Boldness and Forgiveness
But filled with the Holy Spirit, he gazed into heaven and saw
the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. "Look,"
he said, "I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the
right hand of God!" But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all
rushed together against him. Then they dragged him out of the city and began to
stone him; and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named
Saul. While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit." Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, "Lord, do
not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he died.
Acts 7:55-60
Stoning
of Stephen
UCCELLO,
Paolo
1435
Duomo
Prato
Prato,
Italy
Those sections of the
fresco cycle that are attributed to Paolo in the Chapel of Our Lady of the
Assumption in Prato Cathedral display a perfect compositional organization,
created through a precise perspective pattern that places the simple, elegant
buildings and the numerous human figures within a perfectly balanced spatial
rhythm. Each of the characters have a different expression, evidence of a
research into facial characteristics which will later become typical of
Uccello's painting.
The accuracy and the perfect perspective of the drawing of the building in the Disputation of St Stephen is repeated also in the constructions in the background of the Stoning of St Stephen, for this reason correctly attributed to Uccello; the scene of Stephen's martyrdom, on the other hand, is the work of Andrea di Giusto.
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/u/uccello/2prato/02prato.html
The tyrant dies and his rule is over,
the martyr dies and his rule begins.
~
Søren Kierkegaard
I can no longer condemn or hate
a brother for whom I pray,
no matter how much trouble he causes me.
~
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Vicki
Hall at Grappa’s in Belmar on Mother’s Day.
Her
sweater was appropriate for our weather!
Our
lovely spring weather for Mother’s Day wasn’t quite what we had anticipated.
Gretchen
MacArthur and Marcia Walsh sold tickets for a Style Show
at
Bits & Pieces on Wednesday evening to benefit Mountain Reads.
Sarah,
Sandy, and Vicki — Bits & Pieces Style Show
We
had good food as well as a style show.
On
Thursday, our church Book Club went to Nancy and Ken Knudsen’s
new
home at Balfour Senior Living in Louisville, Colorado.
Nancy’s
birds live there too.
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The
resident duck paraded her newly hatched ducklings.
Ana
Dodson was our speaker at Rotary this week.
When
Ana was eleven, in 2003, she first spoke to our Rotary group.
Ana graduates from Colorado College in Colorado Springs on Monday!!!
She
started Peruvian Hearts and, more recently, Peruvian Promise. Ana has
received numerous awards and recognition for her work and accomplishments
including being named a Young Hero by CNN and People magazine;
she has spoken at a number of youth gatherings and other
events including at the United Nations, the Peace Jam, and the
Journey for Hope Concert at Red Rocks.
What
a joy it has been to watch her grow and mature over these last eleven years!
http://www.peruvianhearts.org/promise.html
Danny,
Ana, Judi, and Rocco Dodson
Ana
was adopted in Cuzco, Peru, by the Dodson’s 19 years ago, when she was three.
Beautiful
reflections in the lake this morning!
Our
first sight of a new-born (just) elk this year!
Carolyn
Alexander, Sondra Kellogg, Mary Carlson, Barb Scripps, and Dori Painter
having
Afternoon Tea on Saturday at The Briarwood Inn.
This is the end—
for me the beginning of life.
~
Dietrich Bonhoeffer *
May 18, 2014 Fifth Sunday of Easter
Previous OPQs may
be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
* Bonhoeffer’s final words to his fellow prisoners on April 8, 1945, in his last morning service for them in Schoenberg, near the primary court at Flossenbürg. There he was hanged in the early morning of April 9, 1945.
[Jesus said:] "Do not let your hearts be troubled.
Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house there are many
dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare
a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and
will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you
know the way to the place where I am going." Thomas said to him,
"Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?"
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father
also. From now on you do know him and have seen him."
Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the
Father, and we will be satisfied." Jesus said to him, "Have I been
with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen
me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Do you not
believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say
to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his
works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you
do not, then believe me because of the works themselves. Very truly, I tell
you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact,
will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. I will do
whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If
in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.”
John 14:1-14
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Acts 7:55-60
Psalm 31:1-5,15-16
1 Peter 2:2-10
John 14:1-14