Struggles

 

The same night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, "Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me." So he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." Then the man said, "You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed." Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 

Genesis 32:22-31

Vision After the Sermon, or

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

GAUGUIN, Paul

1888

National Gallery of Scotland

Edinburgh

Scotland

 

http://www.imerodromos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1280px-Paul_Gauguin_137-1040x750.jpg

 

 

Gauguin started off landscape painting in the summer en plein air but following the creation of Vision After the Sermon he focused increasingly on interpreting religious subject matter in a highly personal way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_After_the_Sermon

 

 

Interesting discussion of the painting in the following video!

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/avant-garde-france/post-impressionism/v/gauguin-vision-after-the-sermon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If there is no struggle,

there is no progress.

~ Frederick Douglass

 

 

 

 

Once all struggle is grasped,

miracles are possible.

~ Mao Zedong

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Joy,” by Barbara Edwards Sternberg

from her Memorial Service.

 

 

At Painted Toe on Monday, Joyce Shelton shared some of the items that 

the Vida Design Company have produced using some of her art images.

http://shopvida.com/collections/joyce-shelton

 

 

 

Rocky Mountain Literary Festival

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Mt. Vernon Country Club

9:00 - 3:00

Coleen Skates from Bootstraps Scholarships with Tim Johnson, author of Descent.

Tim was one of our five speakers.

A wonderful event!

 

 

 

An Evening in Paradise: A Tropical Escape

Center for the Arts Evergreen Annual Evening for the Arts

Saturday, October 15, 2015

El Rancho, Colorado

6:00 - 11:00

Carolyn Campbell was honored as our Arts Person of the Year.

 

 

Steve Sumner, Executive Director of Center for the Arts,

with one of the dancers from the Polynesian Fiafia group from Samoa.

 

 

Betsy Buckner with Frances the Flamingo.

 

 

Nancy and Walt Pawluczkowycz of Evergreen Goldsmiths.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calvin: ”There’s no problem so awful that 

you can’t add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

~ Bill Watterson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 16, 2016     Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 24

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

As for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you: proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths. As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.

 

2 Timothy 3:14-4:5

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

comic

 

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

 

 

 

http://www.warrencampdesign.com/heartyBoys/luke/part3/week59.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jeremiah 31:27-34 with Psalm 119:97-104] or
Genesis 32:22-31
 with Psalm 121 and
2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 and
Luke 18:1-8