Happy Birthday,

U.S.A.

The Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

- St. Francis (Francesco) of Assisi
  Italy
  13th century

 

Liberty is always dangerous,
but it is the safest thing we have.

                                                            ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

How little do my countrymen know
what precious blessings they are in possession of,
and which no other people on earth enjoy!

                                                            ~Thomas Jefferson

 

Vicki’s friends, Denise and Michael, have a BIG pond in their back yard!

JAK loved it.

Denise and Michael kept JAK and Woofie for three days and now

I have them until Vicki comes home on Monday.

“Bob” is 20 inches long.

Several of us celebrated CV’s birthday in Silver Plume …

… and had some chuckles!

Beautiful poppies

 

To live in hearts we leave behind
is not to die.

                                                                  ~ Thomas Campbell

 

Remembering

Vicki’s Aunt Amy Lou

Amy Lou Haymes

May 26, 1920 – June 29, 2010

Monett, Missouri

We helped celebrate Amy Lou’s 89^th birthday with her in Missouri a year ago.

Amy Lou Haymes

A very special person in the lives of many.

IN THE GARDEN

I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.

Refrain

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

He speaks, and the sound of His voice,
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.

Refrain

I’d stay in the garden with Him
Though the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go; through the voice of woe
His voice to me is calling.

Refrain

Words & Music: C. Aus­tin Miles, March 1912 MI­DI

July 4, 2010      Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Previous OPQs may be found at:      

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

… Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. …

Galatians 6:(1-6) 7-16

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org

2 Kings 5:1-14

Psalm 30

Galatians 6:(1-6) 7-16

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20