Struggles
The same night Jacob 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.
Genesis 32:22-31
Vision
After the Sermon, or
Jacob
Wrestling with the Angel
GAUGUIN,
Paul
1888
National
Gallery of Scotland
Edinburgh
Scotland
http://www.imerodromos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1280px-Paul_Gauguin_137-1040x750.jpg
Gauguin started
off landscape painting in the summer en plein air but following the creation of Vision After
the Sermon he focused increasingly on interpreting religious subject matter in
a highly personal way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_After_the_Sermon
Interesting discussion of the painting in the following
video!
If there is no struggle,
there is no progress.
~
Frederick Douglass
Once all struggle is grasped,
miracles are possible.
~
Mao Zedong
“Joy,”
by Barbara Edwards Sternberg
from
her Memorial Service.
At
Painted Toe on Monday, Joyce Shelton shared some of the items that
the
Vida Design Company have produced using some of her art images.
http://shopvida.com/collections/joyce-shelton
Rocky Mountain Literary Festival
Saturday,
October 15, 2016
Mt.
Vernon Country Club
9:00
- 3:00
Coleen
Skates from Bootstraps Scholarships with Tim Johnson, author of Descent.
Tim
was one of our five speakers.
A
wonderful event!
An Evening in Paradise: A Tropical Escape
Center
for the Arts Evergreen Annual Evening for the Arts
Saturday,
October 15, 2015
El
Rancho, Colorado
6:00
- 11:00
Carolyn
Campbell was honored as our Arts Person of the Year.
Steve
Sumner, Executive Director of Center for the Arts,
with
one of the dancers from the Polynesian Fiafia group from Samoa.
Betsy
Buckner with Frances the Flamingo.
Nancy and Walt Pawluczkowycz
of Evergreen Goldsmiths.
Calvin: ”There’s no problem so awful
that
you can’t add some guilt to it and make it
even worse.”
~
Bill Watterson
October 16, 2016 Twenty-ninth Sunday
in Ordinary Time/Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 24
Previous OPQs may
be found at:
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.
2 Timothy 3:14-4:5
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
http://www.warrencampdesign.com/heartyBoys/luke/part3/week59.html
[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
…