Labor Day Sunday

The voice of my beloved! Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice. My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away."

Song of Solomon 2:8-13

Le Cantique des Cantiques III

CHAGALL, Marc

1960

Musée du Message Biblique Marc Chagall

Nice, France

http://www.musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr/chagall/le-musee-et-ses-collections/collections/1948-1985-le-retour-en-france/le-message-biblique/le-cantique-des-cantiques-iii.htm

Too often our help remains hanging

somewhere between our minds and our hands.

~ Henri Nouwen

There are two ways of meeting difficulties:

you alter the difficulties or

you alter the way you meet them.

~ Phyllis Bottome

Our Wednesday Breakfast group ate at Echo Lake Lodge by Echo Lake

at 10,600 feet.

Jack and Ruth Salter, David Cuin

Beth Erlund, Gail and Bill Frasier

On Thursday, some of us celebrated August birthdays at Lori’s adobe home.

Lori is recuperating from a hip replacement.

CV, Linda, Lori, Jackie, Kathy, Nancy

Lori’s daughter, Sharon, was hiding.

Nancy Priest passed out goodies.

Betsy Buckner had an Opening Reception Friday evening at the Design Center.

The painting behind her is part of her more recent works.

Betsy is best known for her wild animal paintings.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

~ Stephen Covey

September 2, 2012 Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost; 22^nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Previous OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
'This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.' You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."

Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.

"For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

http://marketingartfully.com/2012/08/31/work-quotes-with-pictures-labor-day-quotes/

You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God's righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness …

James 1:17–27

http://www.heartlight.org/gallery/1930.html

S. of Sol. 2:8–13

Ps. 45:1–2, 6–9

James 1:17–27

Mark 7:1–8, 14–15, 21–23