In the cycles of the human condition, we connect and disconnect, we begin relationships and we end them, we are born and we die, we move in and out of each other’s lives all the time.  This condition will almost always mean that there will be suffering, but it also means that there can joy, happiness and ecstasy beyond words.

 

This will be a good day for us to reminisce about some of our relationships and our comings and goings in the past year. It is good for us to acknowledge and to accept all of our experiences, emotions and inspirations having to do with the yin and yang of living and being together.

 

Please join me in a conversation about dealing with both the wonderful warm feelings we experience when we are closest to one another and the grief we feel when we find each other coming apart or parting ways.  I have some advice to share, but more importantly we will have the kind of heart discussion that lets us know that everything is going to be okay.

 

Billy Thomas is our congregational lay minister and speaks to us monthly