Fragments
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent
Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and
besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened, late one
afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of
the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very
beautiful. David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported,
"This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite."
So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he lay with her.
(Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her
house. The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, "I am pregnant."
So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab
sent Uriah to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the
people fared, and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, "Go
down to your house, and wash your feet." Uriah went out of the king's
house, and there followed him a present from the king. But Uriah slept at the
entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go
down to his house. When they told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house,"
David said to Uriah, "You have just come from a journey. Why did you not
go down to your house?" Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and
Judah remain in booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are
camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink,
and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do
such a thing." Then David said to Uriah, "Remain here today also, and
tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day.
On the next day, David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made
him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants
of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest
fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and
die."
2
Samuel 11:1-15
Bathsheba
BRULLOFF,
Karl
1832
Tretjakov
Gallery, Moscow
Unfinished
http://www.biblical-art.com/artwork.asp?id_artwork=11426&showmode=Full
The miracle
is not to fly in the air,
or to walk
on the water;
but to walk
on the earth.
~ Chinese
Proverb
You cannot
follow the shepherd all by yourself;
you are
stuck with the flock.
~ Barbara
Brown Taylor
Denver
Botanic Gardens
May 5 –
November 4
2012
This
season’s signature exhibition, Kizuna: West Meets East, brings together
two installation artists working in bamboo: Tetsunori Kawana and Stephen
Talasnik. Through different working methods, both artists employed the
versatile natural material of bamboo to create large site-specific works for
the Gardens.
http://www.botanicgardens.org/kizuna
Jeanne
treated me to lunch and a wonderful stroll through the gardens and the amazing
installations!
Thank you,
JEANNE!!!
Amazing!!!
Free your heart from hatred -- forgive.
Free your mind from worries -- most never
happen.
Live simply and appreciate what you have.
Give more. Expect less.
~ Stephen Covey *
July 29, 2012 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost—17th
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
* Stephen Richards Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was an American educator,
author, businessman and motivational speaker. His most
popular book was The Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Covey
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the
Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs
that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there
with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. When
he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip,
"Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?" He said this to
test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him,
"Six months' wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a
little." One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,
"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are
they among so many people?" Jesus said, "Make the people sit
down." Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down,
about five thousand in all. Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given
thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much
as they wanted. When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, "Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be
lost." So they gathered them up,
and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten,
they filled twelve baskets. When the people saw the sign that he had done, they
began to say, "This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world."
When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make
him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself. When evening came, his
disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started across the sea to
Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea became
rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or
four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and
they were terrified. But he said to them, "It is I; do not be
afraid." Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the
boat reached the land toward which they were going.
John
6:1-21
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the
permission of www.agnusday.org
http://www.cruzblanca.org/hermanoleon/
A Gracious Plenty
May God meet your deepest hungers of body and soul with
extravagance and grace.
And may we know how to receive—and give—such feeding.
http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/07/30/a-gracious-plenty/
2 Sam. 11:1–15
Ps. 14
Eph. 3:14–21
John 6:1–21