Forgiveness
Realizing that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers said, “What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong that we did to him?” So they approached Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this instruction before he died, ‘Say to Joseph: I beg you, forgive the crime of your brothers and the wrong they did in harming you.’ Now therefore please forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. Then his brothers also wept, fell down before him, and said, “We are here as your slaves.” But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God? Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today. So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones.” In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.
Genesis 50:15-21
The Recognition of Joseph by His Brothers
CORNELIUS,
Peter von
1816-1817
Fresco
Deutsche
Akademie Villa Massimo
Rome
Italy
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph. Is my father
still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, so dismayed were they
at his presence. Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come closer to
me." And they came closer. He said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom
you sold into Egypt...I will provide for you there--since there are five more
years of famine to come--so that you and your household, and all that you have,
will not come to poverty.' And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them;
and after that his brothers talked with him.
The painter, Peter von Cornelius, was a part of the so-called
"Nazarene" movement, "a movement within Romantic Art that shaped
public monumental and religious painting in Germany for a half-century after 1810.
Its key proponents included Peter Cornelius, Ferdinand Olivier, Johann
Friedrich Overbeck, Franz Pforr, Wilhelm Schadow, Julius Schnorr von
Carolsfeld, and Philipp Veit. The Nazarenes stressed the primacy of the
"idea" in art, considered religious and national historical subjects
as preferable to the classical subject championed by the rationalist academies,
felt truth to be linked to the "characteristic" in nature and art,
and leaned toward medieval and early Renaissance models of art in the wake of
the Napoleonic debacle...Piety marked all the artists, although only a few
devoted themselves exclusively, or even preponderantly, to religious
subjects...The artists invested their monumental figurative compositions with a
spiritually energized atemporality, which eventually lost its appeal to a
public attracted by the quotidian leanings of the Biedermeier and realist
eras." (Murray, 795)
By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil
and to the grace which others are just
as entitled to as we are.
~
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When you hold resentment toward another,
you are bound to that person or condition
by an emotional link that is stronger than steel.
Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve
that link and get free.
~
Catherine Ponder
Donor Appreciation Opening
Center for the Arts Evergreen
31880 Rocky Village Rd. (off County Rd. 65)
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The
Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Show
was
the first exhibit in Center for the Arts Evergreen’s new location!
Donor
Appreciation Evening
Jackie
and I stopped at Heinie’s Market after our Chew and Chat lunch on Thursday.
Jeanne
Gibbard and I saw “Chorus Line” at the Arvada Center Thursday evening.
Wonderful!!!
Greg
Dobbs was our speaker at Rotary on Friday morning.
After
over 40 years of bringing the arts and the community together
and
over four years of raising money for a Capital Campaign,
Center
for the Arts Evergreen (CAE) officially unveiled
its
new home on Saturday, September 16, 2017.
At last!!!
Carolyn
Hock and I were photo-bombed by Tom Jones.
Congratulations, REINA and YUSHI!
September
16, 2017
Yushi
Sakakibara and Reina Sakamoto
Their
civil ceremony was today in Japan;
their
actual wedding ceremony will be on February 10, 2018.
Reina
and Yushi have known each other since they played soccer together in the 7th
grade!
Without forgiveness life is governed by …
an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
~
Roberto Assagioli
September 17, 2017
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 19
Peter came and said to Jesus, “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.
“For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. When he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him; and, as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, and payment to be made. So the slave fell on his knees before him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the lord of that slave released him and forgave him the debt. But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat, he said, ‘Pay what you owe.’ Then his fellow slave fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ But he refused; then he went and threw him into prison until he would pay the debt. When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?’ And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt. So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”
Matthew 18:21-35
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Exodus 14:19-31 with
Psalm 114
or Exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21
Genesis 50:15-21 with Psalm 103:(1-7), 8-13
Romans 14:1-12
Matthew 18:21-35