Feb. 22, 2023
Feb 22, 2023
“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
–George Eliot
Beloveds,
My heart is full these days. Wherever I turn, there is beauty and suffering, love and injustice, grace and difficulty. I hardly know how to focus my attention at times.
One very strong claim on my attention is the vitality of our congregation and our call to be a force for love, among ourselves and within the wider communities of which we are a part. What does GNUUC live for? Whose lives do we make less difficult? Whose lives might we make less difficult if we turned our attention toward them?
I am wondering how our commitment this church year to nurturing all whose paths cross ours (Board vision for 2022-23) might lead us to our future reasons for being as a community of love and justice.
If you’d like to be part of a conversation about how GNUUC makes a difference in lives and in the world–about how we love–I encourage you to sign up for one of our listening circles. You can join us on Zoom Thursday evening or Saturday afternoon (registration required to get the Zoom link) or in person this Sunday after lunch. These conversations will take just a little longer than an hour, and those who participated last week had a good time, I hear. Read more in the announcement below, or simply sign up here.
Yours in love and so many possibilities,
Rev. Denise