Generosity
Jesus said, "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. He called out, `Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.' But Abraham said, `Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony. Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.' He said, `Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house-- for I have five brothers-- that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.' Abraham replied, `They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.' He said, `No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' He said to him, `If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"
Luke 16:19-31
Rich
Man and the Poor Lazarus
TERBRUGGHEN,
Hendrik
1625
Centraal
Museum
Utrecht
Netherlands
The rich man and the poor Lazarus is one of the major
historical pieces that Terbrugghen painted in his last years in Utrecht.
The period is characterized by strong contrast between light and dark;
massive, three-dimensional forms and sombre, unbroken colours. For
aesthetic reasons, a strip of about thirty centimetres (about one foot) was
added to the top at a later date.
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/the-rich-man-and-the-poor-lazarus/nwGdfR1Asi9YSQ
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
If you realize you are only a violin,
you can open yourself up to the world
by playing your role in the concert.
~
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Attention is the rarest
and purest form of generosity.
~
Simone Weil
Foothills Art Center on Monday
Board of Director’s Best in Show
Expressions in Black and White, by Karen Poulson
Jan
Schoonveld hosted Bunco on Tuesday evening.
Imperial
Chinese Restaurant
431
S. Broadway
Denver,
Colorado
After
golf on Wednesday, Anna Marie Nelson, Karen Hume, and I
ate
at the Imperial Chinese Restaurant.
Center for the Arts Evergreen
Capital Campaign Appreciation Party
Thursday,
September 22, 2016
At a lovely private home
Evergreen,
Colorado
An
amazing home!!!
This
is the exterior of the stables.
The
trainer’s office in the stable.
In
front of the indoor arena.
Part
of the dining room.
Center
for the Arts Evergreen Director Steve Sumner thanking everyone
for
their donations.
We
still have a lo-o-o-o-ong way to go!!!
CV
and Gary Martyn were guests for the event.
Tom
Johnson and Jack Kellogg were honored at Rotary on Friday as
founding
members of the Rotary Club of Evergreen 31 years ago!!!
Two
amazing men!
Kimra
Perkins, Mark Vickstrom, Carolyn Alexander
Carolyn Seymour: A Retrospective and Celebration of Art
Opening:
Friday, September 23, 2016
Center
for the Arts Evergreen
Carolyn
Seymour, 94, with a grandson and his wife who came from Indiana for the show.
http://www.evergreenarts.org/exhibits.php
Seymour
family members came from Alaska, Florida, Pennsylvania,
and
Indiana to help celebrate with Carolyn Seymour.
Director
Steve Sumner with Carolyn Alexander, Carolyn Campbell, and Carolyn Seymour.
Bruce
and Joan Evashevski at their Oktoberfest
Friday
evening.
Saturday
was Rotary Recycling Day.
(This
is for you, Jack!)
Jeanne
Gibbard and I thoroughly enjoyed Sister Act
at
the Arvada Center on Saturday afternoon.
There are always flowers for those who want to
see them.
~ Henri Matisse
September 25, 2016 Twenty-sixth Sunday
in Ordinary Time/Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 21
Previous OPQs may
be found at:
There is great gain in godliness combined with contentment; for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it; but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
But as for you, man of God, shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life, to which you were called and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep the commandment without spot or blame until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he will bring about at the right time-- he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords. It is he alone who has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see; to him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty, or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous, and ready to share, thus storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of the life that really is life.
1 Timothy 6:6-19
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
[Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 with
Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16] or
Amos 6:1a, 4-7
Psalm 146
1 Timothy 6:6-19
Luke 16:19-31