There is something in each of us which is much deeper than a collection of events. This sermons tries to look beyond our personal and collective histories at our deeper essence. But if you stir the same teaspoon into a five gallon cistern, you hardly even taste it.
Life brings suffering.
There is no way to avoid it all. But we can enlarge the container. We can stretch our minds and hearts to include more and more. This does not remove the salt of misfortune. But it does make it taste less bitter.