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

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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

 

 

 

 

 

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Vicki and Alice and I had pizza at Beau Jo’s.

This is a view of Bear Creek from their patio.

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Did you see the fisherwoman?

 

 

Center for the Arts Evergreen

Abstract Delight:

Selections from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection

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Peggy Eggers and a friend examining the fine print.

 

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The Evergreen Design Center

(formerly The Hardware)

http://www.evergreendesigncenter.com/

 

Summertime Art Opening

with oils & mixed media artist,

Melanie Warsinske (Nuchols)

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Someone bought this piece of Mel’s while I was there!

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Marcia and Jane

Rick and Cathy Jones on the right

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Robert and Jane

Robert’s hair is growing back after his chemo!!!

You can just see the fuzz.

 

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Melanie Warsinske (Nuchols) with one of her paintings,

“Layered”

$2800

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Mel with her daughters,

Danielle and Whitney

 

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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

      

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          http://www.idealnetworker.com/2011/04/are-people-really-like-tea-bags-first-lady-eleanor-roosevelt-thinks-so/

 

 

 


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

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

 

 

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Genesis 32:22-31

Psalm 17:1-7, 15

Romans 9:1-5

Matthew 14:13-21