“Courageous Rebirth”

We do teach ourselves to come back to life, don’t we? We remind ourselves, and our neighbors, that both joy and meaning can return from seeming oblivion – that we can return to living with hope. A few years ago George Saunders published a special book titled Lincoln in the Bardo that explored grief and regret in a powerful way. This morning I’ll put this story into conversation with Unitarian Universalist faith traditions and explore how ‘rebirth’ happens.