Persistence

Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)

GAUGUIN, Paul

1888

Scottish National Gallery (On Display)

Edinburgh

Scotland

 

 

 

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy

is that one comes from a strong will,

and the other from a strong won’t.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

 

 

 

A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted

for putting one foot in front of the other.

~ M.C. Richards

 

 

 

 

Bunco

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

at the Snyder's

Jennie Snyder was our hostess with amazing food!

 

RED LETTER DAY!!!

Charles Rose received a check from me from Vicki’s Estate

at Douglas Turner’s Law Offices!

This was an interim accounting which will be finalized in another year.

Charles Rose (Vicki’s nephew), Sarah Pizzo, Esq., Carolyn Alexander

 

 

Book Club

Thursday, October 17, 2019

at the Leonard’s home

Joan Evashevski with our hostess, Sharron Leonard.

Such a delicious pumpkin ice cream cake!

 

Kelly, Donna, Nancy, Sharron, Joan, Marianne

 

Karen Z. Brass, our speaker at Rotary, with President Doug Turner.

She is a second generation Holocaust educator and speaker.

 Karen believes no one should ever stand silent in the face of hatred.

She asks if we as individuals stand up in the face of hate, or do we look away?

 

The Pyramid of Hate   

©2018 Anti-Defamation League 

The Pyramid of Hate demonstrates that the hate of genocide is built upon 

the acceptance of behaviors described in the lower levels of the pyramid.

https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/pyramid-of-hate.pdf

 

 

Angelica Morales, Al Steger

Angelica, from Guatemala, is a graduate of Starfish One-by-One, started by ourTed and Connie Ning,

and is also attending university in Guatemala City studying microbiology on a scholarship from the

Quetzal University Fund.  The Q Fund operates under the fiscal sponsorship of the

Evergreen Rotary Foundation.

This past week, Angelica was in New York with 1000 other girls from around the world

to celebrate the annual Day of the Girl. Six girls were selected to present the Girls Bill of Rights

at the United Nation.  Angelica was one of the six.

 

 

Saturday, October 19, 2019

8:30 AM to 3:30 PM

Mount Vernon Canyon Club

https://www.rockymountainliteraryfestival.org

 

Colleen Skates and other organizers of the event.

 

Greg Dobbs, on the right, was once again our emcee.

Carol Dobbs is on the left, Diana is in the middle.

 

Roger Fertig, in the center, is a yearly sponsor.

The Festival raises money for Bootstraps, who help area students

with scholarships and/or loans for further study.

http://www.bootstrapsinc.org

 

Kappy Kling, of Hearthfire Books, makes change for Gretchen MacArthur’s purchase.

 

Nick Arvin, author of Mad Boy, signs a copy for Sharon Wink.

 

Barbara Nickless autographs a copy of her Ambush.

 

Linda Lovin, Carolyn Alexander

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against my opponent.' For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.'" And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"

Luke 18:1-8

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 31:27-34 with Psalm 119:97-104 or
Genesis 32:22-31 with Psalm 121 and
2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 and
Luke 18:1-8

 

 

Jeremiah 31:27-34

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord. In those days they shall no longer say:
"The parents have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge."
But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

Psalm 119:97-104

Oh God, 
   how I love your law!
It is my meditation 
   all day long.

Your commandment makes me wiser
   than my enemies,
for it is always with me.

I have more understanding
   than all my teachers,
for your decrees 
   are my meditation.

I understand more 
   than the aged,
for I keep your precepts.

I hold back my feet
   from every evil way,
in order to keep your word.

I do not turn away
   from your ordinances,
for you have taught me.

How sweet are your words
   to my taste,
sweeter than honey 
   to my mouth!

Through your precepts
   I get understanding;
therefore I hate every way
   that is false.

or

Genesis 32:22-31

The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, "Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me." So he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." Then the man said, "You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed." Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip.

with

Psalm 121

I lift up my eyes 
   to the hills—
from where will my help come?

My help comes 
   from God,
who made heaven 
   and earth.

God will not let your foot 
   be moved;
God who keeps you 
   will not slumber.

God who keeps Israel
   will neither slumber 
nor sleep.

God is your keeper;
God is your shade 
   at your side.

The sun shall not strike you 
   by day,
nor the moon 
   by night.

God will keep you 
   from all evil;
God will keep your life.

God will keep your going out
   and your coming in 
from this time on 
   and forevermore.

2 Timothy 3:14-4:5

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you: proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths. As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.

Luke 18:1-8

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against my opponent.' For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.'" And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"