Texts: Ezekiel 34: 1-17; John 10: 1-10
In 1785 Marie Antoinette commissioned her favorite architect Richard Mique and court painter Robert Hubert to build what came to be called L’Hameau de la Reine, or the Queen’s Hamlet. Nestled within the properties at Versailles near the Petit Trianon, a special chateau built for Madame de Pompadour thirty years before, this remarkable set of buildings contained a working farm where Marie Antoinette would milk cows into buckets of Sevres porcelain with a specially designed royal seal, have her portrait painted as a shepherdess, and cavort about while the people starved in the slums of Paris. Can anyone who has seen the old Ronald Coleman film A Tale of Two Cities ever forget that scene where the nobleman throws out a copper coin for having run over a small bo...
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 "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" MICAH 6:8 NRSV |
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