Epiphany
A story of journey, and of the unexpected
circumstances that can force a change in life's direction.
Matthew 2:1-12
Like wise ones following a
star, God, help us to follow your light.
Like travellers in search of
your truth, God, help us to follow your light.
God of hope and peace
and joy and love and
light,
journey
with us through our lives.
Give use courage to follow your star
into the world.
Amen.
Melchior
Balthasar
Caspar*
We
Three Kings of Orient Are
Christensen,
James C.
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature
that the three things we crave most in life --
happiness, freedom, and peace of mind --
are always attained by giving them to someone
else.
~ Peyton Conway March
The object of a New Year is not
that we
should have a new year.
It is that we should have a new soul.
~
G. K. Chesterton
I will seek
elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion. I will seek to be
worthy more than respectable, wealthy and not rich. I will study hard, think
quietly, talk gently, act frankly. I will listen to stars and birds, babes and
sages, with an open heart. I will bear all things cheerfully, do all things
bravely await occasions and hurry never. In a word I will let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious grow up through the
common.
~ William Ellery
Channing
Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Ice fishing
has great appeal here.
Al and Bob
exhibiting this year's tickets for guessing the date and
time
the barrel on
the lake will break through the ice.
(We do things
BIG in Evergreen!)
<gr>
JAK loves
finding treasures in Vicki's house.
His hair has
grown a bit from last week.
JAK plays hard and sleeps hard!
Many people look forward to the new year
for a new start on old habits.
~
Unknown
January 4,
2009 Second Sunday after Christmas
Previous OPQs may be found
at:
* These derive from an early 6th century Greek manuscript in
Alexandria.[2]
The Latin text Collectanea et Flores[3]
continues the tradition of three kings and their names and gives additional
details. This text is said to be from the 8th century, of Irish
origin.
He
came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who
received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,
who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man,
but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his
glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and
truth.
John 1:(1-9) 10-18
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
Comment from
the artist:
Before all
you Yanni fans get all tied up with indignation, let me just
tell you, for the record, that I really like saganaki, especially when everyone says
“Opa!”
BC:AD
This was the moment when
Before
Turned into After, and the future's
Uninvented
timekeepers presented arms.
This was the moment when
nothing
Happened. Only dull peace
Sprawled boringly over the
earth.
This was the moment when even energetic Romans
Could
find nothing better to do
Than counting heads in remote
provinces.
And this was the moment
When a few farm workers
and three
Members of an obscure Persian sect
Walked haphazard by
starlight straight
Into the kingdom of heaven.
~ U. A. (Ursula Askham)
Fanthorpe (born 1929 in Kent)
Second Sunday after
Christmas
Jeremiah
31:7-14
Psalm 147:12-20
Ephesians 1:3-14
John 1:(1-9)
10-18
January 6 (Epiphany of the Lord)
Isaiah 60:1-6
Psalm 72:1-7,
10-14
Ephesians 3:1-12
Matthew 2:1-12
