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Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: "Who is this that darkens
counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man, I will
question you, and you shall declare to me.
"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you
have understanding. Who determined its measurements — surely you know! Or who
stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its
cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings
shouted for joy?
["Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that a flood of waters may
cover you? Can you send forth lightnings, so that they may go and say to you,
'Here we are'? Who has put wisdom in the inward parts, or given understanding
to the mind? Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the
waterskins of the heavens, when the dust runs into a mass and the clods cling
together?
"Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young
lions, when they crouch in their dens, or lie in wait in their covert? Who
provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander
about for lack of food?"]
Job
38:1-7 [34-41]
The Lord Answering Job Out of the Whirlwind
BLAKE,
William
Watercolour
1805-06
The Pierpont
Morgan Library, New York, NY, USA
Illustrations
to the “Book of Job”
The Butts
set
http://www.biblical-art.com/artwork.asp?id_artwork=1819&showmode=Full
You are what you do,
not what you
say you'll do.
~ Carl Jung
Power always thinks ... that it is doing God's service
when it is violating all his laws.
~ John Adams
Lynn Gilbert
activating a glow light bracelet at Nancy Knudsen’s home
where we
discussed The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon.
Joan
Evashevski, Mary Ann Anderson, and Jackie Andrew
with their
bracelets.
Dr. Cindy
Stevenson,
Superintendent
of Jefferson County Schools,
was our
speaker at Rotary this week.
Cindy and I
sat at a table where this flag just happened to be displayed.
It is the
flag I brought back from Morioka, Japan, when Dottie, Jack, and I
visited
Robin and her family there years ago!
It is the
first time I have seen it since then.
Gretchen and
John MacArthur hosted our Dine Around group
in their
lovely home.
Needless to
say, I took a salad!
<gr>
True leaders
understand that leadership
is not about
them but about those they serve.
It is not
about exalting themselves
but about
lifting others up.
~ Sheri L.
Dew
October 21, 2012 Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost; 29th
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous
OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him,
"Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." And he
said to them, "What is it you want me to do for you?" And they said
to him, "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in
your glory." But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are
asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with?" They replied, "We are able."
Then Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink you will drink; and with
the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my
right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it
has been prepared."
When the ten heard this, they began to be angry with James and John. So Jesus
called them and said to them, "You know that among the Gentiles those whom
they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are
tyrants over them. But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become
great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you
must be slave of all. For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve,
and to give his life a ransom for many."
Mark
10:35-45
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the
permission of www.agnusday.org
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2012
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Job 38:1–7 (34–41)
Ps. 104:1–9, 24, 35c
Heb. 5:1–10
Mark 10:35–45