Healing
Now
Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there
appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She
was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he
called her over and said, "Woman, you are set free from your
ailment." When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight
and began praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because
Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, "There are six
days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not
on the sabbath day." But the Lord answered him and said, "You
hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from
the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this woman, a
daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from
this bondage on the sabbath day?" When he said this, all his opponents
were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful
things that he was doing.
Luke 13:10-17
Vietnam Women’s Memorial
GOODACRE,
G. (Glenna)
1993
National
Mall
Washington,
D.C.
United
States
The scripture reading from Luke for today tells the story of Jesus' healing of the woman who was bent and unable to stand. This particular healing episode is noted in scripture because it provoked the leader of the synagogue to reproach Jesus for healing on the sabbath.
The photograph of the powerful sculpture by Diane Carlson Evans [the photo] for the Vietnam Women’s Memorial flips the story a bit. In the sculpture, the women are doing the healing, an act of mercy many times over, regardless of time of day, day of week, week of year. These women and men of the medical teams give much to allow wounded soldiers to "be set free from this bondage," the bondage of death.
Like Luke's woman who was bent over, many of the soldiers who are served by the medical services, return to their homes with physical disabilities from their injuries. The physical as well as social barriers to a fulfilling work and family life can be difficult to surmount. Jesus the Healer calls the faithful to support those who struggle with disabilities and to pray for strength and hope for these who bear that burden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Women%27s_Memorial
Nothing is so healing
as the human touch.
~
Bobby Fischer
Did I offer peace today?
Did I bring a smile to someone’s face?
Did I say words of healing?
Did I let go of my anger and resentment?
Did I forgive?
Did I love?
These are the real questions.
I must trust that the little bit of love
that I sow now will bear many fruits,
here in this world and the life to come.
~
Henri Nouwen
Another
birthday dinner!
Thank
you, Rebecca, Eileen, Joan, and Sharron for the wonderful
evening
and dinner at Simms Steakhouse!!!
Peggy
and Rick Egloff received our Rotary Club’s Ethics in Business Award
presented
to Rick and Tuscany Tavern.
Colorful Colorado: The Culture of the Front Range
Center for the Arts Evergreen
Opening Reception: Friday, August 19, 2016
Best
of Show went to
Carolyn Woodfin Wood Larsen.
Her
painting is behind her and titled
Fishwater: Little Snake Run
Acrylic
on Watercolor Canvas
Carolyn
Larsen with Susan Howard, who received 2nd Place.
Mountain
Layers: Peregrine Falcon
silver,
copper, brass, bronze
by
Susan Howard
Lynne
Milliken, from our Wednesday Breakfast Group,
was
awarded an Honorable Mention!
Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready
to have someone click the shutter.
~
Ansel Adams
August 21, 2016 Twenty-first Sunday
in Ordinary Time/Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 16
You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. (For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death." Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear.") But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking; for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven! At that time his voice shook the earth; but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven." This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of what is shaken-- that is, created things-- so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe; for indeed our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 12:18-29
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
(Jeremiah
1:4-10 with Psalm 71:1-6) or
Isaiah 58:9b-14 with Psalm 103:1-8 and
Hebrews 12:18-29 and
Luke 13:10-17
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