Deep
Water
Once while Jesus
was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him
to hear the word of God, he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the
fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of
the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way
from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. When he
had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the
deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” Simon answered, “Master,
we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will
let down the nets.” When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their
nets were beginning to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat
to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they began
to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go
away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!” For he and all who were with him
were amazed at the catch of fish that they had taken; and so also were James and
John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon,
“Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching
people.” When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything
and followed him.
Luke
5:1-11
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes,
1545
Jacopo
Bassano, 1510-1592
This painting, which came to
light in 1989, is a major addition to the work of Jacopo Bassano. One of the
four leading mid-to-late sixteenth-century Venetian painters, Jacopo is less
well-known than are his contemporaries Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto. Only
with the exhibition of his work in his native town of Bassano del Grappa in 1992
did the artist finally get the recognition he deserves.
Our chief want
is someone who will inspire us
to be what we
know we could be.
~
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The goal of many
leaders is to get people
to think more highly
of the leader.
The goal of a great
leader is to help people
to think more highly
of themselves.
~ J. Carla
Nortcutt
We thoroughly enjoyed
A Man for All Seasons.
Another
serious morning at Rotary.
Kimra and Chuck promoting
faaaaaaaaaabulous Valentine Kits
to benefit the Evergreen Rotary
Foundation.
Todd
Caryn West spoke to our Rotary Group about her book,
The Trouble with the
Alphabet, Through the Eyes of Innocence.
It is an artistic,
poetic, and literary journey into the heart of human rights violations and
suffering of children around the world. With one country represented by each
letter of the alphabet, the book addresses the many heart wrenching issues
plaguing the world's children: genocide, child labor, human trafficking, the use
of child soldiers, poverty, AIDS, and the devastating effects of corrupt
governments to name a few.
The
Trouble with the Alphabet
by
Caryn West
Watch this
dramatic video using photos and paintings from her book!
or
Jim with his
harem(?) at Paula's Caffè di
Lucca!
Sharron, Eileen, Jim,
Kathy, Rebecca, and Carolyn
after our Saturday
walk at the lake.
Well, Eileen and I
walked.
... the
place God calls you to
is the place where
your deep gladness
and the world's deep
hunger meet.
~ Frederick Buechner
February 7, 2010 Fifth
Sunday in Ordinary Time (Epiphany 5C)
Previous OPQs may be found at:
Paul wrote:
Now I would remind you, brothers
and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn
received, in which also you stand, through which also you are being saved, if
you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to
believe in vain. For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn
had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures,
and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance
with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he
appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of
whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to
all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I
persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his
grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any
of them—though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then
it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you have come to
believe.
1 Corinthians
15:1-11
Agnus Day,
by James Wetzstein
Colorado Haiti Project
(CHP)
Children's Medical Mission
of Haiti (CMMH)
From Gretchen in Haiti:
"The Minister of
education just asked for a tent for his family now living in the
street.
Shelter box tents with Rotary emblems are abundantly
apparent." ...
Gretchen Glode
Berggren, M.D., M.Sc.Hyg.
Harvard School of Public Health (retired
faculty)
Children's
Medical Mission of Haiti (CMMH)
Member:
Rotary Club of Evergreen, Colorado
Shelter
Box
Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)
Psalm 138
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Luke 5:1-11
