The Kingdom of God
16Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the elder was
Leah,
and the name
of the younger was Rachel.
Genesis 29:16
MICHELANGELO,
Buonarroti
Rachel and Leah
1545,
Marble
S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome
...
the kingdom of God is really among us,
potentially, always, as the capacity we have ...
to
love and to forgive and to allow one's self
to be
loved and forgiven.
~
Frederick Buechner
Do not
seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought.
~ Basho
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for
it,
but what he becomes by it.*
~
John Ruskin
Annual
Bluegrass Jam at the Haney's
07-16-05
View from
the road to Squaw Pass
(On our way
to Chicago Creek for a picnic last Sunday)
07-17-05
The church is
prayer-conditioned.
~ Unknown
July 24,
2005 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
* A worthy
repeat.
Thank you,
God, for Vicki's successful operation!
May she have
a speedy recovery time!
