Courage and Compassion
Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not
know Joseph. He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more
numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or
they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against
us and escape from the land." Therefore they set taskmasters over them to
oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses,
for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread,
so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. The Egyptians became
ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, and made their lives bitter with
hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were
ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.
The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives,
one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, "When you act as
midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy,
kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live." But the midwives feared
God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys
live. So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why
have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?" The midwives said to
Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for
they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them." So God
dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong.
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. Then Pharaoh
commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall
throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live."
Now a man from the house of Levi went and
married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw
that he was a fine baby, she hid him for three months. When she could hide him
no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and
pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the
river. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.
The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at
the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket
among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the
child. He was crying, and she took pity on him. "This must be one of the
Hebrews' children," she said. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter,
"Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child
for you?" Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes." So the girl
went and called the child's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take
this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages." So the
woman took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to
Pharaoh's daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses,
"because," she said, "I drew him out of the water."
Exodus: 1:8-2:10
The
Finding of Moses
LOEMANS,
Alexander Francois
American
(Canadian,
born in France)
1870s
Museum
of Fine Arts Boston
Boston,
Massachusetts
USA
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-finding-of-moses-33102
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three
universally recognized moral qualities of men.
~
Confucius
I am not a champion of lost causes,
but of causes not yet won.
~
Norman Thomas
What
a delightful late afternoon Jeanne Gibbard and I had viewing the Chihuly
installation
at
the Denver Botanic Gardens on Monday!
Simply
amazing!
Jeanne
and Graham Gibbard served a lovely dinner after our stroll with Chihuly.
Jan
Schoonveld was our hostess for Bunco on Tuesday evening.
Ginny
Bailey and Tina Nelson at our Afternoon Book Club on Thursday.
Both
Book Clubs met this Thursday!
Twelve
of us in our Evening Book Club met at Lurlie Bickford’s fascinating home
that
evening and we selected our books for the coming year.
Friday
morning our Rotary Club met at Jefferson County’s Outdoor Education Laboratory
School.
After
breakfast, we broke into small groups and were given tours.
Lab
School for 6th grade students starts on Monday for this school year.
Carolyn
Alexander at Outdoor Education Laboratory School.
I’ve
changed a bit since I first stayed at the Outdoor Lab School in August, 1968!!!
So
has the Lab School!
Early
Saturday morning, Rev. Mark Vickstrom and I took his Audi Quatro to the
Presbytery meeting in
Tabernash,
Colorado, where I took pictures of their meeting. A gorgeous morning!
The
new pastor of the Tabernash Presbyterian church, Rev. Paula, with
her
doggie, Olive.
Evergreen Fine Arts Festival
Saturday/Sunday, August 23-24, 2014
I
helped shuttle the vendors back to their cars late Saturday afternoon.
Interesting
conversations!
Beth
Erlund with some of her wonderful batik paintings.
Courage doesn’t always roar.*
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.”
~
Mary Anne Radmacher
August 24, 2014 Eleventh
Sunday after Pentecost — Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 16
Previous
OPQs may be found at:
Now when Jesus came into the district of
Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son
of Man is?" And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, but others
Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He said to them,
"But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are
the Messiah, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him,
"Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed
this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on
this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail
against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you
bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be
loosed in heaven." Then he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell
anyone that he was the Messiah.
Matthew 16:13-20
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
*
http://www.maryanneradmacher.net
Exodus 1:8-2:10
Psalm 124
Romans 12:1-8
Matthew 16:13-20