Weekly Photo Challenge: Optomistic

The Daily Post has asked us to share photos of things that fill us with OPTIMISM  even when everything in the world is seeming to fall apart.

You can click the underlined link to find over a hundred things to inspire optimism.

Here are my sources:

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My first source of hope and uplifting is Christ. going to Him in prayer always makes my day.

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My little dogs are great sources of joy

Then of course there is the family. This isn’t all of them but they are an optimising bunch.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering

I noticed that I missed a week of Photo Challenge and so this is me catching up. Here are some photos of GATHERING.

Check out other gatherings at the underlined link above:

 

The Season Called Now!

The Daily Post has challenged us to show our audiences what is going on RIGHT NOW.

Click what is underlined above to see the world of nowishness around the globe.

It is a season of highs and lows. Christmas pagents. Christmas banquets. Christmas sermons. Christmas prayer circles. Tonight I have a Christmas funeral and then tomorrow I will preach Christmas Eve.

The Daily Post: OOPS!

The Daily post has challenged us to show some of our OOPS PICTURES.

Check them out by clicking the underlined link.

Truthfully I am an abysmal photographer. Most of my pictures are epic fails. But I am given to flights of fancy and a certain love for impressionism; so I just take that to a photographic level.

Here are two of my “failures”

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“A Dublin Bird Days ‘No!'”

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“Puppy On the Beach”

The Daily Post: Trio

This post is in response to The Daily Post’s Challenge: TRIO

Here are some things that come in threes:

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The kiddos!

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Mercedes’ litter: Bandit, Fred and Snug

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Three lamps to light the way.

I had thought of the greatest Three of all, but getting the Father, Son and Holy Spirit all in one photo turns out to be a little difficult for this photographer.

What Does Victory Look Like

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Victory.”

Here are just a few reminders of victory from my family album.

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Where there is unity there is always victory.

Publilius Syrus 

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The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Pierre de Coubertin 

Me before the Rocky Stairs

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Me after the Rocky Stairs, but I made it!

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We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~Marquise de Sévigné