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The Castle-Builder

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THE CASTLE-BUILDER        

A gentle boy, with soft and silken locks

A dreamy boy, with brown and tender eyes, 

 A castle-builder, with his wooden blocks,

 And towers that touch imaginary skies.

A fearless rider on his father’s knee,  

An eager listener unto stories told

At the Round Table of the nursery,    

Of heroes and adventures manifold.

There will be other towers for thee to build;    

There will be other steeds for thee to ride;    

There will be other legends, and all filled    

 With greater marvels and more glorified.

Build on, and make thy castles high and fair,  

 Rising and reaching upward to the skies;   

 Listen to voices in the upper air,      

 Nor lose thy simple faith in mysteries.

 ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Blessings on your day, and build your castles!  🙂  Lisa

Secret Garden

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“She was inside the wonderful garden and she could come through the door under the ivy any time and she felt as if she had found a world all her own.” ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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“The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place.”  ~Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

My plan for the day?  Look for the beauty of my secret garden…because it’s there if I look hard enough.  Beauty, joy, peace, stillness, God.  And when I find it, I will turn the key and go inside.  Blessings, Lisa

The Adventurous Trail

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“You are on an adventurous trail with Me. This is not an easy time, but it is nonetheless good – full of blessings as well as struggles.  Be open to learning all that I want to teach you as you journey through challenging terrain.  And be willing to let go of familiar comforts so you can say a wholehearted “Yes!” to this adventure.  I will give you everything you need to cope with the challenges you face…..”

I had to share with all of you part of a little book that I heartily recommend. Jesus Today  by Sarah Young.  I read it every morning for my time with God, and it has helped to encourage me so much.  (This is no small thing, because I am terrible about being regular with devotions.)  The author has gone through some pretty challenging health struggles before writing this book, and uses the things she has learned from God along the journey.  So look for it….it will definitely encourage you and remind you that you are never, ever alone.  Slainte, Lisa

Building the Bridge

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An old man, going a lone highway,

Came, at evening, cold and Grey,

To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,

Thru which was flowing a sullen tide.

The old man crossed in the twilight dim:

The sullen stream had no fears to him;

But he turned, when safe on the other side,

And built a bridge to span the tide.

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim, near,

“You are wasting strength with building here;

Your journey will end with the ending day;

you never again must pass this way;

You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide –

Why build you the bridge at the eventide?”

The builder lifted his old grey head:

“Good friend, in the path I have come” he said,

“There followeth after me today,

A youth, whose feet must pass this way.

This chasm, that has been naught to me,

To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.

He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;

Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.

~Will Allen Dromgoole

I pray that you have a wonderful, bridge-building kind of day.  Slainte, Lisa

*Photo taken on a beautiful day on a lake in County Kerry.  From a boat…aahhh.  🙂