'In him we
live and move and have our being'
Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, "Athenians, I see how
extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and
looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar
with the inscription, 'To an unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown,
this I proclaim to you. The God who made
the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does
not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as
though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and
breath and all things. From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the
whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of
the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps
grope for him and find him — though indeed he is not far from each one of us.
For 'In him we live and move and have
our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we too are his
offspring.'
"Since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is
like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of
mortals. While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands
all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will
have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of
this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
Acts 17:22-31
Hand of God
giving life to Adam *
Michelangelo Buonarroti,
1475-1564
1508-1512
Sistine Chapel
Vatican Palace, Vatican
City
There’s
never a wrong time to do the right thing.
~ David
Cameron **
Living with integrity means...
behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
~ Barbara
De Angelis
Memories in
the Making
An Art Program Sponsored
by the Alzheimer’s Association
Artists’ Reception
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Debbie, Sally
Debbie is an employee at
the Life Care Center of Evergreen and Sally is one of our wonderful Alzheimer
artists.
Ed is a Memories in the
Making Artist at a Denver site.
His wife and I were fellow
volunteers at the Denver Art Museum.
Ed remembers that he was
an architect, but he doesn’t remember what a very outstanding architect he was!
Make-Over Party
Twenty-two of us attended
a Make-Over Party to benefit the Rotary Foundation.
What fun!
We all had make-up
applied, hair styled, pictures taken, new outfits to try, and wonderful food!
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Native
Roots | Modern Form: Plants, Peoples and the Art of Allan Houser
The
Denver Botanic Gardens
May 1
through November 13, 2011
Six of us had a perfect
outing at the Denver Botanic Gardens!
After all our rain (snow
in Evergreen) it was a gorgeous, sunny day.
Sacred Rain
Arrow
Allan Houser
1988
Dineh
Allan Houser
1981
And THEN we had lunch and
a party with the
BIRTHDAY GIRLS!
Nancy
Jackie
CV
The sun is new every day.
~ Heraclitus
May 29, 2011 Sixth Sunday of Easter
Previous OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
* "Sometimes painters and sculptors are ahead
of scholars when they suggest new interpretations of Scripture. For example,
when Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Julius II to decorate the vaulted
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he was asked by the pontiff to read the biblical
commentaries of a Dominican scholar. Michelangelo read them, but he went his
own way. Thus, in the fresco of the creation of man, he represented God
transmitting, finger-to-finger, to the newly sculpted body of Adam, the spark
of life. Under the left arm, God harbored a beautiful young woman, whom art
historians, to this day, identify as the yet-uncreated Eve. Such a traditional
interpretation is not convincing. In this fresco, the image of the young woman
differs markedly from the picture of Eve which appears elsewhere on the vaulted
ceiling of the chapel. In the representation of Adam receiving the spark of
life, the young woman is Lady Wisdom, a personification of the Creator's
intelligence, which is found in the sapiential literature of the Old
Testament." (God's Word/Samuel Terrien, 268)
** Also attributed to others.
[Jesus
said:] "If you love me, you will
keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you
another Advocate, to be with you for ever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom
the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know
him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.
"I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the
world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will
live. On that day you will know that I
am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments
and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my
Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them."
John 14:15-21
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Acts 17:22-31
Psalm 66:8-20
1 Peter 3:13-22
John 14:15-21