Thought for Contemplation: "The Living Tradition which we share draws from many sources: Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life...." UUA Bylaws Margaret Fuller, one of the leading Transcendentalists of the 1830’s & 1840’s, said this of nature and of the greater wholeness of which we are a part: All around us lies what we

I want to begin this morning with a story and a disclaimer. It is, most assuredly, a first world story (that’s the disclaimer!) and not particularly heady which, I can sometimes tend to be! But it does illustrate where I am going and perhaps you will relate. It has been almost a year now, but it still fresh in my mind, especially as we prepare to undertake a similar project! We had decided it was time to have some work done on the tiny bathroom that the second owners of t