Closing

Part of The Wi$dom Path, Adults: Money, Spirit, and Life

Activity time: 5 minutes

Materials for Activity

Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED/battery-operated candle
Taking It Home handout
A copy of Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook

Preparation for Activity

Customize Taking It Home and make copies for all participants.

Description of Activity

Distribute Taking It Home. If you did not distribute Handout 1 in Activity 3, do so now for participants to take home. Ask everyone to form a circle and join hands. Invite each participant to name one idea or feeling they will take from the time together. Share these closing words from Henry David Thoreau:

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.