Sunny Vs. Soft Day

Someone recently commented to me that most of my Ireland pictures were taken on cloudy/rainy/soft days.  And I responded that for some reason I liked the pictures of Ireland taken on those soft days better than the sunny ones.  Although, when we are in Ireland, I appreciate the warm sunny days so much.  But there’s something about old castles, craggy mountainsides, and sheep in the foggy mist that hit me as just about perfect.  🙂  What do you think? Comment below.  Here are two sets of similar pictures taken on two different days, with very different weather.   Enjoy your sunny or soft day today.  Slainte, Lisa

Soft day cliff

Soft day cliff

Sunny cliffside

Sunny cliffside

Sunny day Ballycarberry castle ruin

Sunny day Ballycarberry castle ruin

Soft day castle ruin

Soft day castle ruin

 

 

 

 

Viewing History

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Hundreds of years past today, our descendants will look back at 2013 and ponder, pontificate and conjecture about our culture, our political movements, our ancient houses and inventions, which by then will be obsolete.  Which rather freaks me out, as it’s hard to think past tomorrow, much less hundreds of years from now when I am singing and hopefully flying(!) in Heaven.  🙂

Take Blarney Castle, for example.  Now, visitors from all over the world travel to the elusive and fabled “Blarney Stone” to kiss the lay-on-your-back, bend-backwards and downwards-stone to receive their Irish gift of gab.  But when Cormac McCarthy lived there in the 1400’s, he didn’t foresee all that.  He was just trying to keep Britain from taking the castle, by stalling, planning banquets for the invaders, and finally escaping attack by using the underground tunnels to go to Kerry and Cork.  He was living his life, and hopefully living it well.

So I’m not going to think about this any longer….I’m going to try to live my life today well, no looking back, and looking forward in hope.  And I pray the same for you.  Slainte, Lisa

Hill, Mountain

Hill, mountain…whichever it is, it is beautiful, rocky, steep, and gives a feeling of forever, permanence.  Like the ocean, it points to God and gives me great peace.

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It’s not a hill, it’s a mountain
As we start out the climb
Listen for me, I’ll be shouting
Shouting to the darkness
Squeeze out sparks of light      (U2)

May God bless your Monday with smooth hills, peace, and sparks of light.  Slainte, Lisa

Living Now

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Animals are always therapeutic to watch.  They live life, unconcerned about what may happen tomorrow,  not mulling over what happened last week…mostly just thinking about now.  About food now, about a soft place to lay, about enjoying their walk.  Take these sheep for instance; they are eating, seemingly unaware of the impending cliff dropoff in front of them by only a few feet.  Yet amazingly they never got even close to falling off the whole time we were there.  Their little feet instinctively seemed to know where to walk.

I need to be a sheep.  Or my dog.  Just trusting, enjoying the now, and walking by the Light of God that guides me away from cliffs.  Blessings, Lisa

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” – Psalm 119:105