Forgiveness;
Remember, Restore, Renew
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This
month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month
of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of
this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household.
If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest
neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the
number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old
male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until
the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of
Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the blood and
put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the
fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled
in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. You
shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the
morning you shall burn. This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your
sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it
hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. For I will pass through the land of
Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute
judgements: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses
where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall
destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
This day shall be a day of remembrance for you.
You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations
you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance
Exodus 12:1-14
Feast
of the Passover
BOUTS,
Dieric
Between
1464 and 1467
Sint
Pieterskerk
Leuven,
Belgium
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who
love poorly.
The hard truth is that all people love poorly.
We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour
increasingly.
That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the
weak that is the human family.
~
Henri Nouwen
The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week,
the year,
and trying to figure out where we have come from and where
we are going to,
for sifting through the things we have done and the things
we have left undone
for a clue to who we are and who, for better or worse, we
are becoming.
~
Frederick Buechner
The
Evergreen Community Garden is glorious!
This
is my week to water the Rotary plot.
Oh,
no! Beautiful, but it is much too early!!!
Chihuly at the Denver Botanic Gardens at night!
We
went to a BBQ at the Gardens on Thursday evening.
At
first there was just a sprinkling of rain …
…
and then there were a LOT more drops!
It
certainly made for lovely reflections.
Then
it REALLY rained!
We
certainly would not have chosen to go in the rain,
but
it had a fascinating beauty to it.
AND …
it definitely was not crowded!!!
Such
a delight!
Forgiveness is an act of the will,
and the will can function regardless
of the temperature of the heart.
~
Corrie ten Boom
September 7, 2014 Thirteenth Sunday
after Pentecost — 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 18
Two or Three
"If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax-collector. Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them."
Matthew 18:15-20
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Sunday Lectionary:
Exodus
12: 1-14
Psalm 149
Romans 13: 8-14
Matthew 18: 15-20