Connected While Apart Such Trust: Seeds on the Move a familiar fall scene “Journeys ended, journeys begun, to go where we have never been, to be beyond our past.” (Gregory Norbet) Dear Mayfield, In the third chapter of the Gospel of John, we read of the nighttime encounter of Jesus with the Pharisee Nicodemus, also […]
Dear Friends, See below the link for this weekend’s materials. Please note at the end of the bulletin that we are beginning our Advent/Christmas collection to cover the $800 costs for our JAMS student in the coming year. Thank you for these gifts and for your gifts to cover the ongoing Mayfield expenses. Be safe, […]
Connected While Apart An Oak Surprise November Oak Leaves Dear Mayfield, Before this year I hadn’t paid that much attention to oak leaves. In my experience, they have pretty much simply turned brown in autumn. Their shape is interesting, but fall coloration is often a bit dull. This year they have been a spectacular surprise. […]
Connected While Apart Assurance in the Flow Kishwaukee River — November 2, 2020 Dear Mayfield, In any accounting of rivers, the winding, North-flowing Kishwaukee is in the watery minor leagues, especially in a state that hosts the likes of the Mississippi, the Illinois, the Rock, and the Fox Rivers, to name a few. I remember […]
Dear Mayfield, Happy Halloween. Below you will find our worship and reflection materials for this Memorial Weekend. Don’t forget to turn back the clocks if you have any that don’t reset themselves. One way by which I measure the length of this pandemic time is that this is the 100th piece of content that I […]
Connected While Apart Halloween Remembered pumpkins just east of Genoa, early Saturday morning, October 24, 2020 Dear Mayfield, In all of the upheaval of this year and with the cancellation or alteration of so many beloved Halloween traditions, I wanted to offer us a visual of what remains constant — it is October, and the […]
Connected While Apart Empowered A sampling of my masks — these were all made by hand for me — a favorite color in batik, mermaid scales, the big lakes, Eric Carle’s butterfly from The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and water-washed rocks with words of affirmation. Dear Mayfield, Most days I go through two or three masks […]
Greetings Mayfield Community, Attached below are the resources for this weekend. A couple of reminders about the musical links. If there is an ad at the beginning of the chant link, you can fast forward it in a few seconds. If you can’t hear any of the links, make sure the sound button isn’t muted. […]
Connected While Apart Leaves Again? Dear Mayfield, There is a joke I have heard more than once among amateur photographers. How many more pictures of sunsets do I really need? Well If you live by big water or broad land, in a city as the light sinking toward the horizon dances off tall buildings of stone, […]
Connected While Apart Autumn Within and Around The earth we are riding keeps trying to tell us something with its continuous scripture of leaves. (William Stafford) I am made of all the same stuff that makes the seasons what they are. (Heather Maloney) The notion that our lives are like the eternal cycles of the […]