Feb. 15, 2023

 Feb 15, 2023

“May our love bless everyone.”

–Pool of Love, Alexa Sunshine Rose

Dear Ones,

I’ve been seeing the first signs of spring (birds getting busy, yellow things flowering), and I want to encourage you this week to think about your emergence from the hibernation of winter, too. I just happen to have a few suggestions:

A few GNUUC leaders and I hope you will join us for one of several listening circles being offered on the next two Sunday afternoons (at GNUUC, in person) and one afternoon and one evening next week/weekend on Zoom. These will be a chance to share with each other why GNUUC is important in our lives and to dream a little bit about possible futures for our congregation. We had an amazing time planning and practicing this circle experience and look forward to sharing it with you. 

Nashville Organized for Action and Hope (NOAH) is undertaking its every-few-years Listening Campaign (about which I consistently hear rave reviews from participants) to discern and select its action issues for the next few years. See the announcement below if you are interested in being a listener here at GNUUC, please say “yes” if a listener asks to talk with you, and save the date of April 30 to attend the NOAH Issues Convention to help represent GNUUC as we (the member organizations of NOAH) set our priorities for the upcoming years.

Finally, the General Assembly (GA) of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), which takes place every June, is happening in Pittsburgh, PA this year. Maybe you’d like to attend in person or remotely? Please find more information below and consider if you’d like to represent our congregation as a delegate or just to meet other UUs and learn more about the exercise of democracy (and oh, so many other things!) in our larger movement. It’s going to be a busy GA, with a presidential election and lots of voting, including an amendment to the UUA Bylaws. 

None of us can do all of the good stuff there is to do. If you’d like help figuring out how to focus your springtime energies, I love a good discernment conversation–email me!

Yours in love and so many possibilities,

Rev. Denise
RevDenise@gnuuc.org