“This is the work of congregational life – to create and provide a real time and place in this world that opens our awareness of the world as it might be. It awakens us to the transformation already taking place within us and around us and strengthens our patience and determination to bring that transformation to fruition in the larger world. For as the maple tree invisibly produces sweetness within the fibers of its being, the world carries its own inner inclination toward justice and peace. May we then be willing to show up and do the work of tapping.” ~ Karen Hering