Labor Day
Count the Cost
Song of the Builders
On
a summer morning
I sat down
on a hillside
to think about God -
a
worthy pastime.
Near me, I saw
a single cricket;
it was moving the grains of the hillside
this
way and that way.
How great was its energy,
how humble its effort.
Let us hope
it
will always be like this,
each of us going on
in our inexplicable ways
building the universe.
~
Mary Oliver ~
(Why I Wake Early)
The
Laborer of Gibea Offering Hospitality to the Levite and His Wife (Book of
Judges 19:15-20)
THIEVAERT,
Daniel Jansz
(School
of Rembrandt)
Mid
1600s
Museum
of Fine Arts
Boston,
Massachusetts
United
States
The best social program is a job.
~
Ronald Reagan
We tend to overvalue the things we can measure
and undervalue the things we cannot.
~
John Hayes
Rev.
Kimra Perkins was our Guest in the Pulpit last Sunday.
Her
sermon was “The Gift of a Good Guide,”
told
in the first person by Elizabeth.
Kimra
Perkins
The
elk decided to rest by our mailboxes on Tuesday.
I
took these pictures from my car.
I
started to get out of my car to take a picture …
…
but I turned and saw this big boy watching me from twenty feet
away
and I changed my mind.
When
I got home later I discovered that they had also visited my patio.
They
particularly liked my gorgeous geraniums.
Gr-r-r-r-r-r!!!
Golf
Buddy Anna Marie and I had lunch at the Kachina Southwestern Grill
in
the Westin Hotel in Westminster on Friday.
Their
Navajo Tacos are wonderful!
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of
people:
those who do the work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group;
there was much less competition.
~
Indira Gandhi
September 4, 2016 Twenty-third Sunday
in Ordinary Time/Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 18
Labor Day weekend. The first Labor Day in the United States was
celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City. In the aftermath of the
deaths of a number of workers during a strike in 1894 Pullman President Grover
Cleveland helped rush through Congress. Pray for all who shoulder the tasks of
human labor—in the marketplace, in factories and offices, in the professions,
and in family living. For the gift and opportunity of work. For all who long
for just employment and those who work to defend the rights and needs of workers
everywhere.
Now large crowds were traveling with Jesus; and he turned and said to them, "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him, saying, `This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.' Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? If he cannot, then, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for the terms of peace. So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions."
Luke 14:25-33
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
[Jeremiah 18:1-11 with Psalm
139:1-6, 13-18 or]
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Psalm 1
Philemon 1:1-21
Luke 14:25-33
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