Wisdom
(Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes,
the leaders of the ancestral houses of the Israelites, before King Solomon in
Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of
David, which is Zion.
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in
the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings
of the cherubim.
And when the priests came out of the holy place, a cloud filled the house of
the Lord, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud;
for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.)
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the
assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands to heaven. He said, "O Lord,
God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth beneath,
keeping covenant and steadfast love for your servants who walk before you with
all their heart, the covenant that you kept for your servant my father David as
you declared to him; you promised with your mouth and have this day fulfilled
with your hand. Therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant my
father David that which you promised him, saying, 'There shall never fail you a
successor before me to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children look
to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.' Therefore, O God
of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you promised to your servant my
father David. But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the
highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!
Regard your servant's prayer and his plea, O Lord my God, heeding the cry and
the prayer that your servant prays to you today; that your eyes may be open
night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, 'My name shall be
there,' that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.
Hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward
this place; O hear in heaven your dwelling place; heed and forgive. Likewise
when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a distant land
because of your name — for they shall hear of your great name, your mighty
hand, and your outstretched arm — when a foreigner comes and prays toward this
house, then hear in heaven your dwelling place, and do according to all that
the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your
name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and so that they may know that
your name has been invoked on this house that I have built."
1
Kings 8:(1, 6, 10-11), 22-30, 41-43
Solomon’s Temple
SHARIR,
David
1988
Lithograph
Edition 400
http://www.safrai.com/details.php?id=244
The heart is
like a garden.
It can grow
compassion or fear, resentment or love.
What seeds will
you plant there?
~ Jack Kornfield
Turn your
wounds into wisdom.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Our evening
book club met at Lurlie’s architecturally amazing home.
Lurlie,
Betty, Barbara
Jeanne C.,
Carolyn
Mimi and
Hanna made Colorado Peach Pies for our entire Rotary group!
Mimi, Ted
Ning, Hanna
Beth Erlund
at the Evergreen Fine Arts Festival today with her wonderful batik paintings.
http://erlundjohnsonstudios.com/Beth.html
Sue and Val
(center) enjoyed the Festival.
This is my
trusty little car; I was a shuttle driver for the vendors at the end of the
show.
If wisdom
and diamonds grew on the same tree
we could
soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
~ Lemuel K.
Washburn
August
26, 2012 Thirteenth Sunday after
Pentecost; 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Previous OPQs may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as
the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me
will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like
that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread
will live forever." He said these things while he was teaching in the
synagogue at Capernaum.
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This teaching is
difficult; who can accept it?" But Jesus, being aware that his disciples
were complaining about it, said to them, "Does this offend you? Then what
if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the
spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to
you are spirit and life. But among you there are some who do not believe."
For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who
was the one that would betray him. And he said, "For this reason I have
told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father."
Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with
him. So Jesus asked the twelve, "Do you also wish to go away?" Simon
Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of
eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of
God."
John
6:56-69
Agnus
Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the
permission of www.agnusday.org
1 Kings 8:(1, 6, 10–11)
22–30, 41–43
Ps. 84
Eph. 6:10–20
John 6:56–69