Reinventing the Wheel

Today's address is given by The Rev. Nicholas Rundle, the Uniting Church Chaplain at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Nicholas reflects on today - Halloween, marked on the Christian calendar as "All Saints day" - or "All Souls day". As Nicholas's title might suggest, it's all about the "wheels, circles and cycles" of our lives.
Nicholas refers to that cyclic, repetitive wheel marked by "the breath, the tides, the seasons of the Moon and the tides (the highs and lows) of our human lives. He compares it to the outer rim and six spokes of the "wheel" icon our 7 Principles - a "reciprocity" radiating both inwards and outwards from that "sacred centre" of our Unitarian Universalist wheel - the human person, ourselves!
The relationships we have in this life reflect a higher and hidden cosmic order, cyclic in nature - to quote Bernard Kastrup: "a universal consciousness out of which the material world emerges for our comprehension".
It comes at a time when leaders, now meeting in Glasgow - will make globally significant decisions to reduce carbon emissions by "building bridges" that unite - rather than digging trenches that divide. Only this will secure the unifying rim of our wheel of our 7 UU Principles - "the interdependent web of all existence of which we are all a part". Bridges must reign supreme! Listen on for a very insightful address by Nicholas.