The greatest among you will be your servant…

 

 

Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them. They do all their deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long. They love to have the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have people call them rabbi. But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all students. And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father-- the one in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Matthew 23:1-12

 

Sherry, Sir

WOOD, Thomas Waterman

1890

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit, Michigan

United States

 

Thomas Waterman Wood spent time during the Civil War and shortly thereafter in the upper South of Nashville, TN, and Kentucky. During his stay, he made a number of sketches of African-Americans, and upon his return to the Northeast, he developed these into insightful works of the life of the freed slave. This painting of an African-American domestic, a generation after emancipation, was one of several works on the theme of the American household in the boom times of the late 1880's and early 1890's, especially in the Northeast. Ironically, she is serving, serving in freedom, a paradox that engages the viewer.

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20171103680199302&code=ACT&RC=54276&Row=5

 

 

 

 

The single biggest problem in communication

is the illusion that it has taken place.

~ George Bernard Shaw

 

 

 

Whoever undertakes to set himself up 

as a judge of Truth and Knowledge

is shipwrecked by

the laughter of the gods.

~ Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

Danielle Schulz, Adult and Access Programs Coordinator for the Denver Art Museum,

spoke to a group of us at Center for the Arts Evergreen (in our new building)

about developing programs for adults with some dementia.

 

 

 

Grooming Day for JAK and Woofie!

Before

 

 

After

She had to cut off JAK’s whiskers and now he looks like a weasel.

 

 

Halloween

Jim Darling at Life Care

 

 

Party at Patti’s

 

 

Patti and Mike Plummer

 

 

Anna Marie and I had lunch at this restaurant after golf on Wednesday.

 

 

 

Our Chew and Chat group 

had lunch at Fox Hollow Golf Course

Jackie McFarland, Sondra Kellogg, Karla Byrd, Carolyn Alexander

Kay Owen was out of town.

 

 

Friday’s speakers at Rotary were from Ambary Gardens.

https://ambarygardens.com

(Alternative Comfort Remedies)

 

They passed out samples of their natural CBD remedies.

The owner ran a nursery at the site for 24 years.

Now it is used to grow commercial hemp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A man said to the universe: 

“Sir, I exist!”

“However,” replied the universe, 

“The fact has not created in me 

A sense of obligation.”

   ~ Stephen Crane

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 5, 2017   Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 26

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzsteinaaa

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

 

 

 

 

 

Joshua 3:7-17 with Psalm 107:1-7, 33-37 or
Micah 3:5-12 with Psalm 43
1 Thessalonians 2:9-13
Matthew 23:1-12