Affluenza
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” Then he told them a parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’ Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”
Luke 12:13-21
The Covetous Man
TENIERS, David, the Younger
1648
National Gallery, London
Bequeathed by Lord Farnborough, 1838
http://www.nationalgalleryimages.co.uk/Imagedetails.aspx?q=NG155&ng=NG155&frm=1
In all abundance there is lack.
~ Hippocrates
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need,
but not every man's greed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Jeanne and I thoroughly enjoyed All Shook Up!
Beth Erlund at Wednesday Breakfast with her sister.
Ellen is visiting from Florida and helping Beth with her shows.
Amelia joined our Chew and Chat group on Thursday.
She couldn’t believe her tiramisu when the waitress served it.
Katie (center) is visiting her parents, Bob and Annette Bradley.
Katie lives in Bermuda and sometimes her parents have to visit her.
They brought her to Rotary on Friday morning.
Ice Cream Birthday cake during Memories in the Making at Life Care Nursing Home on Friday.
It was because of Phyllis that the Offering Plate Quotes began!
Dee and Carolyn
Dee is a newcomer to Memories (and to Life Care).
Dinner with Carolyn McCants and Roy Saturday evening was a delicious delight!
Their resident fox came to visit.
She looks like a young kit that is a cross between a red and black fox.
She licked her lips as she watched us eat our hors d’oeuvres on the patio.
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
~ Pablo Picasso
August 1, 2010 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
The Miser and His Gold
Aesop
Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloat over his gains. A robber, who had noticed this, went and dug up the gold and decamped with it. When the Miser next came to gloat over his treasures, he found nothing but the empty hole. He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that all the neighbors came around him, and he told them how he used to come and visit his gold.
"Did you ever take any of it out?" asked one of them.
"Nay," said he, "I only came to look at it."
"Then come again and look at the hole," said a neighbor; "it will do you just as much good."
Moral: Wealth unused might as well not exist.
http://www.heartlight.org/gallery/945.html
Hosea 11:1-11
Psalm 107:1-9,43
Colossians 3:1-11
Luke 12:13-21