Tag Archives: God

What’s Around the Corner?

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None of us know what’s around the corner until we step forward and keep going.  Good or bad, it’s our life and life is full of learning.  As we travel through, around, beneath, and atop, we will discover many things.  Beauty, joy, and peace are the things my soul longs for. God has placed these things in the smallest of leaves, the intricacy of cloud formations in the sky, the amazingness of rocks that somehow hold together for hundreds of years.  His love for me is written in the sky, and in the earth He created, and on His hands and feet.  I just have to remember to keep looking.  I would love to hear from you how you see and hear God the best.   Slainte, Lisa

Searching

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We spend a lot of our lives searching for that perfect rock, that perfect job, that perfect love.  Sometimes what we’re looking for is staring us right in the face; it’s waiting just on the other side of the door.

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.  I will be found by you,” declares the Lord. ~Jeremiah 29:13-14a

Blessings, Lisa

The Healing Powers of an Enticing Goal from an Amazing God

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God can use all sorts of things to heal us, to lift our spirits for a time and give us hope.  This picture shows us happily smiling with an amazingly beautiful view behind us in Portmagee, Ireland.  What the picture doesn’t show is the hike that preceeded it, one foot placed after the other to reach the top.  What it also doesn’t show is my sprained right ankle, carefully wrapped and tucked tightly inside a laced-up boot.  You see, I had turned it two days earlier in the airport enroute, and I thought hiking was definitely out of the question for a few more days.  I had iced, rested, elevated, but I was in IRELAND, baby!  We drove by this short hike, and I said, “Let’s try it….I can stop if it gets too bad.”  Step, step, step, keep going, almost there…..aaaahhhh…look at that view!!!!  🙂  And suddenly, that ankle felt so much better.  And it was fine the rest of the trip.  God’s beauty, a goal, what a great combination.

Note to self:  Must remember this story and keep on looking for the views.  🙂

Blessings on your day, Lisa

Unchangeable, Invincible, Unmoveable

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Summit of Carrantuohill, Summer of 2001, Joshua Lyons

Summit of Carrantuohill, Summer of 2001, Joshua Lyons

I read a few weeks ago that vandals snuck to the top of Carrantuohill in Co. Kerry, Ireland, and cut down part of the metal cross at the summit.  No doubt they felt justified or glorified in this cowardly act of vandalism. (Note: See end of this post for the update to this story.)  But to me, it’s just sad.  They don’t realize what they were doing….that no removal of a man-made symbol of Jesus will change who He is and what He does.  He will be coming back in amazing triumph and power, and everyone will see Him and be amazed.  He is unchangeable, invincible, unmoveable.  He is the Rock of all time.  Cling to Him as life churns around you.  He will be your fixed and firm point.  Certainty.  Blessings, Lisa

****Happy ending:  The cross was rebuilt within a week of the vandalism!  🙂  Lift high the Cross!

Carrantuohill cross back in place

Posted on November 30, 2014 by John O’Mahony • 2 Comments

 

THE mindless vandals that uprooted the giant cross at the summit of Carrauntoohil have got an answer they probably never expected after a proud community reinstated the steel structure to its rightful place within a week.

The MacGillycuddy Reeks Mountain Access Forum supervised the mammoth task of re-erecting the five meter cross on Saturday and it now stands proudly on top of the 1,038m peak.

A dedicated team of volunteers scaled the mountain to ensure the cross was put back in place and the work was overseen by height work specialist Mike O’Shea, staff from the Liebherr container cranes plant in Fossa, Beaufort Community Council embers and local landowners.

The MacGillycuddy Reeks Mountain Access Forum have thanked all those who offered their support and assistance and a spokesman said there would be many opportunities in the future to help with projects in the Reeks area, such as remedial works to prevent further erosion.

* Pictures: Valerie O’Sullivan. Click on images to enlarge and for informatio

Picking the Best in 2015

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Navigating a new year can be a lot like apple picking.  You look, you search, you find.  The good apples stay with you; the bad apples, they get thrown down, or left on the tree,  and you move on.  Not to say that you don’t feel regret for those bad apples.  What they could have been.  People of course, are different.  All of us have been bad in our lives, all of us could be better than we are.  But thank goodness that God keeps working with us, pruning us, helping us to be apples in His image.  As you pick your way through 2015 along with me, let’s keep our eyes fixed tightly on the One who can make us what we need to be.  And as we make mistakes, or run into those bad apples along the way, we’ll pray, hopefully laugh a little, dust ourselves off, and move forward.  Blessings to you!  Lisa