Listen!
Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the
LORD under Eli. The word of the LORD was rare in those days; visions were not
widespread. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he
could not see, was lying down in his room; the lamp of God had not yet gone
out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God
was. Then the LORD called, "Samuel! Samuel!" and he said, "Here
I am!" and ran to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me."
But he said, "I did not call; lie down again." So he went and lay
down.
The LORD called again, "Samuel!"
Samuel got up and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called
me." But he said, "I did not call, my son; lie down again." Now
Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been
revealed to him. The LORD called Samuel again, a third time. And he got up and
went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." Then Eli perceived
that the LORD was calling the boy. Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie
down; and if he calls you, you shall say, 'Speak, LORD, for your servant is
listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
Now the LORD came and stood there, calling
as before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, for your
servant is listening." Then the LORD said to Samuel, "See, I am about
to do something in Israel that will make both ears of anyone who hears of it
tingle. On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken
concerning his house, from beginning to end. For I have told him that I am
about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his
sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them. Therefore I swear to
the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated by
sacrifice or offering forever."
Samuel lay there until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli. But Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son." He said, "Here I am." Eli said, "What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also, if you hide anything from me of all that he told you." So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. Then he said, "It is the LORD; let him do what seems good to him." As Samuel grew up, the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was a trustworthy prophet of the LORD.
1 Samuel 3:1-10, (11-20)
Samuel
Reading to Eli the Judgments of God Upon Eli’s House
COPLEY,
John Singleton
1780
Wadsworth
Atheneum
Hartford,
Connecticut
United
States of America
https://www.allartclassic.com/pictures_zoom.php?p_number=186&p=&number=COS013
I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and
learn from it.
It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
It talks to me sometimes.
I feel myself alive in it.
It talks.
And I can hear it.
~
Chaim Potok
Inner guidance is heard like
soft music in the night
by those who have learned to
listen.
~ Vernon Howard
Evergreen Rotary’s Annual
Ethics in Business Award
Pandora
and John Erlandson, last year’s recipients,
made
the presentation.
This year’s recipients …
Dr.
Jeff and Mrs. Bev Sprout
Owners/partners
of Evergreen Dental Group
Sculpture Evergreen’s Annual Reception for Artists
Center for the Arts Evergreen
Friday, June 1, 2018
The
fifteen sculptures from last year were removed on Friday, June 1st, and on
Saturday,
June
2nd, the new sculptures were installed.
The
Barbara Sternberg Award for Exellence was awarded for
Ancient
Protocol
by
Paul Russell
Anna
Marie Nelson (golfing buddy) presented the award for the Peoples’ Choice.
The
Peoples’ Choice Award went to
Kit
Fox
by
Pokey Park
Gail
Riley, Carolyn Alexander
Installation of this year’s sculptures
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Oliver
by
Jeff Best
(Jeff
drove here from Michigan with Oliver riding on the trailer behind.)
A
River Runs Through It
by
Lyle Clift
Mark
Johnston welds Sandstorm, by Justin Deister, in place.
Sue
Quinlan, the artist, watches while her piece is bolted in place.
Into
the Mix
by
Sue Quinlan
Another
view of Into the Mix with the artist in the background.
Why
Oh Why
by
Jade Windell
Red
Rover
by
Pati Stajcar
A
wonderful site for Red Rover!
In
the Balance of Time
by
Victoria Patti
(The
pendulum, once started, swings for 45 minutes.)
More
welding!
Peace
by
Scott Froschauer
All
the new sculptures were mounted by noon.
Then
many artists joined us for lunch at Keys on the Green.
Evergreen
now has 34 permanent sculptures
and
fifteen temporary sculptures.
The word “listen” contains the same letters
as the word “silent.”
~
Alfred Brendel
June 3, 2018 Second Sunday
after Pentecost Year B
Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Proper 4
One
sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his
disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, "Look,
why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?" And he said to
them, "Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were
hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high
priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but
the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions." Then he said to
them, "The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the
sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath."
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come forward." Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent. He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
Mark 2:23-3:6
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
1
Samuel 3:1–10, (11–20)
Psalm
139:1–6, 13–18
2
Corinthians 4:5–12
Mark
2:23—3:6
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