Rejoice!

The Lost Sheep and The Lost Coin

Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them."

So he told them this parable: "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.' Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

"Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.' Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

 

Lost Drachma

TISSOT, James Jacques Joseph

between 1886 and 1894

Brooklyn Museum

New York

NY

United States

 

"...when his (Tissot) carefully researched collection of 350 watercolors depicting the life of Jesus was first published as a book in 1896, it found a large and enthusiastic audience. No one who had followed his previous career could have anticipated that this painter of urban life in Paris and London would undertake the project of painting virtually every event in the Gospels.

The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ project took nearly ten years to complete. When it was done, it chronicled the entire life of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament in a series of 350 watercolors. To research the project Tissot traveled to Egypt, Syria, and Palestine in 1886–87, and again in 1890.

While in the Holy Land he closely observed the landscape, the vegetation, the architecture, and the manner of dress, and filled sketchbooks with what he saw. He talked with rabbis and studied Talmudic literature as well as theological and historical volumes. He believed that there was still a remaining “aura” in the places where the Gospel events took place, and he spoke of having mystical experiences that added to his careful research. What he wanted to create was something as close as possible to an eyewitness account of the life of Jesus." [from Terry Glaspey's "75 Masterpieces Every Christian Should Know"]

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=2019091425464634&code=ACT&RC=54791&Row=2

 

 

 

 

 

When you do things from your soul,

you feel a river moving in you,

a joy.

~ Rumi

 

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth

with your feet.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

 

 

 

 

Randy Hale is teaching a class here in Evergreen on Wednesdays.

 

 

 

Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition 

Center for the Arts Evergreen

A special preview

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Our Painted Toes were well represented in this National Show!

Evergreen is SO fortunate to provide the venue.

Sauté Pans

by Carolyn Martyn

Member of our Painted Toe Art Society

 

Coming Home from Bailey II

by

Patricia Rucker

Member of our Painted Toe Art Society

 

 

If the Shoe Fits

by

Lynn Nebergall

Member of The Painted Toe Art Society

 

 

Spares and Pairs

Friday, September 13, 2019

Susie and John VanderHorst hosted our moon-viewing potluck dinner.

 

 

Dine Around at Hanna's

Todd Bastian with our hostess, Hanna Holt.

Hanna fixed chicken cutlets and spätzle!

 

 

Hanna Holt, Susan Toussaint, Lynn

 

 

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein  

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

 

 

Psalm 51:10

 

 

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 with Psalm 14 or
Exodus 32:7-14 with Psalm 51:1-10 and
1 Timothy 1:12-17 and
Luke 15:1-10

 

 

 

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A hot wind comes from me out of the bare heights in the desert toward my poor people, not to winnow or cleanse—wind too strong for that. Now it is I who speak in judgment against them.

"For my people are foolish,
    they do not know me;
they are stupid children,
    they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil,
    but do not know how to do good."

I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void;
    and to the heavens, and they had no light.
I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking,
    and all the hills moved to and fro.
I looked, and lo, there was no one at all,
    and all the birds of the air had fled.
I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert,
    and all its cities were laid in ruins
       before the Lord, before his fierce anger.

For thus says the Lord:

The whole land shall be a desolation;
    yet I will not make a full end.
Because of this the earth shall mourn,
    and the heavens above grow black;
for I have spoken, I have purposed;
    I have not relented nor will I turn back.

with

Psalm 14

Fools say in their hearts, 
   "There is no God."
They are corrupt, 
   they do abominable deeds;
there is no one 
   who does good.

God looks down from heaven 
   on humankind
to see if there are any 
   who are wise,
who seek after God.

They have all gone astray, 
   they are all alike perverse;
there is no one who does good, 
   no, not one.

Have they no knowledge, 
   all the evildoers
who eat up my people 
   as they eat bread,
and do not call upon God?

There they shall be 
   in great terror,
for God is with the company 
   of the righteous.
You would confound the plans 
   of the poor,
but God is their refuge.

O that deliverance for Israel 
   would come from Zion!
When God restores the fortunes 
   of God's people,
Jacob will rejoice; 
   Israel will be glad.

or

Exodus 32:7-14

The Lord said to Moses, "Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshipped it and sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'" The Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation."

But Moses implored the Lord his God, and said, "O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, 'It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, 'I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.'" And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.

with

Psalm 51:1-10

Have mercy on me, O God,
   according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
   blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly 
   from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions,
   and my sin is ever before me.

Against you, you alone, 
   have I sinned,
and done what is evil 
   in your sight,
so that you are justified 
   in your sentence
and blameless 
   when you pass judgment.

Indeed, I was born guilty,
   a sinner when my mother conceived me.

You desire truth 
   in the inward being;
therefore teach me wisdom 
   in my secret heart.

Purge me with hyssop, 
   and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be purer 
   than snow.

Let me hear joy 
   and gladness;
let the bones that you have crushed 
   rejoice.

Hide your face 
   from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, 
   O God,
and put a new and right spirit 
   within me.

1 Timothy 1:12-17

I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost. But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making me an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Luke 15:1-10

Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them."

So he told them this parable: "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.' Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

"Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.' Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."