Be Love

 

Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God's righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.

But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act-they will be blessed in their doing.

If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 1:17-27

 

Song of Solomon 2:8-13

The voice of my beloved!

Look, he comes, 

leaping upon the mountains, 

bounding over the hills. 

My beloved is like a gazelle 

or a young stag. 

Look, there he stands 

behind our wall, 

gazing in at the windows, 

looking through the lattice. 

My beloved speaks and says to me: 

  

“Arise, my love, my fair one, 

and come away; 

for now the winter is past, 

the rain is over and gone. 

The flowers appear on the earth; 

the time of singing has come, 

and the voice of the turtledove 

is heard in our land. 

The fig tree puts forth its figs, 

and the vines are in blossom; 

they give forth fragrance. 

Arise, my love, my fair one, 

and come away.” 

Le Cantique des cantiques III (detail)

CHAGALL, Marc

Musée du Message Biblique Marc-Chagall

Nice

France

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54655

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With life as short as a half-taken breath,

don’t plant anything but love.

~ Rumi

 

 

 

 

What you do speaks so loudly

I can’t hear what you are saying.

~ Henry Adams *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Bruin was in a tree next to Wulf Recreation Center

when I went to exercise Thursday morning.

 

 

Rita Carver, Linda Lovin

Linda had a lovely “Kick Your Sandals Off” party for the female Rotary members

Thursday evening.

 

 

Highland Haven Creekside Inn

hosted a dinner party for some donors

to the Capital Campaign for Center for the Arts Evergreen

Gail Riley, owner of Highland Haven, with Barbara McEldowney

http://www.highlandhaven.com

 

 

Barbara Sternberg, Carolyn Alexander, Ann Moore

 

 

Center for the Arts Evergreen

Capital Campaign Committee

Steve Sumner, Carol Dobbs, Peggy Eggers, Ruth Morehouse, Warren Rose, Anne Vickstrom, Rome Chelsi

 

 

George Long, Greg Dobbs

 

 

Jeanne Canny and Tarah Nellis

at our Book Club selection meeting in Lurlie’s gorgeous kitchen.

 

 

Our Rotary Club met at The Wild Game Friday morning.

After breakfast, some people explored some of the offerings.

 

 

Hanna Holt tried out a motorcycle.

 

 

Carolyn (CV) Martyn brought yummy appetizers to a luncheon in

Nancy Priest’s lovely garden (in spite of all their hail) garden on Thursday.

 

 

Nancy Priest with celebratory hats for each of us!

 

 

Nancy Priest, Lori Williamson, Jackie McFarland, CV Martyn.

 

Lori and I were the August Birthday Gals!

 

 

Carolyn Alexander

 

 

Last Friday

Humphrey Museum

August 28, 2015

Art in the Park Uncorked: “Of the Earth”

Artwork by Lynne Milliken and Gail Frasier

Angela Rayne, Director,  Gail Frasier, Clay Artist

 

 

Bonnie Vivian and Pete Martinez

had a VERY nice wedding reception by the pool at the Four Seasons Denver

Saturday evening!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is never too late

to be what you might have been.

~ George Eliot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 30, 2015  14th Sunday after Pentecost—22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 17

         

Previous OPQs may be found at:

 

 

* A similar quote is attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

 

 

 

 

Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,

'This people honors me with their lips, 

but their hearts are far from me; 

in vain do they worship me, 

teaching human precepts as doctrines.' 

You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."

Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Song of Solomon 2:8-13 with Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9  or
Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 with Psalm 15
James 1:17-27
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23