Wheat and Weeds
Together
24He put before them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven
may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field;
25but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and
sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. 26So
when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.
27And the slaves of the householder came and said to
him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these
weeds come from?' 28He answered, 'An enemy has done
this.' The slaves said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?'
29But he replied, 'No; for in gathering the weeds you
would uproot the wheat along with them. 30Let both of
them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the
reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but
gather the wheat into my barn.'"
Matthew 13:24-30,
36-43
The
Tares
Sir John Everett
Millais
from
Illustrations to `The Parables of Our Lord',
engraved by the Dalziel Brothers
published
1864
Be careful
lest in fighting the dragon,
you become the dragon.
~ Friedrich
Nietzsche
I am convinced that
life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react
to it, and so it is with you--
we are in
charge of our attitudes.
~ Og
Mandino
Exhibit at Foothills Art
Center in Golden, Colorado.
The hands are of various
people who have had a hand
in the history of the Art
Center.
Another glorious breakfast
morning at Echo Lake Lodge on Wednesday!
Warren, Pat, and
David
Ruth and
Jack
We were happy to see that
all ten ducklings have survived!!!
They have really grown in
two weeks.
The Annual Bluegrass Jam at
Bev and Jim's was on Saturday.
These are two instruments
that Jim made ...
... and he took me to
his workshop to see a fiddle in progress!
He uses different woods for
the front and the back.
Not to be outdone, Homer
Hollensbe showed me one that he had made.
WOW!!! These people
are fascinating!
It is
the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing
because you can only do a little.
~ Sydney
Smith
April 20,
2008 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous OPQs may be found
at:
36Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his
disciples approached him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the
field." 37He answered, "The one who sows the good seed
is the Son of Man; 38the field is the world, and the
good seed are the children of the kingdom; the weeds are the children of the
evil one, 39and the enemy who sowed them is the devil;
the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
40Just as the weeds are collected and burned up with
fire, so will it be at the end of the age. 41The Son
of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes
of sin and all evildoers, 42and they will throw them
into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the
kingdom of their Father. Let anyone with ears
listen!"
Matthew 13:24-30,
36-43
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
James B.
Janknegt
Genesis
28:10-19a
Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24
Romans 8:12-25
Matthew 13:24-30,
36-43
