Following is no easy task!

Humility*

 

Jesus said, “Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever." He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?" But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, "Does this offend you? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But among you there are some who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him. And he said, "For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father."

 Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him. So Jesus asked the twelve, "Do you also wish to go away?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."

John 6:56-69

 

“But the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

 

FROM: Supper at Emmaus

CARRAVAGIO

1606

Pinacoteca di Brera

Milan, Italy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supper_at_Emmaus_(Caravaggio),_Milan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wash out your ego every once in a while,

as cleanliness is next to godliness

not just in body but in humility as well.

~ Abbe Yeux-verdi

 

 

 

 

Let me keep my distance, always, from those

who think they have the answers.

 

Let me keep company always with those who say

“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,

and bow their heads.

~ Mary Oliver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Club at Van’s

Jackie Andrew, Tina Nelson, Nancy Knudsen

 

 

Van Farnsworth

 

 

A Day with Bruce Marion Workshop

Friday, August 21, 2015

Center for the Arts Evergreen

I did not take this workshop, but I stopped twice during the day

to take pictures for the Art Center.

 

 

 

 

The finished product.

Bruce Marion is presently exhibiting at the AMAZING Mirada Fine Art Gallery.

Parmalee Gulch Road

Indian Hills, Colorado

http://www.miradafineart.com

 

 

At the lake this morning, we saw this beauty!

 

 

And then he flew away.

 

Dine Around with Anna Harry

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Anna and Paul

 

 

Barbara and John

 

 

Larry and Maria

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flattery is all right

so long as you don’t inhale.

~ Adlai Stevenson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 23, 2015  13th Sunday after Pentecost—21st Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 16

 

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Humility

There are a billion people in China.  It’s not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people.  

Think of it.  More than a BILLION people.  That means even if you’re a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.  

~ A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

 

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Kings 8(1, 6, 10-11), 22-30, 41-43

Psalm 84

Ephesians 6:10-20

John 6:56-69