There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
 a time to be born and a time to die …

 

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

 

 

 

Third Sunday in Lent

 

Turn/Repent

and

Gratitude



At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did."

Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener, 'See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?' He replied, 'Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.'"

 

Luke 13:1-9

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The Gardener and the Fig Tree

Stained Glass

Dungarvan, Waterford

Ireland

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20130226872955322&code=ACT&RC=54307&Row=15

 

 

 

 

 

Bloom where you are planted.*

~ Saint Francis de Sales

 

 

 

 

We shall have to repent,

not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people,

but for the appalling silence of the good

people.

~ M. L. King Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

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David Cuin’s book signing at Hearthfire Bookstore

 

 

 

 

Remembering

Vicki Hall’s sister …

Jan Barclay

April 16, 1937 ~ February 28, 2013

Springfield, Missouri

 

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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of …

 

from High Flight, by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

http://www.deltaweb.co.uk/spitfire/hiflight.htm

 

 

 

 

 

He is a wise man who does not grieve

for the things which he has not,

but rejoices for those which he has.

~ Epictetus

 

 

 

 

March 3, 2013    Third Sunday in Lent

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

       http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

*  The Bishop of Geneva, Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622) is credited with the quote, “Bloom where you are planted.” Later Mary Engelbreit made the phrase popular, and countless Biblical references seem to point to various verses in the Bible that carry a similar idea.

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

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http://fearlesslyjustme.blogspot.com/2012/08/living-fearlessly-bloom-where-you-are.html

 

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http://pinterest.com/pin/70509550387625873/

 

 

Isaiah 55:1–9

Psalm 63:1–8

1 Corinthians 10:1–13

Luke 13:1–9