THANKSGIVING

Christ the King Sunday

Thanksgiving Pie

PRINCE, William Meade

The Country Gentleman, November, 1930

We don’t know a great deal about this artist, but he did forty-eight charming covers for our sister publication, Country Gentleman, and we know enough to enjoy them!

Here’s a timely cover. It’s Thanksgiving and everybody wants some of that delicious-smelling pie! Meade had a way with colors. After years of advertising work in Chicago, Prince moved to Westport, Connecticut, where he could work on magazine illustration and ride and maintain fine Arabian horses.

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/11/13/art-entertainment/delightful-art-william-meade-prince.html

A THANKSGIVING PRAYER *

Oh, Lord, I thank you for the privilege and gift of living in a world filled with beauty and excitement and variety. 

I thank you for the gift of loving and being loved, for the friendliness and understanding and beauty of the animals on the farm and in the forest and marshes, for the green of the trees, the sound of the waterfall, the darting beauty of the trout in the brook. 

I thank you for the delights of music and children, of other people's thoughts and conversation and their books to read by the fireside or in bed with the rain falling on the roof or the snow blowing past outside the window.

I thank you for the beauties of the four seasons and of the churches and the houses built by fellow men that stand throughout the centuries as monuments to man’s aspirations and sense of beauty.

I thank you for the powers of mind which find in the universe an endless and inexhaustible source of interest and fascination, for the understanding of so many elements which make life precious.

I thank you for all the senses you have bestowed upon me and for the delights which they bring me. I thank you for my body itself which is so wonderful and delightful a mechanism.

I thank you for the smile on the face of a woman, for the touch of a friend’s hand, for the laughter of a child, the wagging tail of a dog and the touch of his cold nose against my face.

I thank you for all of these things and many more, and above all I thank you for people with all their goodness and understanding which so far outweigh their vices, their envy, their deceits.

Thank you, God, for life itself, without which the universe would have no meaning.

~ Louis Bromfield

Holiday Art Fest at Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado.

The flowers our Painted Toe Society made decorate the walls and ceilings.

Jackie McFarland was there!!!  Her daughter, Clare, was her chauffeur.

Jackie hopes to rejoin our Painted Toe Society in January!

That will make one full year that she has had to miss coming.

Tuesday night was Bunco!

Vicki Kyle, Jan Schoonveld, Joan Evashevski

Our Third Annual Rotary Thanksgiving Dinner

was given for Seniors on Thursday.

We had a wonderful turnout; about 160 guests.

Even though we had our first big snow, people came!

By Friday, most of the snow was gone and it was a glorious day.

Saturday evening Trish Haynes Tofte and Patrick Lee Rosiere were married!

Rev. Philip Reimers officiated for the very joyous ceremony.

Trish and Patrick left in a shower of soap bubbles.

The reception was held at the home of Deborah and Harold Linke.

O Thou who hast given us so much,

mercifully grant us one thing more … a grateful heart.

~ George Herbert **

November 20, 2016   Reign of Christ Sunday

Previous OPQs may be found at:

http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

*   Thank you, Oralie!

** A Thanksgiving repeat

May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers — all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.

Colossians 1:11-20

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

Remembering

Scott Siler

Son of Kerin Alexander Siler and Al Siler

January 24, 1984 ~ November 16, 2016

Scott with his immediate family:

Scott Siler, Craig Siler, Al Siler, Kerin Siler, Lisa Siler and her partner, Nanthaniel Hunsaker

Addyson is Scott’s 3-year-old niece and this was written by her Grandmother Mimi on Facebook:

Today my granddaughter, Addyson, explained death to me like this. She said, "you go away on a forever trip. Far, far, away. We won't see you and we miss you. And we are sad. BUT, one day long time from now, we get to go on that trip and we will all be together again. And we won't be sad anymore. Right, Mimi?" Only 3. So wise. She loves her family so much. I love our family. To The Silers, all I can offer is love and hugs. 

Jeremiah 23:1-6 with Luke 1:68-79 or
Jeremiah 23:1-6 with

Psalm 46
Colossians 1:11-20
Luke 23:33-43

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