Second
Sunday of Advent
Peace
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was
governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler
of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during
the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of
Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around the Jordan,
proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is
written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,
"The voice of one crying out in
the wilderness:
'Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.
Every valley shall be filled,
and every mountain and hill
shall be made low,
and the crooked shall be made straight,
and the rough ways made smooth;
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"
Luke 3:1-6
John the Baptist
fragment
of mosaic
12th
century
Ayasofya
Müzesi
Istanbul,
Turkey
We are never
more discontented with others than when we are
discontented with ourselves.
~ Henri Frederic Arnier
Nobody
can bring you peace but yourself.
~
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday
was a Thank You Party for Colorado Gives Day donors
at
the Center for the Arts Evergreen.
“Old
Saint Nick”
Clay,
Vintage Fur
$1,500
by
Gayle
Mohatt
Cathy
Taylor, Joan Knudsen (mother of a former student!).
Brenna
Vaughn auctioned off some tickets.
Jeanne
and I were delighted with
Miracle of 34th Street
at
the Arvada Center!
Eileen
Sharkey and Sharron Leonard at the opening reception
for
Artists With Altitude and Christie’s of Genesee.
We
went there before going out to dinner.
Laura
Mehmert, Sharron Leonard, and Joan Evashevski
in
front of some of Laura’s art pieces.
Harold
Linke bought one of Melony Smith’s amazing black horse photographs.
We
finally celebrated Rebecca’s birthday
at
the Chart House.
Gretchen
Berggren and Ann Moore at our Dine Around Holiday Party.
Gretchen
MacArthur and Sondra Kellogg.
We
had our gathering at Gretchen’s lovely home.
Maria
Camp and Jim Hill
At
the lake on Saturday morning,
the
Evergreen Fire Department was training their volunteers
in
ice water rescue procedures.
They
sawed four holes before the trainees arrived.
The
firemen donned wetsuits when it was their turn.
They
each had to “fall” into one hole in the ice, climb out,
and
then continue to “rescue” the victim in another hole.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
The
elk were hunkered down resting before the
approaching
(at last!!!) snow.
The
Evergreen Chorale
presented
Messiah
by
G. F. Handel
with
The Jefferson Symphony Orchestra
at
Central
Presbyterian Church
Denver,
Colorado
On
the way home we had a glimpse of the
Holiday
Lights on the Denver City and County Building.
There
is no greatness where there is not simplicity.
~
Leo Tolstoy
December 9,
2012 Second Sunday of Advent
Previous OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
Agnus Day
appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
John
the Baptist points to Christ,
as
depicted by Matthias Grünewald (1470-1528).
This
was a favorite image of the theologian Karl Barth.
http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/worship/advent/
Detail
from the Isenheim Altarpiece
Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, France
http://www.artbible.info/art/large/320.html
Malachi
3:1–4
Luke 1:68–79
Philippians
1:3–11
Luke 3:1–6