Faith and Truth

 

23“O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book! 24O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever! 25For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; 26and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God, 27whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

Job 19:23-27a

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Job and his Wife

LA TOUR, Georges de

1625-1650

Musée Départemental des Vosges, Épinal, France

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-processquery.pl?code=ACT&SortOrder=Title&LectionaryLink=CProp27

(Georges de La Tour’s) early works were painted in a realistic manner and influenced by the dramatic chiaroscuro of Caravaggio. The paintings of La Tour's maturity are marked by a startling geometric simplification of the human form and by the depiction of interior scenes lit only by the glare of candles or torches. His religious paintings done in this manner have a monumental simplicity and a stillness that expresses both contemplative quiet and wonder. Little is known of his life, and only four or five of his paintings are dated. The chronology and authenticity of some works attributed to him are still debated.

http://www.answers.com/topic/georges-de-la-tour

 

 

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know.
He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
For in this context, to know is not to know.
And not to know is to know.

~ The Tao te Ching

 




Beware of the half truth.
You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

~ Author Unknown

 

 

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A dozen or so Rotarians attended church last Sunday to hear Kimra preach. 

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Our Painted Toe Society had a potluck this week. Arlene is cutting her famous cheesecake as Linda watches.
I love Linda’s sweatshirt. It says, “Eschew obfuscation.”

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Arlene and her husband just returned from Russia and they brought back not one, but two Fabergé eggs!!!

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Carmon made another gourd birdhouse and brought it to Wednesday breakfast.

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Donald shows how Carmon made a hinged opening on the bottom for easier cleaning.

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Vicki took this picture of me (Carolyn) and Karla (and Kay’s nose on the left) at our monthly lunch get-together.

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Dr. Marcia administering flu shots at Rotary this week.

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Deborah and Harold had a Winter’s On Its Way Party on Friday.

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Some of the elk from my patio this morning. They stretched farther in both directions. The one in the foreground had been munching on the remains of my patio flowers and ambled away when I went outside.

 

 

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
~ e.e. cummings

 

 

November 7, 2010        Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous OPQs may be found at:      

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* It also appears in the Sanskrit.
Or … "The wise man knows he doesn't know. the fool doesn't know he doesn't know." (Lao Tzu)

 

Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.” Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.”

Luke 20:27-38

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

Haggai 1:15b—2:9 or Job 19:23-27a

Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21 or Psalm 98

2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17

Luke 20:27-38

He who spits against heaven, gets it in the eye. Fulton Sheen