Pentecost
Wind and Fire 
 
2And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
                            Acts 2:1-21
Pentecost
The Descent of the Spirit
RESTOUT, II Jean
1732
Musée du Louvre, Paris
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/r/restout/pentecos.jpg
 
 
 
 
 
1The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry.
                                Ezekiel 37:1-14
 
Ezekiel
(and the dry bones)
© 1998 The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum
10001 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
http://www.ratnermuseum.com/heroes/_img0040.html
 
 
 
 
We are not human beings
having a spiritual experience. 
We are spiritual beings
having a human experience.
                                                                ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 
 
 

Some day after we have mastered the winds,
the waves and gravity...we will harness
for God the energies of love;
and then for a second time in the history
of the world, man will have discovered fire.*
                                           ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 
 
 
 
Memorial Day Picnic, 2006
Cousin Joyce, Vicki, Tom
 
We served ourselves inside,
then ate our picnic lunch on the deck
of their rented condo overlooking the chuckling
Fall River in Estes Park, Colorado.
 
 
 
 
Memories in the Making
Our month-long showcase display at the Evergreen Public Library
(before they all fell down!!!)
June, 2006
 
 
 
 
 
Once you label me you negate me.
                                 ~ Soren Kierkegaard
 
 
 
 
 
 
John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15**
Agnus Day
by James Wetzstein

 
http://www.agnusday.org/
 
 
 
 
June 4, 2006    Day of Pentecost
 
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Acts 2:1-21 or Ezekiel 37:1-14
Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
Romans 8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-21
John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

 
 
*A repeat
 
**John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15    The  "Spirit Sermon" of Jesus

26"When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. 27You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.

16:4b"I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' 6But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. 7Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9about sin, because they do not believe in me; 10about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; 11about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

12"I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you."

 



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