Listen!

 

 

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD under Eli. The word of the LORD was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his room; the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was. Then the LORD called, "Samuel! Samuel!" and he said, "Here I am!" and ran to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call; lie down again." So he went and lay down.

The LORD called again, "Samuel!" Samuel got up and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, my son; lie down again." Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him. The LORD called Samuel again, a third time. And he got up and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." Then Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the boy. Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down; and if he calls you, you shall say, 'Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

Now the LORD came and stood there, calling as before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, for your servant is listening." Then the LORD said to Samuel, "See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make both ears of anyone who hears of it tingle. On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them. Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated by sacrifice or offering forever."

Samuel lay there until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli. But Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son." He said, "Here I am." Eli said, "What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also, if you hide anything from me of all that he told you." So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. Then he said, "It is the LORD; let him do what seems good to him." As Samuel grew up, the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was a trustworthy prophet of the LORD.

 

1 Samuel 3:1-10, (11-20)

 

Samuel Reading to Eli the Judgments of God Upon Eli’s House

COPLEY, John Singleton

1780

Wadsworth Atheneum

Hartford, Connecticut

United States of America

 

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I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it.

It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

It talks to me sometimes.

I feel myself alive in it.

It talks.

And I can hear it.

~ Chaim Potok

 

 

 

 

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night

by those who have learned to listen.

~ Vernon Howard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evergreen Rotary’s Annual

Ethics in Business Award

Pandora and John Erlandson, last year’s recipients,

made the presentation.

 

This year’s recipients …

Dr. Jeff and Mrs. Bev Sprout

Owners/partners of Evergreen Dental Group

 

 

 

Sculpture Evergreen’s Annual Reception for Artists

Center for the Arts Evergreen

Friday, June 1, 2018

The fifteen sculptures from last year were removed on Friday, June 1st, and on Saturday,

June 2nd, the new sculptures were installed.

 

The Barbara Sternberg Award for Exellence was awarded for

Ancient Protocol

by Paul Russell

 

Anna Marie Nelson (golfing buddy) presented the award for the Peoples’ Choice.

 

 

The Peoples’ Choice Award went to

Kit Fox

by Pokey Park

 

Gail Riley, Carolyn Alexander

 

Installation of this year’s sculptures

Saturday, June 2, 2018

Oliver

by Jeff Best

(Jeff drove here from Michigan with Oliver riding on the trailer behind.)

 

 

 

A River Runs Through It

by Lyle Clift

 

Mark Johnston welds Sandstorm, by Justin Deister, in place.

 

Sue Quinlan, the artist, watches while her piece is bolted in place.

Into the Mix

by Sue Quinlan

 

Another view of Into the Mix with the artist in the background.

 

Why Oh Why

by Jade Windell

 

Red Rover

by Pati Stajcar

 

A wonderful site for Red Rover!

 

 

 

In the Balance of Time

by Victoria Patti

(The pendulum, once started, swings for 45 minutes.)

 

More welding!

 

Peace

by Scott Froschauer

 

All the new sculptures were mounted by noon.

Then many artists joined us for lunch at Keys on the Green.

 

Evergreen now has 34 permanent sculptures

and fifteen temporary sculptures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The word “listen” contains the same letters

as the word “silent.”

~ Alfred Brendel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 3, 2018 Second Sunday after Pentecost Year B

                Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

                Proper 4

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?" And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions." Then he said to them, "The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath."

Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come forward." Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent. He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

Mark 2:23-3:6

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

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

 

 

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1 Samuel 3:1–10, (11–20)
Psalm 139:1–6, 13–18
2 Corinthians 4:5–12
Mark 2:23—3:6