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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:
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
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?