We, by our very nature as human beings, long for connection.  We will seek ways to be in association, cohesion, solidarity and community with what feeds our soul.  This will occur in ways that defy logic, reason and convenience.  There are some things to which we attach ourselves that are transient.  And such things, often with critical importance, come and go.  Our hearts rise and fall with their entry and exit.  But there are other things to which we will always, and inseparably, be connected.  These bring about the sighs and exultations of the universe.  This is a sermon about the transient and the permanent within ministry and our human evolution.