Epiphany of the Lord

We Three Kings …

In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, "Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage." When King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him; and calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born. They told him, "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it has been written by the prophet:

'And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who is to shepherd my people Israel.'"

Then Herod secretly called for the wise men and learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared. Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child; and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage." When they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road.

Matthew 2:1-12

Adoration of the Magi

HE QI

2001

China

Dr. He Qi is a professor at the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary and a tutor for master candidate students in the Philosophy Department of Nanjing University. He is also a member of the China Art Association and a council member of the Asian Christian Art Association.

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=46114

As we work to create light for others,

we naturally light our own way.

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

We are weaned from our timidity

in the flush of love’s light

we dare be brave

And suddenly we see

that love costs all we are

and will ever be.

Yet it is only love

which sets us free.

~ Maya Angelou,

from “Touched by an Angel”

Eileen Sharkey, her husband Jim Darling, and I

enjoyed a delicious meal at Willow Creek on New Year’s Eve.

The deck was a perfect place for some people to watch the 8:00 fireworks.

The skaters at the New Year’s Eve Skate the Lake (in the background)

stopped to watch the display.

WE watched from inside the restaurant in warm comfort!

Blurry, but fun.

A wonderful display.

Danna Cuin and Carmon Slater

with their latest creations at Wednesday Breakfast!

The ice sculptures from the New Year’s Eve competition

were still lovely with the below freezing temperatures at the lake on Wednesday.

2013!

Amelia (Spaghetti Fingers) and her parents, Jen and Marcus Pennell,

hosted a lovely tea for Sondra Kellogg

at Wystone’s Tea Room in Belmar.

Mimi, Sondra, Dodi, Francie

Happy Birthday, Sondra!

The 3rd Annual Pond Hockey Championship at Evergreen Lake started this morning at 7:00.

The finals will be held tomorrow afternoon.

I love the shadows.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary

that you forget the ordinary.

~ Magdalen Nabb

January 6, 2013 Epiphany of the Lord

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The Three Wise Men: Caspar, Melchior, Balthasar

(Not necessarily pictured in that order.)

Three Wise Men

http://catholicnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/12/sunday-january-2-2011-feast-of-epiphany.html

The Wise Men
By G.K. Chesterton

Step softly, under snow or rain,
To find the place where men can pray;
The way is all so very plain
That we may lose the way.

Oh, we have learnt to peer and pore
On tortured puzzles from our youth,
We know all labyrinthine lore,
We are the three wise men of yore,
And we know all things but the truth.

We have gone round and round the hill
And lost the wood among the trees,
And learnt long names for every ill,
And served the mad gods, naming still
The furies the Eumenides.

The gods of violence took the veil
Of vision and philosophy,
The Serpent that brought all men bale,
He bites his own accursed tail,
And calls himself Eternity.

Go humbly…it has hailed and snowed…
With voices low and lanterns lit;
So very simple is the road,
That we may stray from it.

The world grows terrible and white,
And blinding white the breaking day;
We walk bewildered in the light,
For something is too large for sight,
And something much too plain to say.

The Child that was ere worlds begun
(…We need but walk a little way,
We need but see a latch undone…)
The Child that played with moon and sun
Is playing with a little hay.

The house from which the heavens are fed,
The old strange house that is our own,
Where trick of words are never said,
And Mercy is as plain as bread,
And Honour is as hard as stone.

Go humbly, humble are the skies,
And low and large and fierce the Star;
So very near the Manger lies
That we may travel far.

Hark! Laughter like a lion wakes
To roar to the resounding plain.
And the whole heaven shouts and shakes,
For God Himself is born again,
And we are little children walking
Through the snow and rain.

G. K. Chesterton, “The Wise Men,” in G. K. Chesterton Collected Works Volume X Collected Poetry Part 1 (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1994), 186-187.

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

Isaiah 60:1–6

Psalm 72:1–7, 10–14

Ephesians 3:1–12

Matthew 2:1–12