4Now the word of the
LORD came to me saying, 5"Before I formed you in the
womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a
prophet to the nations." 6Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD!
Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy."
7But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a
boy'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I
command you, 8Do not be afraid of them, for I am with
you to deliver you, says the LORD." 9Then the LORD put
out his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, "Now I have put my
words in your mouth. 10See, today I appoint you over
nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to
overthrow, to build and to plant."
Jeremiah
1:4-10
Jeremiah
CAROLSFELD, Julius Schnorr
von
1851-60
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ
from that of their social environment.
~
Albert Einstein
The
best of a book is not the thought which it contains,but the thought which it
suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes
of our hearts.
~
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A fisherman below the dam
at Evergreen Lake.
I loved the early morning
colors caught in the reflections.
Laura gave a wonderful two
hour demonstration for our
Painted Toe members on
Monday at the Foothills Art Center in Golden.
Amazing!
Ben and two of his four
children at our
Rotary picnic on Thursday
evening.
Beth Erlund with some
of her paintings at the Evergreen Arts Festival on
Saturday.
I promised to send this
picture of her to Gail and Bill in Jamaica
(when they again have
internet service).
Here are two of my
favorite batik pieces of Beth's that are in her first
children's book
(a copy of which is sitting
on my coffee table)!
Prayer is when you
talk to God,
meditation is when
you listen to God.
~ Diana
Robinson
August 26, 2007
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous OPQs may be found
at:
11And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that
had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to
stand up straight. 12When Jesus saw her, he called her
over and said, "Woman, you are set free from your ailment."
13When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood
up straight and began praising God. 14But the leader
of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying
to the crowd, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those
days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day." 15But
the Lord answered him and said, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the
sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it
water? 16And ought not this woman, a daughter of
Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage
on the sabbath day?"
Luke
13:10-17
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Psalm
71:1-6
Hebrews 12:18-29
Luke 13:10-17