Wisdom
Greetings for a New Year
Now every year his
parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was
twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. When the festival was
ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but
his parents did not know it. Assuming that he was in the group of travelers,
they went a day's journey. Then they started to look for him among their
relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem
to search for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among
the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard
him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him
they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Child, why have you
treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in
great anxiety." He said to them, "Why were you searching for me? Did
you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" But they did not
understand what he said to them. Then he went down with them and came to
Nazareth, and was obedient to them. His mother treasured all these things in
her heart.
And Jesus increased in
wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor.
Luke 2:41-52
Twelve-year Old Jesus Teaches in the Temple
(Disputation with the Doctors)
DUCCIO, di Buoninsegna
Panel from the Maesta Altarpiece of Siena
1308 - 1311
Museo dell’Opera del Duomo
Siena, Italy
DISPUTATON
WITH THE DOCTORS
The last compartment of the front predella is devoted to the Disputation with the Doctors, recounted both in the gospel according to Luke and in the apocryphal writings of Matthew and the Infancy of Christ. The interior of the temple, dominated by a gaily coloured floor (described by Brandi as a "Caucasian carpet"), includes sophisticated details such as the four Cupids enclosed in little niches and the capitals of the slender pillars silhouetted against the gold background.
http://www.wga.hu/tours/siena/analysi1.html
Any fool can know.
The point is to understand.
~
Albert Einstein
We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge,
but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.*
~
Michel de Montaigne
The
view from I-70 last week before our snow storm.
There
was even more snow this week.
Skiers
are ecstatic!
Lizzie
Vickstrom and Will Vickstrom
at
their parents’ Christmas Potluck.
Lizzie
just returned from a semester in Argentina
and
Will now has a job back here in Denver.
Bunco
was at Sue Brown’s home on Tuesday evening.
Scott
and Betsy Martin had a Thank You party on Wednesday evening.
Caroline
Vickstrom (on the right) with a friend, Sidney.
Caroline
spent last year in Strasbourg, France, studying music.
Christmas
Eve Service at Church of the Hills
We
had a quiet Christmas … except that Woofie fell trying to get up on
the bed Christmas morning.
Today,
Vicki took him to the vet and learned that he has a broken tibia!
Surgery
is scheduled for Monday.
(Photo
by Vicki Hall)
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on,
with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
~
Hal Borland
December 27, 2015 First Sunday after
Christmas Day
* “That’s
because wisdom isn’t a body of information."
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
… clothe
yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
Colossians 3:12-17
1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26
Psalm 148
Colossians 3:12-17
Luke 2:41-52