Wrestling
Within
The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven
children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across
the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone; and a
man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail
against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob's hip was put out of
joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, "Let me go, for the day is
breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless
me." So he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said,
"Jacob." Then the man said, "You shall no longer be called
Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have
prevailed." Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name."
But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed
him. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face
to face, and yet my life is preserved." The sun rose upon him as he passed
Penuel, limping because of his hip.
Genesis
32:22-31
Jacob and the Angel
MOREAU,
Gustave
1878
Watercolour
Musée
Gustave Moreau
Paris
http://www.biblical-art.com/artwork.asp?id_artwork=10473&showmode=Full
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Becoming is
superior to being.
~ Paul Klee
Vicki and
Alice and I had pizza at Beau Jo’s.
This is a
view of Bear Creek from their patio.
Did you see
the fisherwoman?
Center for the Arts
Evergreen
Abstract Delight:
Selections from the Polly and
Mark Addison Collection
Peggy Eggers
and a friend examining the fine print.
The
Evergreen Design Center
(formerly
The Hardware)
http://www.evergreendesigncenter.com/
Summertime
Art Opening
with oils & mixed
media artist,
Melanie Warsinske (Nuchols)
Someone
bought this piece of Mel’s while I was there!
Marcia and
Jane
Rick and
Cathy Jones on the right
Robert and
Jane
Robert’s
hair is growing back after his chemo!!!
You can just
see the fuzz.
Melanie
Warsinske (Nuchols) with one of her paintings,
“Layered”
$2800
Mel with her
daughters,
Danielle and
Whitney
I met Marj
and her friend, Vicki.
Marj
doggy-sat Miss Maggie for Pastor Dee,
and Vicki
and her husband own Zuni Sign Company.
A woman is
like a tea bag;
you never
know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt *
July 31, 2011 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous
OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
* (You
Learn by Living) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78509.You_Learn_by_Living
Feeding the Five Thousand
Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place
by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the
towns. When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for
them and cured their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and
said, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds
away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves."
Jesus said to them, "They need not go away; you give them something to
eat." They replied, "We have nothing here but five loaves and two
fish." And he said, "Bring them here to me." Then he ordered the
crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he
looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the
disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. And all ate and were
filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve
baskets full. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and
children.
Matthew
14:13-21
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
Agnus
Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Genesis 32:22-31
Psalm 17:1-7, 15
Romans 9:1-5
Matthew 14:13-21