Which way to Connemara?
Amanda and I found this back road (and will probably never be able to find it again) on our recent trip to Ireland. I thought it would be perfect for Cee’s “Which Way Challenge”.
See more roads taken or not at:
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/11/19/cees-which-way-photo-challenge-2014-21/
Winter put in its first appearance this morning. It was gone by noon but left all of Winchendon MA in anticipation of the first big storm!
Check out Nancy’s photo blog to see how her other contributors interpreted the weekly theme: ANTICIPATION
You can find lots of achievements by going to
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/achievement/
Here is a pictorial display of some of mine.
The band Cloverton played to a nearly sold out house in our church last week.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
My daughter Melanie married the man of her dreams last Saturday
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
I achieved the goal of travelling to Ireland this fall.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Autumn Snows
Normally these posts come out on Sunday but the weekend was so HUGE I didn’t have a moment to post.
The promise as seen from Galway bay.
“Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.”
― Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I’d Like to Give to You: A Sourcebook of Joy and Encouragement
My daughter is getting married this afternoon. So I am choosing my sliding color with great joy today!
Check out other oddities at
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: Week 36
Dead faces at Blarney Castle.
This week’s word challenge from Sue is: RECLINE
See how everyone else has laid down the challenge at:
http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-recline/
Here are my shots at reclining:
Me reclining after walking up the “Rocky” stairs at the Philadelphia Art Museum.
Reclining in Delft
This is how we recline at Vacation Bible School
Howdy-Do! This week’s Fun Foto Challenge From Cee is: BARK OR LEAVES
http://ceenphotography.com/fun-foto-challenge/
Here’s a little leaft over from my trip to Ireland. Don’t worry the bark is worse than the bite.
A tree by the River Martin
The bark at Torc
Giant leaves in the rock close at Blarney
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. I John 1:5-7
When I get to Heaven I expect many surprises. I get more than most that there are things about Christianity that just don’t make sense within the current context of a fallen sinful world. We have never known anything but this so how could we expect ourselves to understand something that is totally other than this?
For instance: How do we work out the concept of eternity (the absence of time) in a universe that measures everything in time. How do we rationalize having complete free choice under the auspices of a completely sovereign God? How can innocence ever return when the knowledge of good and evil is so deeply ingrained within our race? AND how can Something or Someone be entirely light in a universe that is only able to measure light by the amount of darkness it dispels?
We cannot fully explain these things now but we Christians must firmly hold to them because God has taught them in His Word.
As Amanda and I mosied from Moher along the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, we traveled into a place called the Burren.
A veritable moonscape splattered along the Western coast of Ireland, the Burren is the badlands between the green spaces of Kerry and Connemara. Amanda and I were struck to silent wonder as we twisted the corkscrew roads down into the nothingness and back up and out again towards the bay of Galway. Always in our travels there was this light in the midst of the lonely terrain that reminded us that magic and mystery can exist side by side with the natural man.
The sun was setting over the Bay of Galway as we pulled into the SaltHill Hotel along Ocean Dr. As it nestled itself to sleep under a haze of dark black cloud I was reminded that I may not know how time and eternity, sovereignty and free will, innocence and knowledge, or light and darkness can exist perfectly side by side, but there are a great many things I do not know or have not seen; My not knowing them or not seeing them does not make them any less so.
What parts of God’s Word do you struggle with because it doesn’t seem to match up with what you have experienced?
Lillie-Put 