The days are surely coming ...
Hope
 
 
Our Hope For Years to Come
The 73rd annual Concordia College Christmas Concert.
Moorhead, Minnesota
http://www.hetland.com/murals/hope.htm
 
 
 
 
 
 
No matter what changes take place in the world or in me,
nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.
                                                                ~ E.B. White
 
 
 
 
In the hour of adversity be not without hope
For crystal rain falls from black clouds.
                                                                ~ Persian Poem
 
 
 
 
 
At the Denver Art Museum, we are cleaning the Spanish Colonial silver.

 
Unlike the last time, five or six years ago,
we now have a much larger and better ventilated area.
 
This is one of the pieces I cleaned!
 
 
A Rotary Dine-Around Christmas celebration Friday night!

A hip swinging Santa in Diane and Tom's lovely home.
 
We had a dozen members of the Evergreen Chorale entertain
us with some moving carols ... and a few funny ones.
 
Dori, Dave, and Hanna got to help.
 
And the evening ended with more serious but stimulating chatting.
 
 
 
 
 
Hope is patience
with the lamp lit.
                                                                ~ Tertullian
 
 
 
 
 
December 3, 2006    First Sunday of Advent
 
Previous OPQs may be found at:      
                http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
 
 
 

"Redemption Draws Near,"
James F. Kay,
The Christian Century, 1997.

"...the message of Advent is that we can never take our own projections more seriously than God's promises. When we least expect it and when there is no evidence for it, God's power comes into this godless world in ways the world itself could never predict or foresee."
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n32_v114/ai_20016441

 

 
34"Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the
worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly, 35like a trap.
                                Luke 21:25-36
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
 
 
 
 
http://thebackpew.com/backpew/0_realmsofglorychoir.htm
 
http://www.shalfleet.net/advent/firstweek.htm
 
 
 
 
Jeremiah 33:14-16
Psalm 25:1-10
1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
Luke 21:25-36