 Well, I think that's something you ought to be sure you're ready to put in your pocket. Right. You know, in a personal event, I just don't want you to do it. You don't want to put it in your pocket. That's a nice thing to do. Definitely. Definitely. I got it. Also, I think that you should probably put it in your pocket, instead of you sell a shot at the ones that you sell. I think I want some, I can't find a place to put it. You have to start putting all the extra things in your pocket. I didn't realize I could change it. I don't know why. I can't put it in your pocket. You can't put it in your pocket. You can't put it in your pocket. You don't want to put it in your pocket. You don't want to put it in your pocket. Yeah, sure. You can see where it could be selling your phone. Do you want to do that? I'm sorry. Who's speaking? Oh no. Oh gosh. You might be in the wrong step. I'll give you everything. Of course. I can't put it in your pocket. I just don't think you can put it in your pocket. Yeah. It's too easy, I'll try. Testing, one, two, is it coming out of there? I think it is coming out of there. It's coming out of there. Please join me in a few moments of centering silence. And now please remain seated and join in singing our in-gathering hymn found in your order of service. Good morning and welcome to the first Unitarian Universalist Society of Madison. In this community, curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical, and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian Universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual as together we seek to become a force for good in the world. My name is Carlos Moser, a long-standing and faithful member of this congregation, on behalf of which I wish to extend a special welcome to visitors. We consider ourselves a welcoming congregation, so however you identify yourself, wherever you find yourself on your life journey, we celebrate your presence among us. We encourage newcomers to stay for our fellowship hour after the service to visit the library, which is directly across. We welcome children to stay for the service, but if the child needs to talk or move around, we recommend the Child Haven just behind you, on the left, for the commons as good places to visit, where you can still hear and see the service. And speaking of noise, please take time right now to silence all electronic devices that might cause a disturbance during the hour. Now I take pleasure in welcoming the following individuals who help our service run smoothly. The tour guide, as I mentioned, will be Pamela McMillan, who also was your greeter. For hospitality and the drinks behind us, Lois Evanson. The ushers are Gail Bliss and John Woods. For sound, we had David Bryles helping us, and our lame minister is Tom Boykoff. Thank them and consider volunteering yourself. You may ask any of them how to do so. Please note the following announcement, besides what you find in the red floors. This is about solar panels. Putting solar panels on your home is a great way to lower your energy costs. And you get to switch to a clean renewable energy source that you can feel good about for years to come. This summer, the Madison Solar Group is bringing together Madison Area residents to install solar at their homes for a negotiated low price. This free event at the historic First Unitarian Society will cover everything you need to know about going solar at your home. Solar energy fundamentals, how much it costs, tax credits and incentives, and answers to common questions. Bring a friend. Our speaker today is Nancy Wetter-Schultz, a longtime member of this society. You often see her as a member of the three Sopranos or in the Society Choir. In 2013, Nancy was named one of the wisdom keepers of the goddess spirituality movement, alongside with such luminaries as Alice Walker, Starhawk, Lynn Andrews, and Sue Monk Kidd. As a theological columnist for Sage Woman magazine, and blogger for Tycoon Daily and Feminism and Religion, she has offered spiritual growth, keynotes, workshops and classes since 1987. Nancy honed her speaking and workshop skills in the emerging field of women's studies at the UW Madison from 1975 to 1991. Her muse then nudged her out of academia to record Chants for the Queen of Heaven, with the help of a feminist theology award from the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation. Nancy is a writer, educator, workshop facilitator, and musician, whose work has focused on empowerment and spiritual growth. She is most recently the author of The World is Your Oyster. I'm sorry. Obviously that was in her mind when she had the wonderful title The World is Your Oracle, and I think you will find pearls of wisdom inside. It is published by Fairwinds Press in April of this year. She will be speaking about her new book today and offering an FUS class on it in October. She also asked me to tell you that she has started blogging about The World is Your Oracle, offering oracular tips and history. So if you already own The World is Your Oracle and have not signed the mailing list for the book, please come to her table in the commons and sign up. Again, a warm welcome. We hope today's service will stimulate your mind, touch your heart, expand your understanding, and stir your sluggish spirit. Our opening words today are from In lieu of Flowers by Nancy Cobb. A wisdom as constant as the North Star shines within all of us. It's always present, waiting to be tapped, waiting to guide us to advise us. We need only use it to prevent its atrophy. No matter what our background, profession, color, or religion, employing this universal compass, this innate sense of what we know to be true, will help us establish a lifelong foundation, a place we go to recover our sanity and to regain our balance. And now please rise and body your spirit for the lighting of the chalice. You'll notice that it's a responsive reading, so please read the bold words. Let us worship with our eyes and ears and fingertips. We feed our eyes upon the mystery and revelation in the faces of our brothers and sisters. Let us worship not in bowing down, not with closed eyes and stopped ears. Let us worship with the opening of all the windows of our beings and with the full outstretching of our spirits. And while you're still standing, please exchange friendly greetings with your neighbors. So please be seated for the sharing of joys and concerns. Once a month, we generally set aside a few minutes at the first part of the hour for the sharing of joys and sorrows. As Michael always reminds us, this is a time for members, friends, and visitors in the congregation to relate to the entire gathered community, some special event or circumstance that has affected your life or the life of someone close to you. General announcements, news items, and partisan appeals are discouraged. For the next several minutes, anyone who wishes is invited to step to the front of the auditorium and light a candle in one of the two candelabras on either side of the pulpit. Then using the microphone that's provided by Tom Boykoff, our lay minister, please share your name, if that feels comfortable, and a brief message. Please note that our services are broadcast, so listeners are not restricted just to these people who are sitting here. You may also wordlessly light a candle of commemoration and simply return to your seat. And I'd actually like to begin our sharing of joys and sorrows because I've had two births that have affected my life recently. The first one you're going to hear a lot about today, the birth of my new book, The World is Your Oracle. But the second one is probably even more significant to Mark and me because we just had the birth of our first grandchild, Leo Linden Steinman, who is now five weeks old. Mark and I had the privilege of spending the first two weeks of his life with him and even though we did an awful lot, Mark fixed everything in that house. And we cooked, we cleaned, we made sure that Linnea took a walk since she had a C-section, so she needed to carefully get back into her health again. But she's doing very fine because she's a yogi. But I think we got more out of it than they did because we got to be right inside that love bubble that they created. They also have head over heels in love with their son. So thank you for indulging me in that. And now we need a microphone so that people who want to share their joys and sorrows will be able to do that. And if you would come to the front of the congregation, Sean will be grabbing a microphone very soon. We'll get this together. No one seems to be an issue today, but not any longer. Thank you, Sean. It's on? Okay. I'm Karen and I have a very big joy. My brother and his partner, Glenn and Dan, are legally married now and we're all very excited. Congratulations, Karen. My name's John Woods. Two weeks ago today, our youngest daughter, Lindsey, had her first child, a little boy named Garrett Christopher Schlageter. They live in Denver. We were out there. I was out there for a week. My wife was out there for two weeks helping, doing exactly the same things that Nancy and Mark were doing. And it's our sixth grandchild, but it's our daughter's first child. And the first grandchild we've had in a while, and he's a great little guy. Congratulations. And I'm very proud of my oldest son who's in his 20s and he's just moved into a management position for a company that he's been working for for a few years. Thank you. I'm Tim Harrington. I'd like us to take a moment to acknowledge the passing in the life of Sherry Mables. Sherry was a friend of our families, and many of you know she was prominent in this community for decades as a leader in the policing, as a Buddhist teacher, as a member of the LGBT community, and as a friend and a confidant to many, including my sister Eileen. So she passed this last week, some of you know, and she was one of the best among us. Thank you. I'm Elizabeth. I have a joy. My mother celebrated her 86th birthday, I was there along with both of my sisters, and my younger sister, she's been engaged for eight years. In my family, we do long engagements. Well, she's going to get married this fall. She's going to do it. My name is Neil Gruber. Tomorrow, the 31st of August, the 7th, year after the passing, I'm like one of the members of this family. In addition to those just shared, we also acknowledge all of those unspoken joys and sorrows that remain among us. As a community of concern and caring, we hold these in our hearts as well. Let's sit silently for a few moments in the spirit of empathy and hope. And so, by virtue of our brief time together, may our burdens be lightened and our joys expanded. And now you may rise and body your spirit for the singing of hymn number 184, Be Lamps Unto Yourself. And this is when the children leave for summer fun, so we will sing this three times through. You may now be seated. So today, I'm going to be reading from my book, The World is Your Oracle. And this is mostly from the introduction. From the ancient Greeks to modern-day North Americans, people from cultures all over the globe have gained insight into many questions by using oracles. These divinatory practices have been performed at times when significant decisions have been needed to be made, to establish new capitals, to choose religious leaders, to create inventions, to dig wells, to write poetry and music as well. But more importantly, they can help any person in their daily life to stay happy and healthy. So first, what are oracles? An oracle is simply a technique for uncovering an answer to a question. If you're stumped by a situation or by the behavior of a person in your life, an oracle can help you to understand the problem. If you can't figure out how to proceed when it comes to crucial decisions at work or at home, an oracle can give you guidance. These divinatory practices reveal guideposts for your life by helping you to tap into your unconscious mind where your inner wisdom resides. After all, your conscious mind, your conscious analytical mind, only has access to the tip of the iceberg when it comes to your thoughts and your experience, but your unconscious contains much more below the surface of your daily mindset. It's a storehouse of hunches, feelings, instincts, and all sorts of knowledge that you can access through divination. It's the font of your memories, your creativity, and your intuition. So how do oracles foster wisdom in your life? Every day, we're bombarded by advertising messages, expert advice, campaign promises, and opinions of every sort. Sometimes, it's hard to hear ourselves think. Instead, we need to listen to what Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs calls the whisperings of intuition. According to Jobs, these are wise flashes of inspiration that will help us to be successful in an environment of rapid change where analytical thinking no longer suffices. In fact, a gathering of 1,500 CEOs from all over the globe recently identified these types of creative insights as the best strategy for dealing with a world that's volatile, uncertain, and complex. Recent studies also show that to a large degree, we reach our decisions unconsciously. Our unconscious mind constantly monitors our external and internal environments, and when it judges the information gathered to be important enough, it engages the conscious mind, and we become consciously aware of something. Oracles can put us in touch with our unconscious wisdom sooner, so we don't have to wait out those times when our analytical mind is stuck in a rut. On a more personal level, I've found that good oracles put me in touch with myself. It lets you discover your motivations, your feelings, and your thoughts about any question that you're exploring. It also helps by alerting you to your hidden wishes and fears, those aspects of your personality that might sabotage your conscious choices unless you take them into account. Once you're aware of the beliefs that are operating beneath the surface of your mind, you can factor them into your decisions just like any conscious thought. Oracles can guide your life with a sure hand when you flounder. They can help you set priorities, meet challenges, and find creative solutions to your problems. At times, a divination can even point to an outworn habit that you need to discard or can encourage you to take a risk that you might be too timid to do alone. Oracles can provide information that you need, warn you of possible dangers, and inspire your professional and creative work. The world is your oracle, from which I'm reading, invites you to tap into your inner wisdom in a variety of ways. For instance, you can read the patterns in the stars. Or you can listen to a fire as it sings while it burns. Or you can flip open a book and read the first phrase that catches your eye. While writing this book, I opened a nearby volume and read, Listen to the cry of your own heart. Something wonderful is being said. I loved that. So finally, I think we all long to be touched by something greater than ourselves, and divination provides that experience. The ultimate aim of divination is exactly that, to open us to the sense of wonder in our lives. Our lives can be imbued with a richer significance as a result of being brushed by the mystery of divination, as we experience ourselves in relation to something larger than our own routine lives. It can create an ongoing awareness of the adventure of our lives, open at any moment to our inner knowing and the wisdom of the universe. So endeth the reading. And right now, I think we are singing a hymn, are we not? Because I don't have my... Oh, we have special music, wonderful. That was lovely. We are so lucky with the music in this congregation. So while I'm talking today about blurring the lines between the sacred and the secular and the science of divination, Sean is going to be putting some pictures up on the board behind me, which are the paintings that my daughter did to illustrate the divination techniques that are in the book. Enjoy them. So I was raised in a medical family. My dad was a veterinarian, and my mother was a nurse. They were scientists at heart, and they had a thirst for learning. As a result, I grew up believing that rationality was the sole source of wisdom and that education was the pathway to get there. But in my 20s, I began to have mystical experiences that I couldn't explain rationally. At that time in my life, I certainly didn't consider myself psychic, and I still don't. But I began to realize that everyone has intuitive experiences, and so I set out to discover how to develop my own intuition. As strange as it may sound, I began by reading tarot cards during my most rational period when I was studying to become a PhD about 40 years ago. I approached the cards from a fairly logical point of view, regarding them as a sort of psychological roar-shark test for questions that stumped me. In retrospect, this was my first step towards comprehending insight triggers, those experiences that can precipitate understanding, and how also we co-create our interpretations of oracles in our lives by coming up with associations that make sense to us. Spending time with other practitioners of defination, I was introduced to more open-ended and therefore more advanced, irracular techniques that depended on accessing the wellspring of my intuition through a state of inward focus. I also began to realize that people use different senses to access their inner wisdom, the most predominant among them, the visual, the auditory, and the kinesthetic. And if you have my book, you know, that's the major distinctions that I make. The divinations are categorized by whether they're visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. And eventually, I started to create my own irracular techniques based on my own experience of divination. And the ultimate result is the world is your oracle, which I'm speaking about today, a compilation of 40 multicultural divinatory techniques for tapping your inner wisdom. In North America, many people associate divination with either ancient religions or the occult. And traditionally, this concept of divination has been mostly conjured up an image of an old woman with her playing cards trying to foretell people's futures, their fortunes. And we don't have to search very far to discover the reason for our dominant notions about divination. The first definition in most English dictionaries states that it's a practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge using occult or supernatural means. From my perspective, this is an archaic distinction and an archaic definition because it's based on one that was created during a time when we drew sharper distinctions between the everyday and the mysterious, the natural and the supernatural. Instead, I define divination as the active use of our intuition, employing a variety of methods for getting in touch with their inner knowing. Now, Sears and Sages have done exactly that for centuries, perhaps even millennia. They've known that in order to answer questions that baffled them, they had to let go of their narrow, habitual responses to the situations and people around them as well as to the questions that they faced. To do this, they often performed divinations. And in the mental state created by divination, new ideas popped into their awareness. These adepts were the first to perfect what we now call thinking outside the box. With breakthroughs in modern technology, we now know why. Research has begun to shed light on how divination acts to facilitate aha moments, those creative insights that seem to come out of the blue to spontaneously come to us. Brain imaging studies using electroencephalograms, EEGs, and functional magnetic resonance imagery that's fMRIs, have shown that these flashes of insight occur when a person's brain is in a particular state, and this is exactly the state of mind that divination facilitates. So in order to understand these eureka moments, we need to step back for a moment and notice how our mind normally works. Neuroscientists have discovered that every idea stored in the brain has associations with other thoughts, so that each thought calls to mind the next and the next until you have a stream of consciousness. Some of these associations are remote and therefore unlikely to come to mind. We call these associations unconscious. In contrast, many associations are almost automatic, and we call them conscious thought. When we're in our normal mindset using our conscious analytical mind, our thoughts remain wedded to our most obvious associations, associations from our experience, from our reading and our assumptions about how the world works. Most of the time, this mental box that's created by these seemingly self-evident associations allows us to anticipate and understand our lives rapidly. It's sort of like a triage system for prioritizing what the likelihood of meaning is in any particular situation. But these habitual associations also limit our thinking, sometimes causing tunnel vision. This can be detrimental when we're presented with new challenges in our lives. When we become stuck in our thinking, that's when we need an aha moment or a divination to free our thoughts. Then our minds can associate with the more remote ideas that are found in the unconscious, allowing new understandings to surface into our conscious awareness. So how does this work? The most recent research demonstrates that aha moments happen when two conditions are met. First, there has to be a burst of alpha wave activity called the brain blink. This sudden increase of alpha waves in the occipital lobe of the brain, which is the vision processing lobe of the brain at the back of your brain, diverts awareness from a person's surroundings and reduces mental distractions. And what happens then is what scientists call optimal inattention. Optimal inattention allows the brain to ignore the noise that's always present in your mind so that you can become aware of less obvious unconscious thoughts. Thanks to this neural diversion, novel ideas can bubble up into your awareness. This experience is essentially similar to the situation when somebody asks you a difficult question. Very often you might look away or close your eyes and glancing to one side allows you to avoid extraneous factors like the face of the person who is interrogating you. The brain does exactly the same thing. When you're asked something challenging, an answer might already be activated at an unconscious level, but there's so much noise and distraction that you can't retrieve it unless you have a brain blink to get rid of those distractions. So if we survey divination techniques from around the world, we find that they operate in a similar manner. The state in which divination takes place, sometimes meditative, sometimes euphoric, and sometimes characterized by brain wave entrainment, which I'll talk about later when I talk about drumming, is in each case distinguished by alpha waves in the occipital lobe of the brain, exactly where the brain blink happens. In addition, the very techniques of inward focus that are fostered by divination are designed to suppress or ignore unnecessary sensations or information. In other words, they create optimal inattention. The wisdom keepers of the world realized this long ago. They knew that in order to tap into their inner knowing, they had to take a walk in the woods, or meditate, or drum, or dance ecstatically. All techniques that actually I have included in the world is your oracle. In other words, scientists have discovered that the ancient and indigenous seers have always known this truth. The glare of the external world can block insight. So the second mental condition that characterizes an aha moment or a successful divination occurs when a spark of insight flashes from the unconscious into the conscious mind. On EEG and fMRI scans, this burst of activity happens in the right temporal lobe of the brain, directly above the right ear, right here. The brain's right hemisphere, where these flashes of insight occur, has been shown to be the major origin for creative thoughts. And the reason for this is that it has much larger number of associations with any concept or problem. So with the help of the alpha waves and the optimal inattention that the brain blink creates, the brain sets aside the left hemisphere's habitual and boxed-in thinking so that it can tune into the alternate interpretations from the right hemisphere of the mind and therefore think outside the box. While science is just beginning to chart these flashes of insight in the brain, people all over the world have been using divination for a very long time. So let's look at some of the wide variety of techniques that ancient and indigenous folks have used for a regular insight and that I've included in The World is Your Oracle to see how they work. So the first one is shamanic journeying. This is an indigenous technique until recently. Indigenous traditions, the world over, perform shamanic journeys as a means of divination. And 30 years ago anthropologist Michael Harner reexamined these divinatory practices and discovered many similarities among the various traditions, rapid drumming, ritual dance, as well as communication with the person's power animal or spirit guide. He distilled these methods into an irracular technique that's now called core shamanism and it's a practice that now has thousands of proponents all over North America. Taking a shamanic journey is an imaginative process, like daydreaming. You close your eyes, you become relaxed, and you drift off into another world. The steady heartbeat rhythm of shamanic drumming helps you to float into this altered state of mind. And in this mindset you imagine a world that's now known among core shamanism practitioners as the lower world. There's also the upper world, but in my book I only incorporated the shamanic journey to the lower world. Here you meet a creature of some sort who becomes your spirit helper. Often called your power animal, this being will escort you on an adventure to help you find insight into your irracular question. From a scientific point of view, this technique works because first of all, it separates you from your everyday perspective from your normal, analytical mindset. Visiting another realm in your imagination, especially one that transports you so far from your everyday life, can dissipate thoughts that have become fixated in your mind. These are those automatic thoughts once again. This is what science calls fixation forgetting. So thinking is almost always associated with the context in which you have these thoughts. So for instance, you're upstairs and you go, oh, I've got to go find that iPhone downstairs. And you walk down the stairs and by the time you get to the living room, you've forgotten what it was you were going for. But when you go back upstairs, you remember, oh, it was my cell. So in the same way, changing your context by getting away from your normal haunts can help you overcome your obvious first thoughts in order to tap into the more obscure answers to your question. And once you've left that habitual judgment and assessment behind, you can think more outside of the box. So that's the first way that shamanic journeying works from a scientific perspective. When you call on a spirit helper to guide your divination, you also enlarge your thinking from the small personal point of view that you usually carry around with you to include a larger perspective of the numinous as well. So seeing this bigger picture, in this case perhaps the biggest picture, is another scientifically proven practice that induces flashes of insight. It's one of the best ways to notice interconnecting pieces that make up your puzzle, even those that seem unimportant. So that's the second way, the bigger picture leading to larger thinking, broadening your thinking. And similarly to dreaming, the shamanic journey also involves a semi-conscious state of inward reflection in which novel ideas can be incubated from an irracular question. Science now shows us that this type of unconscious incubation is what generates insights since hidden relationships brought from the unconscious into the forefront of the mind are the material from which these sudden realizations are drawn. Incubation involves taking time away from your problem and the further away you get the better. The easiest way to incubate a question or an oracle is by sleeping on your question and coming up with a dream that answers it, which is also a technique in the world as your oracle. But you can also take a short break from consciously considering a problem that has you stumped by taking a walk in the woods, for instance, or in this case by journeying to the lower world. So some divinations and their methodology have just one means of gaining insight. During this shamanic journeying, there are three scientifically proven means of eliciting your deeper knowing, changing your context, which leads to fixation forgetting, broadening your attention, and therefore broadening your thinking and incubation. So let's look at a second divination practice and see how it functions from a scientific viewpoint. Candle oracles have existed since antiquity. Depending on how the candle was used, the ancients called these divinations capnamancy, which is watching for signs in the patterns made by the candle's smoke. Saramancy, which is dripping melted wax into cold water, and then interpreting the images that are created in this way. And lichnoscopy, which is noticing the appearance, color, and movements of a candle's flame. So candle magic historically has been found in Jewish and Christian contexts, especially in the Middle Ages. You find it all over Asia, for instance, today in Tibet. And in the United States, you can find it in African American hoodoo practices. In the world as your oracle, I decided to incorporate a candle divination that I created. It's called light illumines your inner well. And in order to discover deeper insight with this technique, you relax in a warm bath and let the candle light that's reflecting off the water mesmerize you into a state of mind with greater openness to your inner knowing. It's probably the most sensual divination in my book. It's really yummy. Light illumines your well, uses sensory restriction actually in three different ways to allow the person who's undertaking the oracle to look inward. The running water produces a type of white noise that blocks other sounds from being heard. The warmth of the water makes it difficult for you to feel the boundaries of your body, and the dim lighting limits your vision. The most recent research demonstrates that all three of these ways of restricting the senses can induce a very powerful pull towards deep receptivity. Once again, the inner focus that's needed for a good oracle or an aha moment. In each case, the sensory restriction cuts you off from your environment and draws your focus inward. So the last technique I'd like to look at is drumming. I promised you this earlier. It's also included in the world as your oracle, and people everywhere all over the world have literally tapped into their inner wisdom using these rhythm instruments in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and both North and South America. In fact, the first discovery of drumming's oracular properties probably occurred within shamanic circles in the Paleolithic era. Shamans from Asia and the Americas used drums and they continue to use them today to transcend ordinary consciousness in order to travel to the spirit world for divinatory guidance. Tom Keepers, a Cochiti drum maker, says, and I quote, To consult the drum, present your question to the drum and then play in a steady beat until it provides an answer. It's that simple and that profound. This rhythmic technique uses what some people call brainwave entrainment in order to create a semi-conscious state of inward focus. Entrainment can be defined as synchronizing the body's rhythms from some sort of outside rhythm. And consistent rhythmic stimuli like those of a fast-beating drum can synchronize the brain's waves to those same rhythms, inducing a deeply relaxing state of altered consciousness. A recent study by Barry Quinn, Ph.D., demonstrates that even a brief drumming session can double alpha wave brain activity. And as we've seen, such alpha wave activity can lead to an aha moment or an irracular insight. So you know, often when you reach out to an irracular technique for answers, you're feeling frustrated or upset about the issue that faces you. Usually you're stuck in some way. Divination allows your mood to lighten and helps you to become more peaceful since it eliminates extraneous thoughts concerning your query. This is perhaps the most important thing that I learned from recent scientific research. You need to have a positive mood in order to get beyond your fixed ideas. Anxiety keeps you analytical, so you have to have a positive mood. So my suggestion is smile, because research in the past has already shown that smiling leads to a happier mood. And the recent EEG and FMRI studies demonstrate that positive emotions like joy, tranquility, or love facilitate aha moments. As I say in my divination workshops, it's important to warmly anticipate that insight will come to you. So let go of your anxieties and find that anticipatory glow in the outcome of your oracle. Or to quote Bobby McFerrin, In every life there is some trouble when you worry you make it double, don't worry, be happy. So now we will take the offertory. And this community, I think, means a lot to all of us, so give generously. That was beautifully chime-like. Thank you, Linda, and thank you, Chime Choir, for the beautiful music today. And now we will sing our closing hymn, number 348, Guide My Feet. And you may be seated for the benediction and the postlude. We receive fragments of holiness, glimpses of eternity, brief moments of insight. Let us gather them up for the precious gifts that they are, renewed by their grace, and go our ways in peace. Blessed be an amen.