April 15, 2026

“I know of nothing else but miracles.”
~Walt Whitman

Beloveds,

I truly love fall. I find winter restful and the ways we celebrate it comforting. Summer and I are still working out our differences. But spring–ah! Spring is Easter season (seven weeks in many Christian traditions!)--the time of new and renewed life. Spring is so much greening, so much blooming, so much mating and hatching, so many expected and unexpected possibilities unfolding and being realized, we might as well call it the season of miracles. 

Looking out whatever windows I have in whatever moment of this season, all I see (when I stop to consider deeply) are miracles. And also: looking around at my communities, my people, all the other beings who share our earth–in these weeks of springtime there is enough green, enough hope that perhaps once every so often, all I see are miracles. Seeing everything and everyone this way isn’t a constant in my experience, but the possibility of recognizing miracles for a season or even a moment is, perhaps, a gift of spring.

Yours among the miracles,
Rev. Denise
RevDenise@gnuuc.org

P.S. Speaking of possibility, please do not forget that we are approaching the end of our peculiar organizational rite of spring: Stewardship Pledge Drive! It’s the time of year when we ask members and friends to carefully discern and communicate how they plan to support our congregational life with their financial contributions in the next fiscal year (July 2026-June 2027). Please submit your pledge on paper (via the form in your pledge packet) or online by this Sunday, April 19. Your generosity in pledging and giving is the very practical miracle upon which the possibilities of our community of love and justice depend.