Photo was taken at the RDS, Dublin (Irl)

Billy Twomey makes it look so easy as he sails over this colourful jump. The annual horse show is taking place this week with over 130,000 people expected to visit over the 5 days.

Thought on Friday – July – 05/08/2011

‘Treat yourself the way you are and you will remain so. Treat yourself the way you can become and you will become so.’ ~Author Unknown

We have heard the saying ‘stuck in rut’. It is easy to slip into that place where it feels as if we’re going nowhere. Sometimes we’re happy with this. It can be a safe place to be without having to push ourselves further. But staying exactly the way we are, is not giving ourselves a fair chance. We can become so much more but this can only happen unless we think we can. For anything to happen we must believe in ourselves first. We must always think that if we are stuck in a rut we can move out of it and on. We are capable of doing many things that might seem beyond our reach right now. Straight away we could say: “If I had money I could do so much more and my dreams would become a reality.” But there are also things that money can’t buy and these are within our reach. We pray this weekend for the courage to begin to believe. It is so easy to keep our heads down and do nothing outside our comfort zone. We ask God to gently give us the confidence to believe in what we can do.