President’s Message

 

The past few months have been sad times for our congregation. Several members and members’ spouses have passed away. We will miss our late members Tom Hibberd and Scott Forbes and our heartfelt condolences go out to Lonnee Zingg, Sheila Woods and John Ivens for the passing of their beloved spouses. Thanks to the universal reality of complementarity, impermanence involves joy along with sadness and NCUU has recently been blessed by the addition of several vibrant new members who are already actively contributing in a diversity of ways. New members who joined NCUU over the past year are Bonnie and Chas Anderson, Kimberly Brost and Joy Brunswick, Stephanie and Tasana Collins, Mary Hedges, Ted Sims, and Anne and Tom Utschig. Special Friends Fred and Gin Foresman are also very actively engaged in many aspects of our spiritual and justice pursuits. Welcome and thank you all for being part of our caring and loving NCUU life.

All voting members of NCUU will soon receive a brief proposal for possibly opening a search for a quarter-time minister utilizing funds from the bequest to NCUU from Reverend Mary Louise DeWolf. The Board of Directors approved the distribution of this document at its February meeting, and it must now be either approved or rejected by the voting members of the congregation at the Annual meeting in April. We will follow the wishes of a simple majority in either going forward or standing down. Please give the document your serious consideration.

I close with the reminder that Unitarian Universalism is a creedless denomination with the mission of providing a liberal and welcoming spiritual community promoting love and social justice. The UU faith is not underpinned by dogma or scripture because we wish to encourage and enable unconstrained and continually evolving spiritual growth. Spiritual exploration and the embrace of mystery are stimulating, loving, and life-enhancing. “Wokeness” is a virtue that we should constantly nurture.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. – Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science– Albert Einstein

Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. – Eckhart Tolle

Namaste,
Don Wright