The Program for Nov. 10, 2024 that provided a response to the General Election is available here.

 

Dear UUWC Community,

Our Sunday service this week is titled “At the Crack of Dawn”, led by Rev. Nancy and Carole Eagleheart. We will be sharing an experience that acknowledges our grief at the outcome of the election and helps us get in touch with realistic hope for the future.

The service will include inspirational music and a community candlelighting ritual. We encourage you to attend as a way to give and receive support.

We will also be offering 2 Community Conversation Circles this week on Tuesday and Wednesday from 12 noon to 1:30pm. We will gather in the Green Room to share our thoughts and feelings in response to the recent events. We will provide coffee and tea. Please bring a brownbag lunch, or the snack of your choice! This is a time for us to commiserate and share our thoughts and feelings in a safe space.

Shalom.
Rev. Nancy Hitt
Nika Quirk, Council Moderator

 

We are aghast at the election results from yesterday’s Presidential election. Our grief is real and it runs very deep. We are concerned about the impact on people we love, on our country, and on the entire world we live in. We share concerns about marginalized and oppressed people, our economy and the ecosystems of our planet. For many, our worst fears have become reality.

Please take the time you need to recuperate from this event. You know what helps to heal you, so engage in whatever that is. Extra sleep, conversation with trusted friends, comfort foods, meditating in/on nature- all these and many other responses will help us to regain our equilibrium. We are resilient people; we are strong people; we are people committed to our UUWC community as a place of refuge and passion and transformation. Please keep your connection with UUWC for your own sake and for that of the entire community. There will be a LOT to consider and a lot to respond to in regard to the new administration in January. We need each other. We need to show up for each other.

I have included a link to the Rev. Dr. Sophia Betancourt’s message (President of UUA) and a link to an article by Tom Nichols at the Atlantic Daily. Both deal with reality in clear terms and offer responses for the future. After you’ve caught up with our UUWC messages, please check them out if you have not seen them already.

Here is our UUWC schedule for the week:

• The Men’s Group meets Tuesday at 7pm.
• The Community Care Team meets Wednesday at 9:45am.
• The Humanist Group meets Wednesday at 4pm.
• Preparation for the Art Show begins at 11am Friday.
• Your Council also meets on Sunday ay 12:30 in the Conference Room.

Here is a message from Carole Eagleheart:
A deep thank you to all the people who participated in UU the Vote.  Many of you wrote letters and postcards, reaching people in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada and Ohio.  Others helped by stamping and sealing letters, by sending texts, or by working at the polls. I know many of you feel grief and disappointment at the results, but you can find comfort in knowing you did your part.  And together we achieved our goal of becoming a Good Trouble Congregation. Together we prepared and sent 1,715 postcards and letters, and sent 18,870 texts, along with knocking on more than 300 doors to get out the vote.  We’ll celebrate that hard work with a special cake at coffee hour on Sunday.

Here is a message from Karen Schafer: Please contact Karen Schafer at karenjean44@gmail.com if you might be able to help with the Thanksgiving project that Feed Rio Rancho Kids has undertaken. Also, please check the list of new winter coats for some of our neediest kids.  Karen can also send you sizes or the list on posted on the UUWC bulletin board.

We are in the process of updating our Sunday Service for this week; I will email you that information when it is complete.  Plans to address our need to discuss our responses to the election are underway; you will be emailed with details as they are finalized.

Remember to check the links below!

Shalom,

Rev. Nancy

11.6.24 UUA Announcement: US National Election Results

Trump Has Won, but Democracy Is Not Over – The Atlantic

 

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