New Brackett Church

05/02/2023

May 12th we'll kick off our summer series in the sanctuary of the New Brackett Church. Spring has been cool and wet and this summer when the weather is disagreeable we will head into the sanctuary to enjoy concerts as scheduled. We'll try and be sure to give you plenty of head's up on locations changes... when in doubt? Reach out💗

04/22/2023

Wonder and Wander today at 1 at Trott Little John

04/16/2023

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04/13/2023

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

04/06/2023

04/04/2023

The Worst Thing
The worst thing we ever did was put God in the sky out of reach,
pulling the divinity from the leaf,
sifting out the holy from our bones, insisting God isn’t bursting dazzlement through everything
we’ve made a hard commitment to see as ordinary,
stripping the sacred from everywhere
to put in a cloud man elsewhere,
prying closeness from your heart.
The worst thing we ever did was take the dance and the song out of prayer
make it sit up straight and cross its legs
removed it of rejoicing
wiped clean its hip sway,
its questions, its ecstatic yowl, its tears.
The worst thing we ever did is pretend God isn’t the easiest thing in this universe
available to every soul
in every breath.
- Chelan Harkin

04/03/2023

I to my perils
Of cheat and charmer
Came clad in armour
By stars benign.
Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her
But man's deceiver
Was never mine.

The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame.
Mine were of trouble,
And mine were steady;
So I was ready
When trouble came.
~A.E. Housman And when families and communities anticipate and prepare for conflict, it's one of the deeper forms of fellowship. We practice finding common ground so that we can uproot the small seeds of discord before they explode into knotweed and the old bamboo.

03/27/2023

We all have hidden aspects to how we portray ourselves.

Since the early 1980s, Swiss cartographers have been inserting hidden drawings into official maps. The latest one to be discovered is the Aletsch Glacier marmot. [Image: ©swisstopo.]

03/27/2023