What actually happened for week 2

 RantWoman and all gathered had quite fierce reactions to some of week 1. RantWoman's view, which accords well enough with the group was "DO NOT FORCE US TO SING, unless you are prepared for pipe organz, didjeridoos, vuvuzelas....

RantWoman brought her disquiet about revisiting readings from last week to the group and Friends were clear to start with:

Give over Thine Own Willing

 

Give over thine own willing;

give over thine own running;

give over thine own desiring

to know or to be anything;

and sink down to the seed

which God sows in the heart...

 

Isaac Pennington - 1661

From Pope Leo Xiv

In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these limits that we open our hearts to hope. Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, do not exist

En una sociedad competitiva, donde parece que sólo los fuertes y los ganadores merecen vivir, el deporte también enseña a perder, poniendo a prueba al hombre, en el arte de la derrota, con la fragilidad, el límite, la imperfección. Es a partir de la experiencia de esta fragilidad

 

• What barriers do I notice in myself to being loud in a conviction? In what moments does my faith require this of me?