Group Purpose:

Life Span:

Complete Info Sheets / Along the Road

Share Name, Occupation, How long in area, One other thing not on sheet. (1 min. per)

Listen to Stone Soup Reading

In what ways are we like the villagers?

Review Group Commitments and Kelvin’s Small Group Values

Discuss

Clarifications, additions, deletions

Come up with something we can all agree with

Add: Say here, stay here & Begin and end on time.

Initial reaction to the chapter?

(I felt, I realized, I wanted, I just didn’t get this…)

What do you understand the author’s use of "heart" to mean? (Can you relate to this?) [Emotions like dashboard lights, letting you know what’s happening under hood.]

P 6 Arts quote: Respond to that

Has anything moved you recently? Even brought you to tears?

What are some of your favorite movies?

What themes emerge? (Intimacy, beauty, and adventure? p 7)

"All real art comes from that deepest self – painting, writing, music, dance. Our truest prayers come from there too. And I think that from there also come our best dreams and our times of gladdest playing." - Buechner

Are you a more creative person now than in your youth? How? (Sing, play, paint dance, etc?)

If not, why? Do they seem frivolous to you?

How easy is it for you to "play?" When is the last time you did?

Does your spiritual life offer anything relevant to those deep yearnings of your hear? Or does it seem more like problems to be solved and principles to be mastered?

The things that move you (sunrises, songs, movies, etc.)… do they come through the activities of church and Bible study or do those stirrings come more often through other places (hobbies, adventures)?