Prayer
Jesus
was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples
said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."
He said to them, "When you pray, say:
Father,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us.
And do not bring us to the time of trial."
And he said to them, "Suppose one of
you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, `Friend, lend
me three loaves of bread; for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing
to set before him.' And he answers from within, `Do not bother me; the door has
already been locked, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and
give you anything.' I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him
anything because he is his friend, at least because of his persistence he will
get up and give him whatever he needs.
"So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given
you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For
everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone
who knocks, the door will be opened. Is there anyone among you who, if your
child asks for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish? Or if the child
asks for an egg, will give a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to
give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give
the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
Give
Us This Day Our Daily Bread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clarke_Hook#/media/File:James_Clarke_Hook_-_Give_us_this_day_our_daily_bread.jpg
Prayer is not asking.
It is a longing of the soul.
It is a daily admission of one’s weakness.
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
~
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer does not change God,
but it changes the one who prays.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
Summerfest
Gina
Simpson, Sally Korff, and Carolyn Alexander
manning
the ticket booth last Sunday.
Photo by Linda Kirkpatrick
We
celebrated a successful Summerfest weekend at our Center for the Arts Evergreen
Board meeting Wednesday evening.
Here,
Jim Sherwood is giving Steve Sumner, our Executive Director, a bottle of
popular winde.
Mary
Steinbrecher did an amazing job chairing the event.
Book Club
Jackie
Andrew hosted our Book Club where
we
discussed Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys.
A Celebration of Women of Strength
Thursday,
July 21, 2016
Laurie
Romberg, on the right, with her sister, Bonney.
Laurie
had a very lovely party for 30 or 40 special women in her life.
Laurie’s
three daughters, Erica, Bekah, and Alex (home for the summer from England).
Laurie
gave each of us a LOVEly remembrance of the celebration.
Jill
Hesser hosted a “Cottage Meeting” for our church on Friday.
Rebecca
Martin was visited by this little bruin for many hours of an afternoon!
Her
new friend stayed off the patio this time.
He
loved using the tree as a scratching post!
Photos by Rebecca Martin
There are really only two kinds of prayer:
help me, help me, help me, and
thank you, thank you, thank you.
~ Anne Lamott
July 24, 2016 Seventeenth Sunday
in Ordinary Time/Tenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 12
Previous
OPQs may be found at:
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
In Memoriam
Gudrun “Gudy" Gaskill
1927 ~ 2016
Photo
taken at Painted Toe Society on Gudy’s birthday last February.
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/07/18/gudy-gaskill-dies-colorado-trail/
Barbara Sternberg
1923 ~ 2016
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/07/19/barbara-sternberg-obituary-dies-93/
Two exceptional women.
Trailblazers, both!
Remembering
William “Bill” McFarland
(Jackie McFarland’s husband)
1922 ~ 2016
Hosea 1:2-10 with Psalm 85 or
Genesis 18:20-32 with Psalm 138
Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19)
Luke 11:1-13
