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Now 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
http://www.pitts.emory.edu/woodcuts/1853BiblD/00011487.jpg
 
 
 
 
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:      
                http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
 
 
 
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
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
 
 
 
 
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Psalm 71:1-6
Hebrews 12:18-29
Luke 13:10-17