been this way? When has God been
most present to me in it? When was God hardest to find?
Short silence (2-3 min)
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Sharing
(facilitator introduce): What
struck me in this reflection? + + + After the sharings,
members may add anything else they wish, or ask for feedback from
the group. Close with a brief prayer.
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Break
(15 minutes, optional)
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Open conversation
& questions
about
matters of interest and concern.
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Preview next topic
to pray over in
preparation for the next meeting.
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Business:
Place for next meeting,
facilitator, prayer leader, other issues.
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Review of meeting:
How was I moved during this
meeting? Where did I feel positive energy? Where discomfort?
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Closing prayer
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Social
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