Ascension of the Lord

A Parting Prayer

[Jesus said:] "I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them.

"And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

"Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth."

John 17:6-19

The High Priestly Prayer

BURNAND, Eugene

Stuttgart, 1900

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God does not exist to answer our prayers,

but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

~ Oswald Chambers

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

~ Maya Angelou

On Monday, Camille Scott gave our Painted Toe group a mini-workshop on batik using rice paper.

Thank you, CAMILLE!!!

I tried to do a batik of my great-nephew, Kei Sakamoto.

Kei lives in Tokyo and is running a BIG race on Sunday!

Go Kei!!!

Judi served ice cream and cake after we played Bunco on Tuesday evening.

Faerie IV

by Harold Linke

Harold brought this wonderful gold-plated

work to breakfast on Wednesday!

My photo does not do it justice.

Nancy and Ginny

Our Book Club met at Ginny’s on Thursday.

Jane Christie with her latest pastel creation.

(Please ignore the flash reflection.)

Laura Mehmert with another wonderful oil painting!

“Into the Mist”

by Sally Archer

Memories in the Making …

We lost Sally this last week … she was so special!

This was Sally’s second-to-last painting, which she actually finished in 2012.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent

and not enough time on what is important. 

~ Stephen R. Covey

May 20, 2012 Seventh Sunday of Easter

Previous OPQs may be found at:

http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

Ascension of the Lord—May 17

⁴⁴Then 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.”⁴⁵Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, ⁴⁶and 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. ⁴⁸You are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

⁵⁰Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. ⁵¹While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. ⁵²And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; ⁵³and they were continually in the temple blessing God.

Luke 24:44-53

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

Dharma Comics by Leah Pearlman
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=3132

Ascension of the Lord—May 17

Acts 1:1-11

Ps. 47:1-9 or Ps. 93:1-5

Eph. 1:15-23

Luke 24:44-53

7th Sunday of Easter—May 20

Acts 1:15–17, 21–26

Ps. 1

1 John 5:9–13

John 17:6–19