Hospitality and Forgiveness

36One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair.

Luke 7:36-8:3

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Mary’s Gift

also known as The Alabaster Jar

BONNELL, David

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

http://www.biblical-art.com/artwork.asp?id_artwork=31469&showmode=Full

Images of Christ Project. Luke 7:37-50.

Artist's comment: "In this large painting the most dominant visuals are the hands of Christ. With His right hand we see him accepting the worship of Mary. With his left hand we see his forgiveness and compassion. As the viewer focuses on the right hand, there is another level of meaning to be viewed. This hand was the one nailed to the cross. As one looks past the hand, there is revealed one of the thieves hanging on the cross. Here we see compassion fulfilled through the cross of Christ and sins forgiven. The moon symbolizes God the Father. The transference of divine forgiveness is shown through the color blue. This symbolic gesture in painting is one that is never found in iconistic work with the exception of depicting halos on the Saints and Christ."

 

 

By not forgiving, I chain myself to a desire to get even,
thereby losing my freedom.

                                                      ~ Henri Nouwen

 

When you forgive someone who has wronged you,
you're spared the dismal corrosion of bitterness and wounded pride.

                                                      ~ Frederick Buechner

 

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Thank you, Bijou, for walking (with your mommy and daddy) in my honor in the Denver Bark for Life Walk last weekend!

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JAK and Vicki

We had our first picnic of the season last Sunday!

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View from the picnic grounds

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A blue heron posed right out the window for our Breakfast Group on Wednesday.

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And then he flew away.

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John and Gretchen at a fund-raiser breakfast at
Hiwan Country Club on Thursday.

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Hanna was a big organizer for the Senior Resource Center breakfast.

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In the afternoon, Vicki and I visited the Iris4U gardens.

Thank you, Nancy, for recommending them!

The owner, Robert Van Liere, is from Holland, Michigan

(where Brother Jack and I graduated from high school)!

http://www.iris4u.com/index.html

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Gorgeous blossoms!

The two varieties above are new this year and each cost $50 for one bulb!

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Thursday evening was the Alzheimer Association’s BIG Art Auction at Invesco Field.

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Following dinner, a double rainbow appeared over Denver just as the Live Auction was about to begin.

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This quilt was made up of nine paintings by Memories in the Making artists.

Our Jan’s painting was used for the upper right panel.

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One of the boxes at Invesco Field.

This is where the paintings were packaged for the people who won the bids.

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On Friday morning we took a bunch of Summer Camp kids to visit the sculptures around town.

Tom Ware (with Karen Lindsay) talked about his sculpture, “Planting Evergreen,” in front of the library.

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Ann Simpson’s graceful sculpture struck a little too close to home!

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The kids decided she had lost her heart.

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Laura Mehmert talked with them about the process of making her sculpture, “The Foreman.”

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This sculpture was a favorite with the kids.

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Friday afternoon we had a LOT of large, marble-sized hail.

Alas. I had just planted my flowers on Tuesday.

There are still piles of hail scattered about.

 

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.

                                                      ~ Mark Twain

 

June 13, 2010    11th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Previous OPQs may be found at:      

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

Then turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

Luke 7:36—8:3

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org

1 Kings 21:1-10 (11-14) 15-21a

Psalm 5:1-8

Galatians 2:15-21

Luke 7:36—8:3