Today is Palm Sunday on the Christian Calendar and the Jewish calendar will officially mark the beginning of Passover tomorrow. These are both days of great significance in their respective traditions. In both traditions they are observed with stories of the worst of times and the best of times.  The worst and the best are embraced together and so it is in our own life and times. Sometimes it is in the difficult times that a blessing not otherwise possible comes.  Sometimes there is joy and suffering together in our lives.  With the help of beautiful music from both traditions we will explore the words with which Unitarian Charles Dickens opened, “A Tale of Two Cities” It is the worst of times. It is the best of times."