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1Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. 3Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.” 4When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5Then he said, “Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”6He said further, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

7Then the LORD said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, 8and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them. 10So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.” 11But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” 12He said, “I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you that it is I who sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God on this mountain.”

13But Moses said to God, “If I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” 15God also said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’: 
     This is my name forever, 
     and this my title for all generations.”

 

Exodus 3:1-15

Burning Bush

DANZIGER, Itzhak

1959

Haifa Museum of Art

Haifa, Israel

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Burning_Bush_(1959)_by_Ithak_Danziger.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

Vocation does not come from a voice “out there” 

calling me to be something I am not.

It comes from a voice “in here” calling me 

to be the person I was born to be,

to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.

~ Thomas Merton

 

 

 

 

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it,

I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

~ Parker J. Palmer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ice Cream Social at church last Sunday

 

 

Ellen with her sister, Beth Erlund, at Wednesday Breakfast last week.

Ellen was here to help Beth with the Evergreen Fine Arts Festival last weekend.

 

 

Sondra Kellogg and Kay Owen at our monthly (sort of) Chew & Chat get-together.

The picture with Vicki, Jackie, and me didn’t turn out.

 

 

Mike Giller, Ben Allen, and Kelley Karl with Jenner Diaz,

our Rotary Exchange Student from Peru.

 

 

Alliance Artists of Evergreen

Humphrey History Park & Museum

Opening Reception

Friday, August 29, 2014

The Three “Gales”

Gale Gatto, Gayle MacDougall, and Gail Posner

are three of the 11 members of Alliance Artists of Evergreen.

 

 

Gale Gatto usually displays her photography.

Here, she is branching out and adding embroidery touches to her

photos that have been printed on canvas.

 

 

Perhaps you can see the metallic embroidery Gale has added to the canvas.

 

 

Lynne Milliken, another member of the Alliance group, with

Angela Rayne, Executive Director of the Humphrey History Park & Museum.

 

Lynne Milliken, Roger Ambrosier, Angela Rayne

 

 

The elk have been bugling every night but today it was the deer

who were munching on what is left of my flowers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m here to be me,

which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.

~ Anne Lamott

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 31, 2014     Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost — 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 17

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

 

 

21From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.22And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you.” 23But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”

24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. 26For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

27“For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done. 28Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” Matthew 16:21-28

Matthew 16:21-28

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

comic

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Labor Day

 

Song of the Builders

 

On a summer morning
I sat down
on a hillside
to think about God -

 

a worthy pastime.
Near me, I saw
a single cricket;
it was moving the grains of the hillside

 

this way and that way.
How great was its energy,
how humble its effort.
Let us hope

 

it will always be like this,
each of us going on
in our inexplicable ways
building the universe.

 

~ Mary Oliver ~

 

(Why I Wake Early)

 

 

 

Exodus 3:1-15
Psalm 105: 1-6, 23-26, 45c
Romans 12:9-21
Matthew 16:21-28

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moses said:

1.    Who am I to go to Pharaoh?

2.    But what if they don’t believe me?

3.    You know I’m not a good speaker.

4.    Can’t you send someone else?

5.    Who am I to resist the tide of injustice?

6.    Who am I to insist that the people under the bridge

deserve at least one hot meal a day?

7.    Who am I to stand up for the rights of those who farm on

small farms? 

God said:

What’s in your hand? 

A staff:  care, comfort, guidance, defense, support, and authority.

 What do you have to offer? What strengths do you have? What gifts do you bring? Do you recognize your gifts’ ability and capability?