There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
 a time to be born and a time to die …

 

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

 

 

 

 

Nathan admonishes David


When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him. When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord, and the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds; but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. He brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his meager fare, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him. Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was loath to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb, and prepared that for the guest who had come to him." Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man. He said to Nathan, "As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die; he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity." Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from the hand of Saul; I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added as much more. Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, for you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. Thus says the Lord: I will raise up trouble against you from within your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this very sun. For you did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun." David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord."

 

2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a

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Nathan Admonishes King David

GELDER, Aert de

1683

Fuji Art Museum

Tokyo, Japan

http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_218202/Aert-De-Gelder/Nathan-admonishes-King-David

 

 

 

 

 

Because I could not stop for Death –

He kindly stopped for me – 

The Carriage held but just Ourselves – 

And Immortality.
~ Emily Dickinson *

 

 

 

 

The day which we fear as our last

is but the birthday of eternity.

~ Seneca

 

 

 

 

 

Remembering our brother …

Keith Wilson Alexander

October 11, 1930 - August 1, 2012

 

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 5, 2012   Tenth Sunday after Pentecost; 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:
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*  Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal."

Then they said to him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?" Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." So they said to him, "What sign are you going to give us then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" Then Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." They said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always." Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

 

John 6:24-35

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

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Purge me with hyssop,
and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be purer than snow.

Psalm 51:7

 

Asperges me hyssopo et mundabor

DALI, Salvador

1964-67

gouache

http://www.dalionline.com/biblia3-3.html

 

 

 

2 Sam. 11:26–12:13a

Ps. 51:1–12

Eph. 4:1–16

John 6:24–35