What You Love

Posted on May 30, 2014 by lyonsroarforgod

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” ~Dr. Maya Angelou

“If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.”

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.” ~Charles D. Gill

Motivation for you and me both for the weekend. Go for it; if God is in it, He is for you! Blessings, Lisa

Waiting to Sail

Posted on April 11, 2014 by lyonsroarforgod

Waiting to sail upon the deep

Knowing the spray, the salt, the wind

Will wash all cares and thought away

For a time, for a day, for a moment

Waiting to sail away

c 2014 Lisa Lyons

Seeing the Tower or Seeing the Story

Posted on March 13, 2014 by lyonsroarforgod

It’s far too easy when I’m traveling to just focus on the structure, and not really think about the story behind why that structure was built. The real details of what life was like at that time, in and around that building. This is Eask Tower outside of Dingle, Ireland. The 1 mile hike up Carhoo Hill is gentle but persistent. At the top you are rewarded with amazing views of Dingle Harbour and Connor Pass.

This tower was built in 1847 as a famine relief project, headed up by Rev. Charles Gayer. The workers produced an amazing and strong structure…16 feet thick walls, rising 39 feet into the air. The wooden arrow points into the mouth of the blind harbor to help early sailors navigate. It also served as a lookout tower during WWII.

Imagine living during those days….not enough food for your family, for yourself, months and months of weakness, desperation. Yet those workers somehow managed to rally the strength to make this. Things like that always amaze me.

Enjoy your day, and look for the stories. They’re everywhere. 🙂 Slainte, Lisa

*If you are interested in a really good book to give you a small glimpse into what the Irish Famine might have been like, read “Galway Bay” by Mary Pat Kelly. It stays with you long after you’ve finished it.