Women of Courage
 

Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me—that is my petition—and the lives of my people—that is my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king." Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?" Esther said, "A foe and enemy, this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
Esther 7:3-6

Esther and Haman before Ahasuerus
VICTORS, Jan
1638-40
Wallraf-Richartz Museum
Cologne, Germany
http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20090926356689453&code=ACT&RC=54179&Row=1
 
 
 
All serious daring starts from within.
                                                    ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
 
 
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
                                                    ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
At Painted Toe on Monday, Michael gave us a tour of the Rocky Mountain
National Water Media Show at Foothills Art Center.
 
Lori and Miriam
 
Jeri and Barbara at Book Club on Thursday evening.
I reviewed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
Such fun!!!
 
We had serious things happen at Rotary this week!
 
The snow is gone, but it was definitely frosty Saturday morning!
 
 
Our Rotary Club sponsored the Annual Recycling Day on Saturday.
 
 
 
It was windy and the Styrofoam people had
a little trouble containing what they collected.
 
 
Hazardous waste
 
 
 
 
 
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
                                                            ~ Marian Wright Edelman *
 
 
 
 
 
September 27, 2009    Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
Previous OPQs may be found at:      
                http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
 
 
   *    http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/marian_edelman.htm
 
 
 
John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us." But Jesus said, "Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.
Mark 9:38-50
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
 
http://zorowski.com/churchmice/frames.htm
 
SUNDAY NIGHT!!!
 
Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22
Psalm 124
James 5:13-20     http://www.heartlight.org/gallery/436.html   
Mark 9:38-50