We are constantly preaching about taking your camera with you wherever you go. The daffodils were in full bloom yesterday on the Green in Waterbury, CT, and we had cameras with us. It was a great opportunity to put the new with the old as the steeple behind the daffodils is St. John's Episcopal, built in 1878. While this may be old in some areas, around here, it's probably average. In fact, it's the fourth church built on this site since it was St. James Church, "established from England in 1732 by the venerable society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts." Yes, it was originally founded by a group of missionaries from the Church of England and renamed St. John's Church in 1797.We have come a long way from being a "foreign part" of England. Our lives have become so complex during the past nearly 300 years, but there are two things that haven't changed, the Gospel they brought to our soil and the simple beauty of the daffodil that emerges from the earth year after year.
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