Remembrance and Conflict

Remember, Restore, Renew, Resolve

 

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.

Exodus 12:1-14

Feast of the Passover (Detail)

BOUTS, Dieric

Between 1464 and 1467

St. Peter’s Church

Leuven

Belgium

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20170907201788799&code=ACT&RC=55442&Row=6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The overall purpose of human communication is—or should be—reconciliation.

It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls 

of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings,

one from another.

~ M. Scott Peck

 

 

If there is to be reconciliation,

first there must be truth.

~ Timothy B. Tyson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pete and Bonnie Martinez

It was wonderful to have Pete sing at church last Sunday!

Bonnie, it’s coffee time!

http://petemartinezusa.com

 

 

Labor Day Lunch with some of the Lidiaks at Keys on the Green.  Such a delightful time!

Carolyn Alexander, Peter Lidiak, Matt Greco, Cathy Greco, Dianne Lidiak.

Patrick Lidiak is in front.

Peter is Dottie Alexander’s brother and they are from Maryland.

They were in Colorado to visit their friend Cathy Greco and her son, Matt.

 

 

Betsy Buckner was one of the talented artists whose work was displayed at the 

Design Center at an Opening Reception.

 

 

Jennie and Neil Snyder hosted our Spares and Pairs gathering Friday evening.

 

 

Community Flag Retirement

  

Colter Snyder, second from the left, organized a flag retirement ceremony

held at the Fire Station as part of his Eagle Scout project.

 

 

The blue field was cut out separately, then the scouts cut out each stripe.

 

 

The flags were burned by the scout leaders, supervised by

the fire marshal.

 

 

Colter planned it to coincide with the weekend before 9/11.

 

 

 

John Farnsworth took a picture this week of a local bear who ambled

down their driveway and then casually stood at their neighbor’s fence.

 

 

  

Johna McLean, my next door neighbor, took pictures of The Boys and me enjoying an early evening on the lawn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We need some training in humility and in seeing our fellow Christians’ (and others’) humanity.

Perhaps we might tape Romans 13:10 to our computer or wrap it around our cell phones:

“Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is fulfilling the law.”

But that may well be too advanced for us.

~ Jill Duffield

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 10, 2017      Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 18

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

Jesus said, “If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.” 

 

Matthew 18:15-20

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

"The Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity"says this: "A common life, in which those who were divided are reconciled in the body of Christ, is an essential goal of the mission that God has appointed for his people. Unity is not merely a means to mission, but rather a constituent goal: God gathers his people precisely in order to bring unity to a divided humanity. If we accept division from other Christians as normal or inevitable, we turn away from the mission God has given us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exodus 12:1-14 with Psalm 149 or
Ezekiel 33:7-11 with Psalm 119:33-40
Romans 13:8-14
Matthew 18:15-20