Conventional Wisdom and

Alternative Wisdom

 
 
 
12He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. 13But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. 14And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."
                                                                                    Luke 14:1, 7-14
The Poor Invited to the Feast
JESUS MAFA
http://lib11.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/viewimage.pl?SID=20070831103515625&UID=&auth=&code=ACT&RC=48397&Sequence=3&return=ACT
 
 
 
 
 
You have not lived a perfect day,
even though you have earned your money,
unless you have done something for someone who cannot repay you.
                                                                ~ Ruth Smeltzer*
 
 
 
 
If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent.
It is because you believe things are permanent.
                                                                ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
 
Some of our Painted Toe artists at Foothills Art Center on Monday.
 
The canoes again, but the reflection of the sky in the water was fascinating this morning!
 
A blue heron landed in this treetop ... gazing at the moon in the lower right?
 
 
 
 
 

Take everything you like seriously,

except YOURSELF.

                                    ~ Rudyard Kipling

 
 
 
September 2, 2007    Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
 
Previous OPQs may be found at:      
                http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
 
 
*  Similar quote:
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will
never be able to repay you. ~ John Wooden
 
 


Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
 
 
 
 
 
Epiphanies

 

3

And in the
inlet
the bittern

fishes in
clear
water where

red-stemmed
lilies
grow and

green frogs
rest
in warm sun

and translucent
fish
dart out of

moving shadows
seeking
only survival

and light 
                   J. Janda
                   http://liturgy.slu.edu/22OrdC090207/reflections_janda.html

 

Jeremiah 2:4-13
Psalm 81:1, 10-16
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Luke 14:1, 7-14