Now every year
his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was
twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. When the festival was
ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but
his parents did not know it. Assuming that he was in the group of travelers,
they went a day's journey. Then they started to look for him among their
relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem
to search for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among
the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard
him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him
they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Child, why have you
treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in
great anxiety." He said to them, "Why were you searching for me? Did
you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" But they did not
understand what he said to them. Then he went down with them and came to
Nazareth, and was obedient to them. His mother treasured all these things in
her heart.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor.
Luke 2:41-52
The Twelve-Year Old Jesus Teaching in
the Temple
DÜRER,
Albrecht
1494—1497
Gemäldegalerie
Alte Meister
Dresden
Germany
One resolution I have made, and try always to
keep, is this:
To rise above the little things.
~ John Burroughs
We spend January 1 walking through our lives,
room by room,
drawing up a list of work to be done,
cracks to be patched.
Maybe this year, to balance the list,
we ought to walk through the rooms of our
lives...
not looking for flaws, but for potential.
~ Ellen Goodman
This
was taken before bountiful Santa
arrived.*
We
had a lovely White Christmas!
Deborah
and Harold Linke had a lovely party this evening.
Harold
with his friend, Tom.
Peter
and Peggy Eggers
It
is difficult to say what is impossible,
for
the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and
the reality of tomorrow.
~
Robert H. Goddard
December 30,
2012 First Sunday after Christmas
Previous OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
* Abbi, Vicki’s niece-in-law, said after unwrapping all
their gifts, “I think Chance (who just turned six) summed it up yesterday
morning when he looked around at all our gifts and said, ‘I don't think we have
all been this good!!!’"
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
Agnus Day
appears with the permission of www.agnusday.com
1 Samuel
2:18-20, 26
Psalm 148
Colossians 3:12-17
Luke 2:41-52