Memorial Day is observed on
the last Monday of May. It was formerly known as Decoration Day and commemorates
all men and women who have died in military service for the United States. Many
people visit cemeteries and memorials on Memorial Day and it is traditionally
seen as the start of the summer season. It is traditional to fly the flag
of the United States at half mast from dawn until noon.
Prayer
Memorial
Day
[Jesus said:] "I have made
your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and
you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything
you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to
them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and
they have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not
asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because
they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been
glorified in them.
"And now I am no longer in the
world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect
them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are
one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given
me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be
lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and
I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in
themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because
they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not
asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the
evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
"Sanctify them in the truth; your
word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the
world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be
sanctified in truth."
John
17:6-19
The Lord is My
Shepherd *
JOHNSON,
Eastman
1863, oil on
wood
Smithsonian American Art
Museum
God speaks in
the silence of the heart.
Listening is
the beginning of prayer.
~ Mother Teresa
The value of
consistent prayer is not that He will hear us,
but that we
will hear Him.
~ William McGill
Michael gave our
Painted Toe Society a nice tour
at Foothills Art Center on
Monday.
Our Evening Book Club had
an end-of-the-season
potluck
at Fran's home.
Delicious!!!
This is Barbara having some
of Fran's dessert.
At Wednesday breakfast,
Lori held up the sleep shirt
that Carmon (right) made
for Sylvia Brockner.
Tom Newsom, at our
Wednesday Breakfast, showed a NASA illustration that he
did.
No, those are not
photographs. They are paintings that Tom did. Tom is
especially
well
known for his Santa Claus paintings. See some
of them on his website:
Bob, at the Senior Resource
Center, shows off his painting
completely made up of
clocks. I hope his wife
will let us enter
it
in next year's Colorado
Alzheimer's Art
Show.
Karla and Kay at Bacco
Trattoria on Thursday.
Vicki and Sondra and I were
there too!
Elizabeth and Charlotte at
Rotary on Friday.
Charlotte has been our Rotary Exchange Student
from Copenhagen this year.
If we could all hear
one another's prayers,
God might be
relieved of some of his burdens.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
May 24, 2009 Seventh Sunday
of Easter
Previous OPQs may be found
at:
* Eastman Johnson painted The Lord Is My
Shepherd only months after the Emancipation Proclamation of New Year's Day,
1863. The image of a humble black man reading from his Bible was reassuring to
white Americans uncertain of what to expect from the freed slaves. But the
simple act of reading was itself a political issue. Emancipation meant that
blacks must educate themselves in order to be productive, responsible
citizens. In the slaveholding South, teaching a black person to read had been
a crime; in the North, the issue was not "May they read?" but "They must
read."
Agnus Day,
by James Wetzstein
Comment by the
Author/Artist: "I never
go to the theatre. There’s too many
hypocrites."
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
Psalm
1:1-6
1 John 5:9-13
John 17:6-19
