Peace Be With You

 

Jesus himself stood among the disciples and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence. 

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. 

 

Luke 24:36b-48

Everlasting Peace and Love

MAHALLATI, Goli

Original Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

 

http://www.miradafineart.com/681568/goli-mahallati-gallery/

 

http://reddotmiami.com/colio/abra-gallery-goli-mahallati/goli-mahallati-everlasting-peace-and-love-24x48/

 

Goli Mahallati’s original acrylics and limited edition prints depict stirring images that speak to a deep humanity. Her work goes beyond any standard, provincial artistic genre and strikes at the elemental state of the human condition, where her figures are sometimes bound together in support and love, and at other times isolated.

 

The strength of the artist’s statement is enforced by her choice to work with a pallet knife rather than a brush, creating bold areas of color and texture. Goli’s work reflects a sense of admiration for the beauty and dignity of the ideal human spirit and form, which is, in her case, best captured in the abstract.

 

Goli’s warm and luminescent color palette in contrast with mysterious forms leads a to unified sense of energy that is often lacking in other post-modern work. Her paintings are less about cognition and more about an intrinsic energy radiating from her works.

 

https://www.abragallery.com/goli-biography

 

 

 

 

 

 

What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit,

not the absence of faith at all,

but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living,

God dormant in the world to which

we are not quite giving our best selves.

~ Christian Wiman

 

 

 

 

In a gentle way,

you can shake the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rev. Kimra Perkins, Carolyn Alexander

Kimra joined me at church last Sunday to celebrate the 

First Anniversary of Vicki’s Graduation to Heaven.

 

 

 

Belated Easter Dinner

with Sondra Kellogg and the Pennell Family

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Jennifer, Amelia, and Marcus Pennell, Sondra Kellogg

 

Amelia with their traditional lamb cake.

She named him John.

 

 

 

 

 

A Farewell Tribute …

… to former Rotarians

MARION PATTERSON

and 

TONI STEPHENS

 

 

Spares and Pairs

Friday, April 13, 2018

Thank you, Jennie and Neil Snyder!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silence is one of the deepest disciplines of the spirit 

simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification.

One of the fruits of silence is the freedom to let God be our justifier.

We don’t need to straighten others out.

~ Richard J. Foster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 15, 2018       Third Sunday of Easter Year B

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

 

 

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Acts 3: 12-19
Psalm 4
1 John 3:1-7
Luke 24: 36b-48