Aim 
To risk seeing, living life more fully, as the gift of God. 

Focal Point 
An array of postcards that shows life in all its richness and diversity.  

Leader's Introduction 
Invite people, in a period of quiet, to think and reflect on these questions in turn and after each to have sharing as a listening, not discussion group, without comment. 

• If you had to tell someone what you think of life at the moment, what symbols or words would you use? 
• If you knew you were to die within the next three months, what unfinished business would you be taking care of, especially with regard to relationships? 
• Would you re-prioritise things in your life? 
• Why would you need to be "terminal" before re-prioritising things in your life? 
• In the light of the foregoing, how do these words from St John's Gospel resonate within you? "I am come that you might have life, life in all its fullness."  
• Do these words change anything for you?

And tell me, what will you do with your one, wild and precious life?
The leader can select from the following material (prepared sheets will help). 

• Describe yourself at your best. 
• What meaning does life currently have for you? 
• What are the situations which bring out the best in you and make you feel more fully alive? 
• What do you love passionately? 
• What will be your legacy of love, that which you will have passed on?  
• In relationships? 
• In the Church? 
• In the wider world? 

Sharing as listening, not discussion group, without comment. 

Invite people to reflect in a period of quiet on their own responses, and those of others who shared, and then to address these questions: 

If you were to be in touch with what you deeply want and desire, for God and yourself ...

• Describe yourself at your best. 
• What would you see as your life's meaning? 
• What would be the situations that would bring out the best in you, and make you feel more fully alive? 
• What would you love passionately? 
• What would you see as your legacy of love, that which you will have passed on? 
• In relationships? 
• In the Church? 
• In the wider world? 

Prayerfully reflect on what adjustments you might realistically make to begin to bring about your deepest desire, and so help you become more fully and authentically human. 

Sharing as listening, not a discussion group, without comment.

Prayer Exercise 
In living out your giftedness in the service of God's people imagine each "living out", bringing a deep sense of gratitude to the heart of God for sharing yourself. And surely a smile to the face of God. Pray out of this. 

Worth Pondering
"The only sin is an unlived life." (John O'Donohue)
"Life is huge, enjoy it all." (Unknown) 
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and do that. What the world needs is people who have come alive." (Howard Thurman)
"The soul is capable of much more than we can imagine." (Teresa of Avila)