Hospitality and Legacies

On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely.

When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, `Give this person your place,' and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, `Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."

He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sightless Among Miracles

WALLEN, Skip

Tropenmuseum

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Note:  The sculpture represents a boy who helps an older man who was blinded by Onchocerciasis (River Blindness).

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20160826749053955&code=ACT&RC=55625&Row=12

Hospitality is present when something happens for you.

It is absent when something happens to you.

Those two simple prepositions — for and to — express it all.

~ Danny Meyer

That the birds of worry and care fly over your head,

this you cannot change,

but that they build nests in your hair,

this you can prevent.

~ Chinese Proverb

Happy Birthday, Rebecca!

We celebrated Rebecca Martin’s birthday at the Bistro in Marshdale.

Her actual birthday is October 15th, but she leaves for India in two weeks

and won’t be back until January.

These fellows were attacking my neighbor’s shrubs Thursday morning.

I loved the early morning sun on their velvet.

Lurlie Bickford hosted our Book Club Thursday evening.

She has a wonderful big farmhouse style kitchen!

Ten of us, all educators, were honored at Rotary on Friday morning.

A lovely Brunch on Saturday at Linda Lovin’s home.

Our hostesses were Linda Lovin and Anna Harry.

Thank you, Linda and Anna!

Each person leaves a legacy — a single,

small piece of oneself,

which makes richer each individual life

and the collective life of humanity as a whole.

~ John Nichols

August 28, 2016 Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time/Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 17

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Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org

Gerald Lee “Jerry” Broyles

February 14, 1942 - August 20, 2016

Loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather.

Mary Broyles Alexander, Rose Mary Broyles, Jerry Broyles, Ann Broyles Heinz

Go Now in Peace

Go Now in Peace … Never Be Afraid.

God will go with you each hour of every day.

Go now in faith, steadfast, strong, and true.

Know He will guide you in all that you do.

Go now in love, and show you believe.

Reach out to others so all the world can see.

God will be there, watching from above.

Go now in Peace, in Faith, and in Love.

Amen, Amen, Amen.

Jeremiah 2:4-13 with Psalm 81:1, 10-16 
Proverbs 25:6-7 with Psalm 112
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Luke 14:1, 7-14