Compassion

 

 

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, "Woman, you are set free from your ailment." When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day." But the Lord answered him and said, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?" When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.

Luke 13:10-17

(Christ Healing the Crippled Woman Who Was Bent Over)

Known as the Two Brothers Sarcophagus

stone

Mid-fourth century

Vatican City, Direzione Generale dei Musei

Vatican City, Italy

 

The cock of St. Peter is depicted below Christ's feet.

Both Christ and Moses are clean-shaven.

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20130821124511718&code=act&RC=51253&Row=32

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fear grows out of the things we think;

it lives in our minds.

Compassion grows out of the things we are,

and lives in our hearts.

~ Barbara Garrison

 

 

 

May I live this day compassionate of heart,

clear in word, gracious in awareness,

courageous in thought, generous in love.

~ John O'Donohue

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chew and Chat

It's the first time in ages that all six of us were there!

Kay Owen, Jackie McFarland, Carolyn Alexander, Sondra Kellogg, Vicki Hall, Karla Byrd

 

Jeanne Caney, Eileen Sharkey, and Lurlie Bickford 

at our Book Club Thursday evening.

 

Adrian Stone, our new Exchange Student whose name I do not yet know,

Carolyn Alexander, and Janee Weinberger were four of the eight people being honored at

Rotary for August birthdays.

 

Arnie Elliot and Mary Van Sant

 hosted a party for our yoga class Friday evening.

 

 

My car … I helped shuttle vendors for the Fine Arts Festival today.

It is always interesting!

 

 

Beth Erlund at her booth where many of her wonderful batiks were displayed.

http://www.erlundjohnsonstudios.com/Beth/

 

 

Congratulations, William Alexander!

Their Rock Camp group played in front of 

an audience of 500 last Sunday.

 

 

Pure joy on the drums!!!

 

Watch live!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbEZCWNcuIk

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faqVr9Il5hk

 

 

 

 

 

Teach this triple truth to all:

A generous heart, kind speech,

and a life of service and compassion

are the things that renew humanity.

~ Buddha

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 25, 2013    Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

                                                            Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

                                                            Proper 16

 

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

 

 

 

The Bent Woman

http://www.progressiveinvolvement.com/progressive_involvement/2013/08/lectionary-blogging-pentecost-14-luke-13-10-17.html

 

 

 

Jeremiah 1:4–10 with Psalm 71:1–6

Isaiah 58:9b–14 with Psalm 103:1–8

and

Hebrews 12:18–29 

Luke 13:10–17