Our guest speaker, Reverend James Ford, has come to feel we live, breathe, and take our being within stories. Not long ago he stumbled upon one that he found describes the spiritual path nearly perfectly. Today, he’ll share it along with his own running commentary. About Our Guest Speaker — The Reverend James Ishmael Ford is the first Unitarian Universalist minister to also be credentialed as a Soto Zen Buddhist priest. He currently guides the Anaheim Zen Sangha, a Zen meditation group, as well as serving as consulting minister to the Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim. He is the author of five books including If You’re Lucky, Your Heart Will Break, about his walk between Zen and liberal religion. His most recent book is Introduction to Zen Koans: Learning the Language of Dragons.