By Chalice Circle Facilitators

Our Monthly Spiritual Themes guide our Chalice Circles, which are small, intentional groups of members and friends that gather for spiritual enrichment through personal sharing. For more information on Chalice Circles, please email Linda Benson at chalicecircles@uuprinceton.org. Our Chalice Circle thoughts and questions around the theme of Acceptance this month are:

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” – Ann Landers

Have you ever felt a need to let go? If you have, in your experience, was it more difficult to let go or to hold on?

“Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.” – Jackie Robinson

Do you or have you ever felt a need to be accepted? If you did and no longer do, what changed?

“That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.” – Dan Brown

Have you ever had faith in anything that you had imagined but could not prove?
Why or why not?

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.” – Michael J. Fox

Have you ever felt an inverse relationship between your acceptance and expectations?
What is at the root of the correlation?