We have accomplished so much this year and should feel good about that, even as we understand the continuing and expanding long-range journey on which we remain. I commend so many of you for your sincere and thoughtful comments in our discussions, and for the hard work that is going into making sure everyone is heard and has the information they will need to make the necessary decisions affecting the future of our building needs. Read the report I am writing for the Annual Meeting for more on this. (Don't read just mine, though. Reading all the annual reports will give you some sense of the many successful events and undertakings and the incredible amount of volunteer effort within our Society over the last 10 months.)
Speaking of volunteer work, I want to encourage any of you feeling the urge to step up to the UUSA plate to follow that urge!! There are new committees and new projects needing your help as I write, and as you know, it's only us, folks. I get a lot of joy out of meeting with so many of you in committees and subcommittees and sometimes sub-subcommittees - I suspect you, too, will find joy in helping out while getting to know each other beyond the casual encounter.
If you've been wondering how or where your interests and talents, or spiritual inclinations, might fit into the UUSA picture, have a conversation with me or with one of your Board of Trustee members. The Leadership Appointments Committee (formerly known as the Nominating Committee) is looking for more than a few good men and women.
By the time you get this newsletter, you may already have heard me talk about this in my May 31st sermon, but our lives are WAY too busy these days. My own over-scheduled calendar is staring me in the face. The demands on our time and our interests sometimes tear us in conflicting directions. There are so many things that interest me, for example, and so many other things I know I should or must do, and they don't always match up. Is your life like that too?
My hope for myself, for all of us, really, is that some quiet moments of reflection become available (not, hopefully, in the middle of the night) in which to discern where the priorities are in OUR lives and in the differences we would like to make in the world. My gentle and loving suggestion is that we please consider our spiritual and religious lives in that reflection.
Love,
