Bearing Fruit

 

 

Salvator Mundi

or Savior of the World

Leonardo da Vinci

1490-1519

Private collection, New York City

 

Salvator Mundi is a painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi recently attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, who is known to have painted the subject. It was lost and later rediscovered, and restored and exhibited in 2011. The painting shows Christ, in Renaissance garb, giving a benediction with his raised right hand and crossed fingers while holding a crystal sphere in his left hand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvator_Mundi_(Leonardo)

 

See: A Closer Look

http://arthistory.about.com/od/leonardo/ss/A-Closer-Look-at-Salvator-Mundi-by-Leonardo.htm

 

 

 

 

We are leaves of one branch,

the drops of one sea,

the flowers of one garden.

~ Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

 

 

 

 

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways

to kneel and kiss the ground.

~ Rumi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Workship Sunday

April 26, 2015

 

Burrito-making was one of the activities for Workship.

Actually, it is done each week for the Mean Street Ministry.

http://meanstreetministry.org/wp/

 

 

Our choir members sang at Elk Run Assisted Living 

and other members did work at EChO, Evergreen Christian Outreach.

 

 

At Wednesday Breakfast, Warren Roske brought a bird book organized by beaks 

to help Harold Linke identify a bird he spotted.

 

 

Also at Wednesday Breakfast, Beth Erlund, with Lynne Milliken, was here between Art Shows.

She had just come from several shows in Texas.

 

Birthday Celebrations

We took Joan Evashevski to Willow Creek to celebrate her birthday.

 

 

Kimra Perkins, the Butterfly Lady, was feted at Rotary on Friday for her birthday.

 

 

In Tokyo, Dean Robin Sakamoto was surprised with a cake and a decorated office

by the Foreign Studies faculty at Kyorin University for an early birthday celebration.

 

 

120 for 120

Center for the Arts Evergreen

May 1, 2015

Linda Lovin, Doug and Sue Brown, and Linda Kirkpatrick (of JustAroundHere.com)

 

 

We had a wonderful crowd for the event!

 

 

Executive Director Steve Sumner thanking Pam Lindquist 

for supplying the Coyote Gold Margaritas!

http://coyotegold.info

 

 

Here is a very happy man whose number was drawn early and got his first pick!

 

 

Anne and Mark Vickstrom, Ted Garcia

 

 

At the very last minute, I decided to take a Saturday workshop with

Slawa Radziszewska.  Maybe I can get motivated again?

http://slawna.com/wordpress/

 

 

 

 

 

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

 

 

May 3, 2015     Fifth Sunday of Easter

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

Jesus said to his disciples, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples."

John 15:1-8

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

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

 

Leonardo da Vinci Little Thinker Doll

at the Dali Museum

St. Petersburg, Florida

http://shop.thedali.org/new-arrivals/leonardo-da-vinci-doll.html

 


Acts 8:26-40
Psalm 22:25-31
1 John 4:7-21
John 15:1-8