Confusion, then Clarity
Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and terrified,
and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, "Why are you
frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I
myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see
that I have." And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his
feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to
them, "Have you anything here to
eat?" They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in
their presence. Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to
you while I was still with you — that everything written about me in the law of
Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled." Then he opened
their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, "Thus it is
written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third
day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his
name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these
things."
Luke 24:36-48
Jesus’ Hand Reaches Out to
the Children
Sculpture, freestanding
Washington Cathedral
Washington, DC
I shut my eyes in order to see.
~ Paul Gauguin
The moments when we meet and reckon with contradictions
are turning points where we either enter or evade
the mystery of God.
~ Parker Palmer
Linda Lovin, Ann
Moore, and Dale Lovin
at a Dine-Around
Dinner at the Moore’s VERY green home this week.
Dale is a former
FBI agent and I read his first novel,
The Mirror in the River, while we were in Hawaii.
Joan and Emily at
Bunco on Tuesday evening.
Van, Ginny, and
Joan at Book Club Thursday afternoon.
We read Saving CeeCee Honeycutt,
which was delightful.
Jane Weinberger,
the Director at the Senior Resource Center,
pours wine at a
very nice Volunteer Appreciation Event Thursday Evening.
Ashley Shuyler was
home from Stanford and came to Rotary.
Here she is with
Bill Manning.
I believe in God with all my doubts.
~ Madeleine L’Engle
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Agnus
Day, by James Wetzstein
Acts 3:12–19
Ps. 4
1 John 3:1–7
Luke 24:36b–48