Ecclesiastes
3:1-2
Nathan admonishes David
When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation
for him. When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house,
and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done
displeased the Lord, and the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and
said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the
other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds; but the poor man had
nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. He brought it up, and it
grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his meager fare, and
drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.
Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was loath to take one of his
own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took
the poor man's lamb, and prepared that for the guest who had come to him."
Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man. He said to Nathan,
"As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die; he shall
restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no
pity." Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the Lord,
the God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from the
hand of Saul; I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your
bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too
little, I would have added as much more. Why have you despised the word of the Lord,
to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with
the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with
the sword of the Ammonites. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from
your house, for you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the
Hittite to be your wife. Thus says the Lord: I will raise up trouble against
you from within your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes,
and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight
of this very sun. For you did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all
Israel, and before the sun." David said to Nathan, "I have sinned
against the Lord."
2
Samuel 11:26-12:13a
Nathan Admonishes King David
GELDER, Aert
de
1683
Fuji Art
Museum
Tokyo, Japan
http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_218202/Aert-De-Gelder/Nathan-admonishes-King-David
Because I
could not stop for Death
He kindly
stopped for me
The Carriage
held but just Ourselves
And
Immortality.
~ Emily Dickinson *
The day
which we fear as our last
is but the
birthday of eternity.
~ Seneca
Remembering
our brother
Keith Wilson
Alexander
October 11, 1930 - August
1, 2012
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the
living.
~ Marcus
Tullius Cicero
August 5, 2012 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost; 18th
Sunday in Ordinary Time
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So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they
themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. When
they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi,
when did you come here?" Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell
you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate
your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the
food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it
is on him that God the Father has set his seal."
Then they said to him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?"
Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him
whom he has sent." So they said to him, "What sign are you going to
give us then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you
performing? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written,
'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" Then Jesus said to them,
"Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from
heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the
bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
They said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always." Jesus said to
them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry,
and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John
6:24-35
Agnus
Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the
permission of www.agnusday.org
Purge me
with hyssop,
and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be purer than snow.
Psalm 51:7
Asperges me hyssopo et mundabor
DALI,
Salvador
1964-67
gouache
http://www.dalionline.com/biblia3-3.html
2 Sam. 11:2612:13a
Ps. 51:112
Eph. 4:116
John 6:2435