Firm Foundations
 

 18But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19And of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you;

                                                                        Genesis 6:18-19

                                                                                                                           Noah
                                                                        The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum
                                                                        Bethesda, Maryland
 
 
 
(Nelson Mandela) has given us firm foundations,
whose bricks are magnanimity and generosity,
forgiveness and reconciliation; ...
                                                               ~ Desmond Tutu
 
 
 
To know what you prefer instead of
humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
                                                               ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

                                  
 
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
                                                               ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
 
 
 
 
Alice, a non-swimmer, snorkeling in Maui.
(Now that took great courage and faith!)
 
I always think that we all live, spiritually,
by what others have given us in the significant hours of our life.
These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming,
but arrive unexpected.
                                                                        ~ Albert Schweitzer1
 
 
 
 
May 29, 2005    Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time 
 
http://www.ratnermuseum.com/genesis/genesis.html
http://www.stainedglassphotography.com/Galleries/Morris/Morris10.htm
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
 
1 http://www.internet-physician.com/albert.html
 
 
One of Goro-san's favorite running places in Iwate, Japan.
 
 
 
 
                                                                          Noah,     Stained Glass
                                                                          Jesus Church
                                                                          Troutbeck, Cumbria
                                                                          UK
 
 
 
 
 
 
P.S.  Noah's wife was NOT Joan of Arc.
 
 
 
 
...as we live our lives, give us the wisdom to live our lives well.  Give us the grace to build our lives upon the solid foundation of your truth.  Give us the courage to walk your way, that narrow way that leads to life.  Keep restoring your image in us.  Keep guiding us in your way.  Set us upon the rock.  Amen.