Listen!

 

Christ with Mary and Martha

VERMEER, Johannes

1654

National Gallery of Scotland

Edinburgh

Great Britain

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20190720601310676&code=act&RC=49607&Row=23

 

 

There’s a lot of difference

between listening and hearing.

~ G.K. Chesterton

 

 

 

The most important thing in communication

is to hear what isn’t being said.

~ Peter F. Drucker

 

 

 

 

Sunday, July 14, 2019

A Summer Soirée!

 

 

Laurie and Greg Romberg were our hosts

for a delightful evening!

 

 

Painted Toe Art Society

The members have enjoyed the two months we spend each summer

painting in the courtyard at the Unitarian Church!

 

 

Painted Toe July Birthdays!

Suzie Williamson, Pat Rucker, and Charlie Horn

celebrate their birthdays this month,

 

 

Afternoon Book Club

at my home

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Van Farnsworth, Sharron Leonard

 

 

Marianne Loritz, Lynn Gilbert

 

 

AFTER the party.

I forgot to take a “before” picture.

 

 

 

 

Rotary

Friday morning

Nathan Teegarden, Cindy Sahli, and several others were equipped with goodies

to lead their upcoming RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) weeklong camps.

 

 

 

 

Our Speaker

Our own Mendhi Audlin presented

“What if it All Goes Right?"

 

 

 

 

She video taped our greeting to the 2019 RYLA campers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the name of God, stop a moment,

cease your work, look around you.

~ Leo Tolstoy

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

 

 

 

Amos 8:1-12 with Psalm 52 or
Genesis 18:1-10a with Psalm 15
Colossians 1:15-28
Luke 10:38-42

 

 

Amos 8:1-12

This is what the Lord GOD showed me - a basket of summer fruit.

He said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass them by. The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," says the Lord GOD; "the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!"

Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land, saying, "When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain; and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practice deceit with false balances, buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and selling the sweepings of the wheat."

The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who lives in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?

On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

The time is surely coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.

with

Psalm 52

Why do you boast, 
   O mighty one,
of mischief done 
   against the godly?
All day long
   you are plotting destruction.
Your tongue is like a sharp razor,
   you worker of treachery.

You love evil 
   more than good,
and lying more 
   than speaking the truth.

You love all words 
   that devour,
O deceitful tongue.

But God will break you down 
   forever;
and will snatch and tear you 
   from your tent;
God will uproot you
   from the land of the living.

The righteous will see, 
   and fear,
and will laugh at the evildoer, 
   saying,
"See the one 
   who would not take refuge in God,
but trusted in abundant riches,
   and sought refuge in wealth!"

But I am like a green olive tree
   in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
   forever and ever.

I will thank you forever,
   because of what you have done.
In the presence of the faithful
   will proclaim your name,
for it is good.

or

Genesis 18:1-10a

The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them, and bowed down to the ground.

He said, "My lord, if I find favor with you, do not pass by your servant. Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. Let me bring a little bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on - since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said."

And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Make ready quickly three measures of choice flour, knead it, and make cakes." Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it. Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.

They said to him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" And he said, "There, in the tent." Then one said, "I will surely return to you in due season, and your wife Sarah shall have a son."

with

Psalm 15

O God, who may abide 
   in your tent?
Who may dwell 
   on your holy hill?

Those who walk blamelessly,
   and do what is right,
and speak the truth
   from their heart;

who do not slander
   with their tongue,
and do no evil 
   to their friends,
nor take up a reproach 
   against their neighbors;

in whose eyes the wicked 
   are despised,
but who honor those 
   who fear God;
who stand by their oath 
   even to their hurt;

who do not lend money 
   at interest,
and do not take a bribe 
   against the innocent.
Those who do these things 
   shall never be moved.

Colossians 1:15-28

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers - all things have been created through him and for him.

He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.

And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him - provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a servant of this gospel.

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. I became its servant according to God's commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Luke 10:38-42

Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me." But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her."