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

The Beautiful Sea

The sea hath no king but God alone.
~Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
~Robert Henri

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Just Around the Bend

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It had been a long, hard journey across the sea.  Two plane flights, a seven hour layover in NJ, a sprained ankle, and three tired children, including a two and a half year old.  Procuring a rental car, securing the car seat, pouring over the map to locate the roads to Portmagee, and off we drove.  I was determined not to stop until we reached our little cottage.  But this view stopped me….Dingle Bay to my right, the wonders of Kerry just around the bend.  I was filled with expectation and excitement and awe at the beauty that God has made.  My poor worn out two year old and nine year old missed the whole thing, being passed out in the backseat.100_1545  But the view gave me just enough energy to make it to the aforesaid cottage; knowing what might be just around the bend was exciting and kept me driving on.

Keep on driving today….what’s just around the bend is full of wonder and needs you to discover it.  🙂  Slainte, Lisa

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!”  – Isaiah 6:3

Impending Reunion

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I love these pictures.  My two daughters and I had ridden by jaunting car through the Gap of Dunloe, and my son and husband had decided to run/walk their way through and meet us at Brandon’s Cottage.  (You can just see the top of the little daughter’s blonde hair sticking up over the bridge. 🙂  )  We saw them coming and felt extraordinarily happy, as if we had been separated for weeks rather than hours.  And here’s Amy running to greet her daddy and brother.

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One day, when my adventures here on earth are over, there will be an amazing reunion up in the sky, with loved ones who have gone before me, and with Jesus, who loves me and will run to greet me.  What a reunion that will be.  Happy day!  Blessings, Lisa