Table of
Plenty
24Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until
daybreak. 25When the man saw that he did not prevail
against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put out of
joint as he wrestled with him. 26Then he said, "Let me
go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you
bless me." 27So he said to him, "What is your name?"
And he said, "Jacob." 28Then the man said, "You shall
no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with
humans, and have prevailed." 29Then Jacob asked him,
"Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And
there he blessed him. 30So Jacob called the place
Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is
preserved."
Gen
32:22-31
Combat de l'ange et
Jacob
(Fight of Jacob and the
angel)
CHMAKOFF, Macha
To live is so
startling,
it leaves little time for
anything else.
~ Emily
Dickenson
Time is a dressmaker
specializing in alterations.
~
Faith Baldwin
The happy heart
runs with the
river,
floats on the
air,
lifts to the
music,
soars with the
eagle,
hopes with the
prayer.
~ Maya
Angelou
Painted Toe Society members at
lunch on Monday
Cathy, Bob, Terrey
Colorado Watercolor
Society
Members Show
Center for the Arts
Evergreen!!!
Low Tide at
Laugharne
by David Cuin
Oh, no! I don't remember the
title!!!
(I'm sorry, CV.)
by Carolyn Martyn
Guess Who's Coming to
Dinner?
(Is that Angel?)
by Pat Foster
Vicki and I ate at the Elephant Bar
this week.
We loved the door handles and
reflections.
We turn not older with
the years,
but newer every
day.
~ Emily
Dickinson
<gr>
August 3,
2008 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous OPQs may be found at:
"Barbara Brown Taylor has a problem
with miracles
that 'mesmerize' us and lead us to leave everything up to
God.
'Miracles,' she writes, 'let us off the hook.
They appeal to the
part of us that is all too happy
to let God feed the crowd, save the
world, do it all.'"
Loaves and Fishes
13Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a
boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed
him on foot from the towns. 14When he went ashore, he
saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick.
15When it was evening, the disciples came to him and
said, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away
so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves."
16Jesus said to them, "They need not go away; you give
them something to eat." 17They replied, "We have
nothing here but five loaves and two fish." 18And he
said, "Bring them here to me." 19Then he ordered the
crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he
looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the
disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
20And all ate and were filled; and they took up what
was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.
21And those who ate were about five thousand men,
besides women and children.
Matthew 14:13-21
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
