There can be beauty in hard things.
Growth upon rock.
Green amidst grey.
The more we go through, the harder the challenges, the more we grow.
May God give me His strength to grow green and beautiful upon the rock.
Love, Lisa
What do you see in the rock?
Good job if you said “elephant”. If you said something else, you’re probably just more creative than the rest of us. 🙂 If you didn’t see him, look again, his trunk is on the left, and he’s laying down in the grass, chilling out by the lake.
When I was younger I used to lay in the grass and look for shapes in the clouds and the tree leaves above my head. I haven’t done that in far too long. It’s funny as you get older, you worry about the bugs or ticks that may be crawling on you, and you forget how to just relax and enjoy laying in the summer grass. I need to change that in the next few days.
Enjoy your summer day. Slainte, Lisa
“There’s no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.” -Irish proverb
Photo by Patricia Edwards in County Clare, 1958.
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After piling the dried hay into 7 to 8 foot stacks, hayropes would be tied down over them. At the end of the ropes were heavy stones to hold the haystacks down in the wind. You can only imagine what would happen if they were not tied down…hay lost, much hard work and sweat gone to waste, and no food for livestock.
This got me thinking about my life…is it tied down? Am I blowing crazily in the wind, or am I secured to the rock? “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.” (Psalm 18:2) Sometimes life gets crazy, and winds are howling, and it feels like you’re going to blow away. But the Rock that is stronger than me will hold me down and keep me together in my “haystack.” Slainte, Lisa
Women helping to create haystacks
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