Finding

Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them."

So he told them this parable: "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.' Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
 

"Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.' Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

Luke 15:1-10

The Lost Sheep

BONNELL, Daniel

Contemporary

Private Collection

Images on Christ Project

Artist's comment: "I think one of the great mysteries of this pilgrimage of following Christ is the depth of His love for us. We cannot begin to fathom His love and desire for us. Our highest and most lofty thought of worship, is equal to a baby opening its eyes for the first time. It is just the beginning, this discovery of unconditional love from our creator. I often tell my two sons, I am your earthly Father and I will fail you often, but your heavenly Father will never fail you, ever. In this painting of The Lost Sheep, we see that Father in the sun that embraces the shepherd and the sheep, a theme that I carry into another painting in this exhibition, The Forgiveness of the Father. I often think of how relieved this sheep must have been to have finally been found, its head rests securely on the head of its shepherd. The sheep has entered into true rest. May we all know that peace and security."

http://web.me.com/danielbonnell/Site_3/Painting_21.html

 

 

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing

that it is not fish they are after. 

~Henry David Thoreau

 

 

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

~ Ludwig Börne

 

 

Vicki and SuSu and I had lunch before SuSu left for Vail.

View from my patio:

NEVER, NEVER DO THIS!!!

It turned out all right, but you NEVER know what a wild animal might do!

The rutting season has begun and this big fellow is looking over his harem.

Some golfers could not wait and played right through the herd.

NOT a smart move. They even have kids with them.

The big guy got up and, fortunately for the golfers, took his frustration out on the females and young ones.

The golfers were VERY lucky.

Karen Sekich, our Rotary District Governor,

was our speaker this week.

We gave her a rousing welcome and

honored her farming background with white bib overalls with a Rotary symbol.

A cormorant at the lake this morning.

 

 

Each forward step we take

we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

~ John Lancaster Spalding

 

 

September 12, 2010    Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

Jitish Kallat: Public Notice 3

The Art Institute of Chicago

September 11, 2010–January 2, 2011
Grand Staircase

Overview: In the first major presentation in an American museum of Jitish Kallat’s work, the contemporary Indian artist has designed a site-specific installation that connects two key historical moments—the First World Parliament of Religions held on September 11, 1893, and the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on that very date, 108 years later. The resulting work, Public Notice 3, creates a trenchant commentary on the evolution, or devolution, of religious tolerance across the 20th and 21st centuries.

Partial mock-up of Jitish Kallat's Public Notice 3.

The basis for Kallat’s installation is a landmark speech delivered by Swami Vivekananda at the
Parliament, which was held in conjunction with the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in what is now the museum’s Fullerton Hall. The Parliament was the earliest attempt to create a global dialogue of religious faiths, and Vivekananda, eloquently addressing its 7,000 attendees, argued for an end of fanaticism and a respectful recognition of all traditions of belief through universal
tolerance.

With Public Notice 3, Kallat converts Vivekananda’s text to LED displays on each of the 118 risers of the historic Woman’s Board Grand Staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago, adjacent to the site of Vivekananda’s original address. Drawing attention to the great chasm between this speech of tolerance and the very different events of September 11, 2001, the text of the speech will be displayed in the colors of the United States’ Department of Homeland Security alert system. Opening on September 11, Public Notice 3 explores the possibility of revisiting the historical speech as a site of contemplation, symbolically refracting it with threat codes devised by a government
to deal with this terror-infected era of religious factionalism and fanaticism.

Read Swami Vivekananda's original 1893 speech.

Curator: Madhuvanti Ghose, Marilynn Alsdorf Curator of Indian and Islamic Art

Sponsor: Lead individual sponsorship is generously provided by the Burger Collection, Hong Kong, and Prabha and Anita Sinha.

Lead foundation sponsorship is generously provided by an anonymous fund at the Boston Foundation and the Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund.

Individual co-sponsorship is provided by Charles and Kathleen Harper. Additional support is provided by Abby O'Neil and Carroll Joynes, Nancy K. and Stuart J. Murphy, and Betty and Richard Seid.

Generous support is provided by members of the Exhibitions Trust: Anonymous, the Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sullivan.

The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/kallat

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28

Psalm 14

1 Timothy 1:12-17

Luke 15:1-10