Envy
 
 
The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard
REMBRANDT, Harmenszoon van Rijn
1637
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
http://www.biblical-art.com/artwork.asp?id_artwork=1503&showmode=Full
 
 
 
Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation
of our own uniqueness and self worth.
Each of us has something to give that no one else has.
                                                                ~Elizabeth O'Connor
 
 
 
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings
instead of your own.
                                                                ~ Harold Coffin
 
 
 
 
Bev and Jim's Bluegrass Band played
at church for our Chuckwagon Barbecue Saturday evening.
 
Carmon showed us how he is going to mount
a christening suit for some friends of ours.
 
The elk have been bugling for a few weeks now
as the bulls gather their harems.
 
This big guy had several encounters with a younger bull
who was trying to challenge him for his females.
 
Here he comes again. 
I watched him being chased off three times.
 
The big guy gives chase across the meadow.
 
 
The younger bull changed his mind each time and turned tail and ran!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Grace is always amazing grace.
Grace that can be calculated and 'expected' is no longer grace.
                                                                ~ Eugene Boring
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
September 21, 2008    Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
Previous OPQs may be found at:      
     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm 
 
 
 
 
10Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage. 11And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, 12saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.' 13But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? 14Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. 15Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?' 16So the last will be first, and the first will be last."
                                                                                Matthew 20:1-16
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
 
 
http://www.cruzblanca.org/hermanoleon/sem/a/to/25_vina/25to.htm
 
 
 
Exodus 16:2-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45
Philippians 1:21-30
Matthew 20:1-16