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

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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

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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!!!

 

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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

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

 

 

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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/

 

 

 

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2 Sam. 11:1–15

Ps. 14

Eph. 3:14–21

John 6:1–21