Happy Father's Day!
 

On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side." And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?" He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?" And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
Mark 4:35-41
Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee
Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn, 1633
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt99.html
 
In March, 1990, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, was robbed by two unknown men.  The thieves removed works of art whose value has been estimated at more than $300 million, including the above painting.
http://www.du.ac.in/hindi/course/material/ug/ba/euroart/hyperlinks%202/Rembrandt%20works.htm
 
 
 
 
It doesn't matter who my father was;
it matters who I remember he was.*
                                                        ~ Anne Sexton
 
 
 
 
Fear is that little darkroom where
negatives are developed.
                                                        ~ Michael Pritchard
 
 
 
 
Vicki and I saw funnel clouds over Lakewood on Sunday!
Fortunately, they did not touch down.
 
Vacation Bible School has been ALL week!!!
<gr>
 
 
 
Our church Book Club met in Van's gorgeous log home.
Several people had already left before I thought to take a picture.
I think I'm "pictured-out!"
 
Nina, Rick, and Ashley Shuyler
Benefit at Center Stage for AfricAid Thursday Evening
Evergreen, Colorado
 
 
Evergreen Rodeo Parade
June 20, 2008
Gail and Chuck Ridings
Evergreen Rodeo Association
 
The mechanical bull riding was popular ... even with adult kids.
 
In a weak moment, I agreed to collect money for
 Breast Cancer before and during the parade.
I certainly got plenty of walking in!!!
 
Sponsored by Wrangler
and American Rodeo Association
for Breast Cancer Research
 
 
This picture was for you and Buster, Cousin Joyce!
 
 

 

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

~ Kalidasa

 
 
 
June 21, 2009    12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
Previous OPQs may be found at:      
 
* Used before in 2002


Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements — surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy? "Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb? — when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'?"

Job 38:1-11

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

1 Samuel 17:32-49 or Job 38:1-11
Psalm 9:9-20
2 Corinthians 6:1-13
Mark 4:35-41