Covenant Group meeting Tuesday, January 28, 700pm - Susan & Frank’s House
Gather in circle with empty chair
Check-in / Sharing
Administrivia
Opening Reading - Sue Halpern
Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.
Discussion Topic – Trust
What are your feelings about trust?
Trust of self, other, world (government, community, leader), universe?
What experience/perceptions do you trust?
What does it feel like if someone you THOUGHT trusted you, doesn’t?
What does letting go have to do with trust?
Final Responses / Check-out
Closing Words – Michael A. Schuler
Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the servant of truth.
Question your convictions, for beliefs too tightly held strangle the mind and its natural wisdom.
Suspect all certitudes, for the world whirls on -- nothing abides.
Yet in our inner rooms full of doubt, inquiry and suspicion, let a corner be reserved for trust.
For without trust there is no space for communities to gather or for friendships to be forged.
Indeed, this is the small corner where we connect -- and reconnect -- with each other.