Possessions
Then Job answered:
"Today also my complaint is bitter;
his hand is heavy despite my
groaning.
O that I knew where I might find him,
that I might come even to his
dwelling!
I would lay my case before him,
and fill my mouth with arguments.
I would learn what he would answer me,
and understand what he would say to
me.
Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power?
No; but he would give heed to me.
There an upright person could reason with him,
and I should be acquitted for ever
by my judge.
"If I go forward, he is not there;
or backward, I cannot perceive him;
on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him;
I turn to the right, but I cannot
see him.
"God has made my heart faint;
the Almighty has terrified me;
If only I could vanish in darkness,
and thick darkness would cover my
face!"
Job
23:1-9, 16-17
Job and His False Comforters
FOUQUET,
Jean
1452-60
Illumination
on parchment, 194 x 146 mm
Musée Condé, Chantilly
The picture
shows a miniature from the Book of Hours of Étienne Chevalier.
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/f/fouquet/bookhour/miniatu9.html
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot.
In your soul
are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
~ Oscar
Wilde
You only
lose what you cling to.
~ Buddha
(attributed to)
I used my
iPhone panorama setting to record our Wednesday Breakfast group a week ago.
Danna Cuin
is taking a class where she is learning to make this tote.
This week
our Breakfast Group went to Marion’s of the Rockies
in Idaho
Springs. Good down-to-earth food.
On Friday
evening, Gretchen MacArthur and I helped set up the silent auction
items for
Saturday night’s Country Fair.
Al Steger
demonstrated how we should sell tickets.
Saturday
morning at the lake.
The elk kept
coming from the hill across the road and caused
quite a
traffic jam!
There were
more than 60 that we counted before we turned and
walked
around the lake in the opposite direction.
Our Rotary
Country Fair fundraiser was Saturday night.
Lots of
carnival delights!
Dramatically
disappointed losers in the Cake Walk.
(Could you
guess that they are all members of The Evergreen Players?)
Bidding was
animated!!!
Betsy
Buckner Kane and her husband, Bob (on the left),
were the
high bidders for two weeks on the Costa Brava.
In all
abundance there is lack.
~
Hippocrates
October 14, 2012 Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost; 28th
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous
OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and
asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
You know the commandments: 'You shall not murder; You shall not commit
adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not
defraud; Honor your father and mother.'" He said to him, "Teacher, I
have kept all these since my youth." Jesus, looking at him, loved him and
said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to
the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."
When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many
possessions.
Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will be
for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!" And the disciples
were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, "Children,
how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom
of God." They were greatly astounded and said to one another, "Then
who can be saved?" Jesus looked at them and said, "For mortals it is
impossible, but not for God; for God all things are possible."
Peter began to say to him, "Look, we have left everything and followed
you." Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left
house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my
sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now
in this age—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields,
with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first
will be last, and the last will be first."
Mark
10:17-31
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the
permission of www.agnusday.org
Job 23:1–9, 16–17
Ps. 22:1–15
Heb. 4:12–16
Mark 10:17–31