Dec. 10, 2025

Dec. 10, 2025

“There is a limit to the time assigned to you, 
and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.”
~Marcus Aurelius

Beloveds,

Forgive me for selecting what might seem a stern quotation in this month during which we are focusing on hope, but as I read it, Marcus Aurelius isn’t focused so much on our limitations as on the possibility of our freedom. I won’t focus on freedom right here (that’s a sticky subject in so, so many ways!), but I do want you to know that my hope and (I think) the hope and vision of all of us at GNUUC is that together in love we support each other in cultivating hope and freedom and agency in ourselves, each other, and in the rest of the world. 

Life is always limited, but life (in all its forms, not just human experience) also entails freedom and hope. Always, there is possibility. Not forever, but for the time we have. I hope you and I and all of us find ample love and occasionally overflowing joy in the time assigned to us!

Yours in limitation and the love that anchors our freedom,
Rev. Denise
RevDenise@gnuuc.org