An address given by Reverend Geoffrey Usher to the Spirit of Life Unitarian Fellowship.
Do you have a cardboard box of “good stuff”? Do you have a box which is what you’ll grab to take with you if your house ever catches on fire? Do you have a worn paper bag of bits and pieces – “love in a paper sack”?
Think back over the years. Are you aware of any sins of omission – of failures to seize opportunities which you might now be ready to grasp – failures to see what was really there – what was really being offered to you in the equivalent of Robert Fulghum’s daughter’s tattered lunchbag?
Are you aware – or prepared to admit – that you may have rejected, through sheer insensitivity, goodness only knows how many tentative offerings of open-hearted trust?
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