Sunday

There is a large oil painting on the wall of our dining area that has moved me to eat on the sofa or the balcony. Actually our balcony is a delightful and preferable place to eat anyway, but back to the painting. Here it is ...

I am showing it at the smallest scale in case some readers are having lunch. I am confident you instantly recognize this painting as a hundred miles past ugly. Worse, it is unnerving - three eye-ball heads unblinkingly staring at you while you eat. If ever a book is published on the science of ugly, this will be the cover - a clear qualifier for the Ugly Hall of Fame. As the saying goes: As ugly as a moose chewing ice. Perhaps I could hang it upside down and call it "Unicyclists." Or better yet, hang it back to front. There are some who would say take it down altogether and hang the artist, but of course I am not of that sort.

Meanwhile the sky as seen from our balcony this morning was populated with parachute gliders. 

At 4:20 pm we left in our Sunday best for the bus ride to our meeting which starts at 5:00 pm. Here is a photo of the chairman calling the meeting to order ...

I wore my suit but, due to the heat, merely carried my jacket over my arm. At the hall I learned one needs a jacket only if going on the platform which greatly simplifies things. Also, ties are not worn in the public ministry here which is also welcome news.

I was absolutely and totally into the study today about Hezekiah and the Assyrians, and the prophetic meaning for our time. I must say I also loved the way tangental details we are not sure about are acknowledged but not permitted to get in the way of what we *do* know and need to act on. I thought today's study was a masterpiece!

And that is it for Sunday. No cartoon today but allow me to share with you an interesting quotation:

          "We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the
               Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we
               know this is not true." - Robert Wilensky