Renewal
From the wilderness of Sin the whole
congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They
camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. The people
quarrelled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said
to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?" But
the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses
and said, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children
and livestock with thirst?" So Moses cried out to the Lord, "What
shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me." The Lord
said to Moses, "Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of
Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile,
and go. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike
the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink."
Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. He called the place Massah
and Meribah, because the Israelites quarrelled and tested the Lord,
saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?"
Exodus 17:1-7
Moses Striking the Rock
He
Qi
2001
China
Dr. He Qi is
a professor at the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary and a tutor for master
candidate students in the Philosophy Department of Nanjing University. He is
also a member of the China Art Association and a council member of the Asian
Christian Art Association.
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Water is the supreme magic medium which permeates and
impregnates the universe.
If you know how to listen to a drop of water it will speak
to you.
~
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
as I have seen in one autumnal face.
~
John Donne
What a glorious week in Colorado!!!
Vicki
Hall and Alice Helmkamp and I enjoyed Colorado Color
as
we drove up to Echo Lake Lodge on Thursday!
Guanella
Pass
Lurlie
Bickford baked Birds’ Nest Pudding for our Evening Book Club.
We
read and thoroughly enjoyed “The Invention of Wings,” by Sue Monk Kidd.
Bev
Haney and I had lunch at Keys on the Green on Friday
and
watched the elk out on the golf course.
Bev
and I worked together with Memories in the Making at the
Life
Care Center of Evergreen for years!
A
gang of elk congregated at the lake Friday morning and afternoon.
They
put on quite a show and slowed traffic.
This
big guy was not happy with the people getting too close!
I
wish I had taken a picture a second later when this woman suddenly saw
the
elk charging at her and she very quickly bolted behind her car!
Be sure to watch this if you can!!!
Mark Vickstrom, freshly back from Sweden and Norway,
was
at the lake shortly before I was and recorded this video
where
he captured wonderful bugling!!!
Elk at the lake
Mark
Vickstrom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAi_YyV30bM
Thank
you, MARK!!!
Friday, September 26, 2013
Last Friday Art Walk
Evergreen, Colorado
Barb
Chiarella
“Angle
of Repose”
Main
Stree Gallery
“Noah’s
Ark”
at
the Design Center
Linda
Lovin with her mother (on the left), Amy Lovin, and Elizabeth Schenk
at “Kiss
Me Kate.” Dale Lovin and one of their sons were off fishing for the
weekend
and
Elizabeth and I got to use their tickets!
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves
undistorted.
Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
~
Hans Margolius
September 28, 2014 Sixteenth Sunday after
Pentecost—26the Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 21
When he entered the temple, the chief priests
and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By
what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this
authority?" Jesus said to them, "I will also ask you one question; if
you tell me the answer, then I will also tell you by what authority I do these
things. Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human
origin?" And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'From heaven,'
he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' But if we say, 'Of human
origin', we are afraid of the crowd; for all regard John as a prophet." So
they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And he said to them,
"Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
"What do you think? A man had two sons; he
went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' He
answered, 'I will not'; but later he changed his mind and went. The father went
to the second and said the same; and he answered, 'I go, sir'; but he did not
go. Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The
first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, the tax-collectors and
the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came
to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the
tax-collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and even after you saw it, you
did not change your minds and believe him.”
Matthew 21:23-32
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Exodus
17: 1-7
Psalm 78: 1-4, 12-16
Philippians 2: 1-13
Matthew 21: 23-32