Listen ...
Where are our priorities?
 
40But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me." 41But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; 42there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her."
                                                                                    Luke 10:38-42
 
Martha
Louis Glanzman
Mixed Medium, 2002(?)
Women of the New Testament
http://www.louisglanzman.com/martha.html
 
 
 
 
Listening to your heart,
finding out who you are, is not simple.
It takes time for the chatter to quiet down.
In the silence of "not doing" we begin to know what we feel.
If we listen and hear what is being offered,
then anything in life can be our guide.
Listen.
                                                            ~ Unknown
 
 
 
The most important thing in communication
is to hear what isn't being said. 
                                                            ~Peter F. Drucker
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy 92nd Birthday, Bill!!!
Bill, Loie, Sylvia
 
Lynne M., Carolyn Mc, Beth E.
at Wednesday breakfast
 
Great Blue Heron
Upper Bear Creek
 
 
Dave and Patti had a delightful picnic on Saturday.
 
The palomino is almost a year old.  His mother, the paint, will soon give birth again.
Dave gentles horses as one of his hobbies.
 
Dave on his 1936 tractor.
 
Later on Saturday, I went to the Haney's Annual Bluegrass Jam.
 
Juanita and Dee (who helps me with Memories in the Making) at the Jam.
 
 
 
 
 
The word listen contains the same letters
as the word silent.
                                                            ~ Alfred Brendel
 
 
 

 
 
 
July 22, 2007    Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
 
Previous OPQs may be found at:      
                http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
 
 
... people used ice houses to preserve their food. Ice houses had thick walls, no windows, and a tightly fitted door. In winter, when streams and lakes were frozen, large blocks of ice were cut, hauled to the ice houses, and covered with sawdust.  Often the ice would last well into the summer.  One man lost a valuable watch while working in an ice house.  He searched diligently for it, carefully raking through the sawdust, but didn't find it.  His fellow workers also looked, but their efforts, too, proved futile.  A small boy who heard about the fruitless search slipped into the ice house during the noon hour and soon emerged with the watch. Amazed, the men asked him how he found it. "I closed the door," the boy replied, "lay down in the sawdust, and kept very still.  Soon I heard the watch ticking." Often the question is not whether God is speaking, but whether we are still enough, and quiet enough, to hear.         -James Hamilton
 
 
 
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
 
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
 
 
 
Amos 8:1-12
Psalm 52:1-9
Colossians 1:15-28
Luke 10:38-42