“Whoever welcomes one such child in my name …”

 

 

They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again." But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.

Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the way?" But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, "Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all." Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, “whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”  

Christ Blessing the Children

MAES, Nicolaes

between 1652 and 1653

National Gallery

London

Great Britain

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20180921546687730&code=ACT&RC=56627&Row=6

 

 

 

 

Speak to your children as if they are the wisest,

kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth,

for what they believe is what they will become.

~ Brooke Hampton

 

 

 

 

The moment you doubt whether you can fly

you cease forever to be able to do it.

~ J.M. Barrie

 

 

 

 

Open Door Studios

September 15 & 16, 2018

Artist Laura Mehmert in her studio with Sydney Denius, Shimi McKenzie, Gail Wager.

 

 

Patsi Pohl in her studio.

 

 

 

Foothills Art Center

Golden, Colorado

Spirit Glass by Damien Gilley

August 17, 2018 - October 21, 2018

Damien is a contemporary installation artist who plays with perspective, line and lighting to create unique and immersive experiences.

In this show, Damien has experimented to extend the definition of the physical space of Foothills Art Center. The building was originally a Presbyterian church and retains some of the original stained glass windows. He uses miniature constructions of refractive and reflective surfaces and allows light to cross through the colored glass creating constantly changing moving patterns across the walls.

My profile as I passed in front of a light source.

It is almost impossible not to dance or at least to strike a pose!

 

 

This big 14-pointer has been gathering his small harem (about 25) on the golf course and in the neighborhood.  AND … he has been keeping our whole neighborhood awake at night with his bugling.

 

 

Chew and Chat at Chuy’s in Belmar

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Jackie McFarland, Kay Owen, Sondra Kellogg, Karla Byrd, Carolyn Alexander

 

 

Region VII Third Biennial Conference 

Boy Scouts of America

Estes Park, Colorado

September 6-15, 1924

Jack and Dottie found this old photo hanging in the Main Lodge at the YMCA Camp in Estes Park.

Jack has the same photo and our father is in it!!!

 

Henry Kleeb Alexander

September, 1924

 

 

The Rotary Club of Evergreen

Mereth Meade Recycle Day

Saturday, September 22, 2018

An amazing number of bikes, crutches, paints, mattresses, scrap metal, etc.,

were gathered on a gorgeous day.

The shredding truck was filled within two hours.

 

 

It was wildly successful!

 

 

Jack and Dottie Alexander and I visited the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave

on Lookout Mountain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 16, 2018    Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Year B

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein 

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

 

 

Indian Hills, Colorado

 

 

 

 

 

Proverbs 31:10-31
Psalm 1 or
Wisdom of Solomon 1:16-2:1, 12-22 or Jeremiah 11:18-20
Psalm 54
James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a
Mark 9:30-37

 

 

 

 

Proverbs 31:10-31

A capable wife who can find?
   She is far more precious than jewels.
The heart of her husband trusts in her,
   and he will have no lack of gain.
She does him good, and not harm,
   all the days of her life.
She seeks wool and flax,
   and works with willing hands.
She is like the ships of the merchant,
   she brings her food from far away.
She rises while it is still night
   and provides food for her household
   and tasks for her servant-girls.
She considers a field and buys it;
   with the fruit of her hands
   she plants a vineyard.
She girds herself with strength,
   and makes her arms strong.
She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.
   Her lamp does not go out at night.
She puts her hands to the distaff,
   and her hands hold the spindle.
She opens her hand to the poor,
   and reaches out her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid for her household when it snows,
   for all her household are clothed in crimson.
She makes herself coverings;
   her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Her husband is known in the city gates,
   taking his seat among the elders of the land.
She makes linen garments and sells them;
   she supplies the merchant with sashes.
Strength and dignity are her clothing,
   and she laughs at the time to come.
She opens her mouth with wisdom,
   and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
She looks well to the ways of her household,
   and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children rise up and call her happy;
   her husband too, and he praises her:
"Many women have done excellently,
   but you surpass them all."
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,
   but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Give her a share in the fruit of her hands,
   and let her works praise her in the city gates.

Psalm 1

Happy are those who do not follow
   the advice of the wicked,
or take the path that sinners tread,
   or sit in the seat of scoffers;

but their delight is in the law 
   of God,
and on God's law they meditate 
   day and night.

They are like trees planted by streams of water,
   which yield their fruit in its season,
and their leaves do not wither.
   In all that they do, they prosper.

The wicked are not so,
   but are like chaff 
that the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand 
   in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation 
   of the righteous;

for God watches over the way 
   of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked 
   will perish.

Wisdom 1:16-2:1, 12-22

But the ungodly by their words and deeds summoned death;
   considering him a friend, they pined away
and made a covenant with him,
   because they are fit to belong to his company.
For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves,
   "Short and sorrowful is our life,
and there is no remedy when a life comes to its end,
   and no one has been known to return from Hades.

"Let us lie in wait for the righteous man,
   because he is inconvenient to us
and opposes our actions;
   he reproaches us for sins against the law,
     and accuses us of sins against our training.
He professes to have knowledge of God,
   and calls himself a child of the Lord.
He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
   the very sight of him is a burden to us,
because his manner of life is unlike that of others,
   and his ways are strange.
We are considered by him as something base,
   and he avoids our ways as unclean;
he calls the last end of the righteous happy,
   and boasts that God is his father.
Let us see if his words are true,
   and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;
for if the righteous man is God's child, he will help him,
   and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.
Let us test him with insult and torture,
   so that we may find out how gentle he is,
      and make trial of his forbearance.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death,
   for, according to what he says, he will be protected."

Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray,
   for their wickedness blinded them,
and they did not know the secret purposes of God,
   nor hoped for the wages of holiness,
nor discerned the prize for blameless souls;

Jeremiah 11:18-20

It was the Lord who made it known to me, and I knew; then you showed me their evil deeds. But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. And I did not know it was against me that they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered!" But you, O Lord of hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have committed my cause.

Psalm 54

Save me, O God, 
   by your name,
and vindicate me 
   by your might.

Hear my prayer, 
   O God;
give ear to the words 
   of my mouth.

For the insolent have risen 
   against me,
the ruthless seek my life;
they do not set God 
   before them.

But surely, 
   God is my helper;
God is the upholder 
   of my life.

God will repay my enemies
   for their evil.
In your faithfulness,
   put an end to them.

With a freewill offering
   I will sacrifice to you;
I will give thanks to your name, 
   O God,
for it is good.

For God has delivered me
   from every trouble,
and my eye has looked in triumph
   on my enemies.

James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a

Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth. Such wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish. For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.

Mark 9:30-37

They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again." But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.

Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the way?" But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, "Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all." Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, "Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."