Miraculous Water
From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. The people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” The Lord said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Exodus 17:1-7*
Moses
Striking the Rock and Bringing Forth the Water
BACCHIACCA
(Francesco
d’Ubertino Verdi)
1540
- 1545
National
Gallery of Scotland
Edinburgh
Great
Britain
Only one signed
work by Francesco is known, the decoration of a Terrace for the duchess and her
children, with his abbreviated Christian name and nickname: "FRANC. BACHI.
FACI."[7] His works
typically contain carefully observed illustrations of nature. The artist's
trademark method and style consists of the combination of figures, exotic
costumes and other motifs acquired from Italian artists and German and
Netherlandish prints into entirely new compositions. These cosmopolitan
assemblages exhibited the most praiseworthy elements of both Flemish and
Italian Renaissance art, which appealed to his courtly clientele.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bacchiacca
Bacchiacca used this Old
Testament subject as a means to include a wide range of exotically clothed
figures and various birds and animals in a stylised, rocky landscape. Moses
kneels in the centre, before the rock from which water miraculously appears to
relieve the thirst of the Israelites as they journey to the Promised Land. This
is collected in, and enthusiastically drunk from, beautifully crafted jugs. The
picture may well be connected with a commission Bacchiacca received from a
Florentine guild of jug-makers to decorate a festival stand in 1525 with scenes
from the Old Testament.
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/4667/moses-striking-rock-after-1525
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding.
But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot
yield.
As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding
will overcome whatever is rigid and hard.
This is another paradox:
what is soft is strong.
~
Lao-Tzu
There is always more goodness in the world than there
appears to be,
because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
~
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
SWEDISH CRAYFISH PARTY!
Sunday, September 24, 2017
at Merit and Donald’s home
aaa
Karen
Hume and Merit Hellman-Funk
(two
golfing buddies … sometimes)
This
is a Swedish yearly tradition of Merit’s.
Bill
Blaustein wasn’t shy about starting!
John
Erlandson and Merit sang some of the Crayfish Songs.
Hmmmm.
Some of them had very familiar tunes!
Woofie,
JAK, and I had an all-day session at the CSU Veterinary Hospital
on
Tuesday in Fort Collins. We go back in two weeks.
Woofie’s
toes are a mess but it is the left wrist that is
the
real problem. Apparently the right wrist is headed
the
same way.
Center for the Arts Evergreen
Donor Appreciation Party
September
28, 2017
6:00
to 9:00
Martin Museum Residences
1200
Acoma Street, #601
Denver,
Colorado
Sharon
Martin was our generous hostess.
Her
husband, Lanny, was in Chicago.
They
recently donated 25M as seed money
for
the revitalization of the Denver Art Museum’s North Building
(which
will be renamed after them).
Chef
Kevin Taylor, on the right, with his partner, Austin.
They
catered the tasty goodies for our event.
Carolyn
Alexander on the Martin’s balcony.
The
Denver Art Museum is on the left in the background
and
the Denver Library is on the right.
I
was not allowed to take pictures inside
because
of the art work.
Bill
and Dr. Marsha Manning
Our Rotary Club honored the life of a wonderful man!
Wayne Lundhagen
March
19, 1937 - September 22, 2017
When the well’s dry,
we know the worth of water.
~
Benjamin Franklin
October 1, 2017
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 21
*See also Numbers
20:1-29 where Moses is commanded to speak
to the rock.
When Jesus entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?” Jesus said to them, “I will also ask you one question; if you tell me the answer, then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things. Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin?” And they argued with one another, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ we are afraid of the crowd; for all regard John as a prophet.” So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
“What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ He answered, ‘I will not’; but later he changed his mind and went. The father went to the second and said the same; and he answered, ‘I go, sir’; but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and even after you saw it, you did not change your minds and believe him.
Matthew 21:23-32
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Exodus 17:1-7 with
Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16 or
Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 with Psalm 25:1-9
Philippians 2:1-13
Matthew 21:23-32