Welcome to May and the potential the new month brings. Today is grand and beautiful in Chuckatuck, even though the lawn folks were out earlier this week and cut most of the butter cups down. But the new seedlings have budded and one has put out leaves – there are signs of new life on […]
We pray that your “April showers are bringing May flowers” as they have in Chuckatuck. Today is a wonderful day as April slowly draws to a close. The butter cups are littering the lawn, the rhododendron are dropping their flowers, and the fledglings in the yard are getting bigger every day. Even in the middle […]
We bid you grace and peace from Chuckatuck on the 2nd Sunday of Easter (often misnamed as Doubting Thomas Sunday) and at the close of the 6th week of social distancing, shelter-in-place, safer at home declaration. This past week has been unsettled in the area – weather, tension from isolation, and general confusion as the […]
Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! This morning broke bright and sunny. Sadly, we were unable to have sunrise service at the pond altar – this would have been one of the best services outside in the past few years. But, that’s the breaks of “safer at home” and we are […]
Grace and peace to you on Palm Sunday. Regrettably, today was the best day to process palms across the churchyard in my 10 years at St. John’s. There was a light breeze but it was warm and sunny. If it’s any consolation, I did process across the yard singing All glory laud and honor as […]