Creating a Life that Matters Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Session Three Shadows in the Valleys

Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Overview Opening Prayer Session Goal/Scripture/Quote Display of Our Life Maps Shadows in the Valleys Activity Small Group Sharing Teaching Segment: F E A R Four Buckets Activity & Large Group Debrief Homework Guided Meditation and Cleansing Ritual

Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Opening Prayer

Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Session Goal By the end of this session, we will realize that none of the “four basic fears” has the power to prevent us from following our passion.

Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Session Scripture For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice; but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 (NRSV) The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Session Quote Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It’s too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came, and he pushed, and they flew. Christopher Logue Christopher Logue, Selected Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 1996) 64.

Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Display of Our Life Maps!!

Shadows in the Valleys Activity Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Shadows in the Valleys Activity SMALL GROUP SHARING Share which peak or valley from your Life Map is most responsible for your passion as you understand it today. Discuss what the following means to you: “If you listen to your body when it whispers, you will never have to listen to it scream.” Jane Herman, “Powerful Ideas In Tiny Packages,” WITI Personal Growth, 18 Feb. 2008 <http://www.witi.com/growth/2005/quotes.php>.

Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Shadows in the Valleys Teaching and Class Activity

FEAR F alse E vidence A ppearing R eal Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion FEAR F alse E vidence A ppearing R eal

And sometimes FEAR means … Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion And sometimes FEAR means … F orget E verything A nd R un!

Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Fears Fears about our physical safety (survival) Fears about not having enough (scarcity) Fears about not being enough (unworthiness) Fears about success (power) Other fears (miscellaneous)

Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Homework Assignment Read Habakkuk and Big Mamma’s Quilt Begin The Tapestry Exercise on page 44

Guided Meditation and Cleansing Ritual Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion Guided Meditation and Cleansing Ritual Image URL www.javajane.co.uk/scenery2/bubble_water.jpg Source URL www.javajane.co.uk/scenery2/index.html All photos remain the copyright of JavaJane © Donations to the rectory Riding Stables welcome! www.rectoryridingstables.co.uk

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