Pentecost 3A

Answer me, O Lord, for your love is kind.

 

 

Salvum me fac

8 Surely, for your sake have I suffered reproach, *

        and shame has covered my face.

9 I have become a stranger to my own kindred, *

        an alien to my mother's children.

10 Zeal for your house has eaten me up; *

        the scorn of those who scorn you has fallen upon me.

11 I humbled myself with fasting, *

        but that was turned to my reproach.

[12 I put on sack-cloth also, *

        and became a byword among them.

13 Those who sit at the gate murmur against me, *

        and the drunkards make songs about me.

14 But as for me, this is my prayer to you, *

        at the time you have set, O Lord:

15 "In your great mercy, O God, *

        answer me with your unfailing help.

16 Save me from the mire; do not let me sink; *

        let me be rescued from those who hate me

        and out of the deep waters.

17 Let not the torrent of waters wash over me,

        neither let the deep swallow me up; *

        do not let the Pit shut its mouth upon me.]

18 Answer me, O Lord, for your love is kind; *

        in your great compassion, turn to me.'

 

19 "Hide not your face from your servant; *

        be swift and answer me, for I am in distress.

20 Draw near to me and redeem me; *

       because of my enemies deliver me.

Psalm 69: 8-11, (12-17), 18-20

 

Life Line

HOMER, Winslow

1884

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

United States

 

The dramatic rescue from a foundering ship shown here was made possible by a recent innovation in lifesaving technology, the breeches buoy. Secured firmly to ship and shore, the device permitted the transfer of stranded passengers to safety by means of a pulley that was hauled back and forth by crews at either end. Cropped down to its essentials, Homer's composition thrusts us into the midst of the action with massive waves rolling past, drenching the semiconscious woman and her anonymous savior. The Life Line was immediately recognized by critics as a major contribution to American art, portraying a heroic, contemporary subject with both painterly virtuosity and detailed observation. [from Philadelphia Museum of Art]

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20170624986114501&code=ACT&RC=55847&Row=7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer is not asking.

It is a longing of the soul.

It is daily admission of one’s weakness.

It is better in prayer to have a heart without words

than words without a heart.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

 

 

The ethic of wonder is how we listen to the Earth:

waiting for the gift until things that matter

repeat themselves through our love,

until we kiss the hollowed things put in our way.

All this leads us to our song.

~ Mark Neppo

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Book Club met at Donna Bucholz’ home

and she served a wonderful patriotic gluten-free dessert.

 

 

Carolyn (CV) Martyn, Linda Bradford, Nancy Priest

Linda invited us to her mountain home in Gilpin County for a potluck.

 

Nancy and Lori Williamson

 

Jackie McFarland with CV

 

The Boys — Woofie and JAK — had shampoos and trims.

Aren’t they handsome!

 

Woofie loves to pose.

JAK doesn’t.

 

 

Rotary Changing of the Guard Party

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Lucky Penny Ranch

Evergreen, Colorado

Gail Sharp was our hostess for our big shindig.

 

Amelia holding one of Gail’s baby goats.

 

We ate and had awards inside the indoor arena.

 

Incoming President Larry Caine with our outgoing President Linda Lovin.

 

 

 

 

 

To live content with small means, 
to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion,
to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich,
to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly,
to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully,
do all bravely,
await occasions,
hurry never--
in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, unconscious,
grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.
~ William Ellery Channing

 

 

 

 

 

June 25, 2017     Third Sunday after Pentecost; 

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

 

 

Jesus said to the twelve disciples, “A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!

“So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. And even the hairs of your head are all counted. So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.

“Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven. 

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 

For I have come to set a man against his father, 
and a daughter against her mother, 
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; 
and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.” 

Matthew 10:24-39

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

 

Pentecost 3A

 

 

 

Genesis 21:8-21 with Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17 or
Jeremiah 20:7-13 with Psalm 69:7-10, (11-15), 16-18
Romans 6:1b-11
Matthew 10:24-39