Yellow Frame Church: 1750-2025, 275 years of worship and service.
Sunday Worship is at 10:00 a.m. Welcome
Straight Talk from Fox, by Mary Oliver
Listen says fox
it is music to run over the hills
to lick dew from the leaves
to nose along the edges of the ponds
to smell the fat ducks in their bright feathers but far out,
safe in their rafts of sleep.
It is like music to visit the orchard,
to find the vole sucking the sweet of the apple,
or the rabbit with his fast-beating heart.
Death itself is a music.
Nobody has ever come close to writing it down, awake or in a dream.
It can not be told.
It is flesh and bones changing shape and with good cause,
mercy is a little child beside such an invention.
It is music to wander the black back road south side of town,
no one awake or wondering
if anything miraculous is ever going to happen,
totally dumb to the fact of every moment's miracle.
Don't think I haven't peeked into windows.
I see you in all your seasons making love, arguing,
talking about God as if he were an idea instead of the grass, instead of the stars,
the rabbit caught in one good teeth-whacking hit and brought home to the den.
What I am,and I know it,
is responsible, joyful, thankful.
I would not give my life for a thousand of yours.
Literary Theory, by Ada Limon
Somehow the word
allow is in the word
swallow and in swallow
two wholly different meanings:
one to take in through
the mouth and another
what we call the common
winged gnat hunter who
is, in all probability,
somewhere near us now.
Once, I thought
if I knew all the words
I would say the right thing
in the right way,
instead language becomes
more brutish: blink twice
for the bird, blink once
for tender annihilation. Who
knows what we are doing as
we go about our days lazily
choosing our languages. Some
days my life is held together
by definitions, some days
I read the word swallow
and all my feathers show.
LADIES AID SPRING RUMMAGE SALE:Sale starts Friday, May 1 from 9-4, Saturday,May 2 from 9-3 and after church on Sunday for parishioners only. Start gathering your donations of clothes, household items, art work, linens,seasonal decorations, shoes, purses, lamps, books, etc. to drop off at the church starting Sunday, April 26 after church through Thursday, April 30th from9 to noon. We prefer "seasonal" items such as lightweight clothing and shoes vs heavy coats as well as seasonal decorations for spring vs Christmas decorations. Save those for the Fall Rummage Sale please. We need lots of volunteers to set all the tables after church on Sunday, April 26 and clean up Sunday, May 3rd. Volunteers needed during the week to unpack boxes and bags, sort, price, and organize.There's a job for everyone! (Thank you from Ladies Aid members and Becky Paulson, chairperson)Donations can be brought to church starting Monday, 4/27 thru Thursday, 4/30 9am to Noon. Please don’t bring Furniture, TVs, VHS players and tapes, computers and their components, electronics, Nat’l Geographic magazines, encyclopedias, baby cribs, car seats, large Fisher Price outdoor toys, bed pans, commodes, hard sided suitcases, household cleaners or chemicals, garden sprays, insecticides or herbicides, sharp objects (i.e.: kitchen knives).
