Liberty and Freedom
Thus says the Lord:
"Rejoice
with Jerusalem, and be glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice
with her in joy,
all you who mourn over her--
that
you may nurse and be satisfied
from her consoling breast;
that
you may drink deeply with delight
from her glorious bosom.
For thus says the Lord:
I
will extend prosperity to her like a river,
and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and
you shall nurse and be carried on her arm,
and dandled on her knees.
As
a mother comforts her child,
so I will comfort you;
you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
You
shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
your bodies shall flourish like the grass;
and it
shall be known that the hand of the Lord is with his
servants,
and his indignation is against his enemies."
Isaiah 66:10-14
Virgin
and Child with Saint Anne
DÜRER,
Albrecht
1519
Metropolitan
Museum of Art
New
York
NY
United
States
This picture, by the greatest German Renaissance artist, was
intended for private devotion. It depicts Saint Anne (who was particularly
venerated in Germany) with her daughter, the Virgin Mary, and the Christ Child.
The motif of the Virgin adoring the sleeping Christ Child was probably inspired
by the Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini whose art Durer admired during his two
trips to Italy. Durer's wife, Agnes, who remained childless throughout her
life, was the true model for Saint Anne...the picture was probably painted in
1519, around the time that Durer became keenly interested in the teachings of
Martin Luther.
The connection with the Isaiah 66 passage about God's love being as a mother's is carried one generation further with the Grandmother participating. The story of Anne, Mary's mother, is extra-canonical.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_Dürer_-_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saint_Anne.jpg
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.
~
Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear the government there
is tyranny,
when the government fears the people there
is liberty.
~ John Basil Barnhill
“I’m sorry!!!"
This
is JAK saying he is sorry for giving me such a very bad scratch
when
he was trying to jump up on my lap!
Such
a sweet doggie.
(Most
of the time.)
It
didn’t keep me from playing golf and enjoying lunch though!
Anna
Marie Nelson, Karen Hume, Carolyn Alexander, and Rita Sullivan
enjoying
lunch at Keys on the Green.
The
Parson Family was back at the Center for the Arts Evergreen
to
give an interesting Artist Talk.
Their
Exhibit, Three Views: Contemporary Work
will
be on view until August 11, 2016.
The
asbestos is gone in our new Center for the Arts Evergreen!
Once
they got started, it took them only a week to strip the former
Schoolhouse
down to its original structure inside.
Now
the construction goes out for bids.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast
be supplemented
by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
~ Viktor E. Frankl*
July 3, 2016 Fourteenth Sunday
in Ordinary Time/Seventh Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 9
* He wrote: "Freedom,
however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of
the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose
positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating
into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness."
The Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. He said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road. Whatever house you enter, first say, `Peace to this house!' And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you. Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the laborer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house. Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; cure the sick who are there, and say to them, `The kingdom of God has come near to you.' But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, `Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.'
"Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."
The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!" He said to them, "I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
2 Kings 5:1-14 with Psalm 30
or
Isaiah 66:10-14 with Psalm 66:1-9
Galatians 6:(1-6), 7-16
Luke 10:1-11, 16-20