Gratitude

Do we really "see" each other?

 

 

 

On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, they called out, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were made clean. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus asked, "Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" Then he said to him, "Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well."

Luke 17:11-19

Jesus Heals the Ten Lepers

Unidentified Artist

17th Century

 

 

 

 

Gratitude is the most exquisite 

form of courtesy.

~ Jacques Maritain

 

 

 

 

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought,

and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

~ G.K. Chesterton

 

 

 

 

 

 

View from the window at our Wednesday Breakfast on May 12, 2013.

The grass on the little island still had its winter brown and later 

turned a lovely green for all the critters to munch.

 

View from the same window on October 9, 2013, 

after the flood waters swamped the area.

You can see how the horrendous flooding swept away the topsoil and deposited more rocks.

The waters have greatly subsided now, but are still very high for this time of year.

Amazing!!!

 

 

Evening for the Arts

A Night of Magic

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

at Christie's of Genesee

Congratulations, Laurie Romberg!

2013 Arts Person of the Year

Evergreen, Colorado

 

Lisa DeCaro, Laurie Romberg, Gail Montgomery

 

Dine Around

Friday, October 11, 2013

at Mimi Nelson's home

Dori Painter, Mimi Nelson, Brenda Hagerman

 

Brenda Hagerman, Bob Meade

 

Dori Painter, Bob Hagerman

 

 

 

 

In case you failed to notice, in case you failed to see,

this is my heart, bleeding before you,

this is me down on my knees.

~ Jewel Kilcher

 

 

 

 

 

October 13, 2013     Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 29:1, 4–7 

Psalm 66:1–12 

2 Timothy 2:8–15 

Luke 17:11–19