April 22, 2026
Dear Friend,
400 million years…according to the fossil record, that is how long freshwater fish have been evolving. I am thinking about it because the suckers are running right now in smaller streams all over New England. According to the Fish and Game Service, suckers move from lakes into streams when the water temperatures hit 50 degrees. They swim upstream to spawn in the gravel. The following is a video I took yesterday afternoon from the bridge over Nubanusit Brook (just where the road around Lake Skatutakee meets Main Street in Harrisville). The video is a minute and a half long because it takes awhile to identify the fish. You may see between 3 and 5 or more; the fish are brown and very camouflaged (another mark of their successful evolution).
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Bearing witness to this ancient process is a welcomed reminder that even though it is almost impossible to tell, humankind continues to evolve as well. We get so impatient that things are not better, that democracy is imperfect (but still our best alternative so far!), that there is still so much violence and unkindness. Could it be that there is more good and less bad than ever before in human history? I am not sure, but I appreciate the time to consider it.
Those fish have been perfecting themselves for hundreds of millions of years (quite unintentionally…the best adapted ones are the most successful at reproducing so the perfecting happens over a very long period of time). We, you and I (simply because I am writing this and you are reading it) are intentionally trying to better ourselves and serve the higher good we call God, so…in the long, long, long run we are expediting the evolutionary process in humankind to move towards health, wholeness, and a peaceful, equitable existence. We don’t have to fix everything, Friend…we only have to do our part.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.” -Colossians 3:23
More about the suckers HERE
Rummage Sale is this weekend!
Thanks to all who are helping in various ways.
CHURCH SUPPER
MEATLOAF SUPPER WITH SIDES
TUESDAY APRIL 28TH
5:30 p.m.
Please join me in a spirit of prayer.
God of grace, grant us both patience and perseverance. We seem so slow to evolve into the kind of society we long for. Turn our attention within to how we can be more aligned with goodness, with God-ness. Calm our fears about the future, I pray, and remind us that everything is changing…all the time…and good things ARE happening all around. May we be a source of light, peace, and genuine presence in all our encounters. This I pray in the name of Christ. Amen.
“May God supply your every need.” – Philippians 4:19
With love,
Traceymay
603-715-0990
Traceymaykalvaitis@gmail.com
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