Courage
The king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. On the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me-- that is my petition-- and the lives of my people-- that is my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king." Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?" Esther said, "A foe and enemy, this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
Then
Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, "Look, the
very gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king,
stands at Haman's house, fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang
him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for
Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
Mordecai recorded these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same month, year by year, as the days on which the Jews gained relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and presents to the poor.
Esther 7:1-6, 9-10;
9:20-22
Esther
and Haman before Ahasuerus
VICTORS,
Jan
1639
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
Cologne
Germany
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Notes: |
"Then Queen
Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases
the king, let my life be given me—that is my petition—and the lives of my
people—that is my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be
destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as
slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; but no enemy can
compensate for this damage to the king." Then King Ahasuerus said to
Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?"
Esther said, "A foe and enemy, this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was
terrified before the king and the queen. -- Esther 7:3-6 |
You must do the thing
you think you cannot do.
~
Eleanor Roosevelt
Above all, be the heroine of your life,
not the victim.
~
Nora Ephron
Vicki
Hall and I drove up to Echo Lake last Sunday.
Gorgeous!
The colors have not quite peaked yet except in the passes.
The
elk have been finishing off what is left of my flowers.
I
always tell them they are welcome to the flowers after September 1st,
but
I don’t really mean it.
Jeanne
Gibbard and I saw “Saturday Night Fever" at the Arvada Center.
Lurlie
Bickford served refreshments at our Thursday Evening Book Club.
Kay
LaMontagne’s proposal received the most votes for the Rotary Legacy project.
She
will be implementing the Evergreen Rotary Musical Park with the $30,000.
Some
of us were disappointed that the Center for the Arts Evergreen did not receive
the
money, but the musical park will be a wonderful addition to Evergreen!!!
Kay
has been working toward this goal for many years.
Brandy
Llewellyn at the Humphrey Museum.
Astonishing
work! Her husband, Rhys, took the black and white photograph of the house
in the Cotswolds
and
Brandy hand tinted it. Then she incorporated it into her Sailor’s
Valentine shell painting.
Brandy
Llewelyn
Sailor’s
Valentine Artist
http://evergreenbound.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=134&t=3340
She
also teaches Nantucket Basket weaving.
Opening Reception, Design Center, Evergreen
Betsy
Buckner had several of her bears on display as well as some
new
landscape art.
Margaretta
and Brewster Caesar.
Many,
many moons ago, I had one of their daughters in my 5th grade class.
Margaretta’s
paintings are amazing.
Jim
and Anita Kreider admiring one of Margaretta’s paintings.
Merit
Helman-Funk had a lovely brunch for five of us on the deck of their gorgeously
furnished home.
Don
Funk sitting on their Upper Deck.
George
and Anna Marie Nelson
Carolyn
Alexander
Anna
Marie and George insisted that my picture be taken for a change.
I
love this picture of Don Funk in their enormous antique chair.
Squiggy
(sp.?)
Sidney
Gray-Kurtz with her mother, Vayann Gray.
Vayann
was one of my Alzheimer’s artists at the
Seniors’
Resource Center and is celebrating
her
90th birthday.
Some think that holding on makes us
strong;
but sometimes it is letting go.
~ Herman Hesse
September 27, 2015 18th Sunday after
Pentecost—26th Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 21
John said to Jesus, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us." But Jesus said, "Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.
"If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these
little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone
were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. If your hand
causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed
than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your
foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame
than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell., And if your eye causes you
to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with
one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell, where their worm
never dies, and the fire is never quenched.
"For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
Mark 9:38-50
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
Esther
7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22
Psalm 124, or
Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29
Psalm 19:7-14
James 5:13-20
Mark 9:38-50