Photo was taken at Altamount, Millstreet, Co.Cork (Irl)

The weekend was such a contrast with the weather. Saturday was beautiful and sunny while much of yesterday was wet and windy. Our photo today was of course taken on Saturday and this butterfly was making the most of the weather on the Sedum flower.

Thought on Monday – September – 16/09/2013

‘Each day awakens in me a deep sense of the giftedness of my life, of each moment as it comes, freshly minted, from the hand of an infinitely loving God. I have no right to it, no hold on it, no resources in myself that can guarantee the next newly given moment.’ ~Author Unknown

We often mention that life is fragile and precious. We should be grateful for the many good things we have in our lives at the moment. But if we’re honest we do take a lot for granted. Sometimes its easy to grumble rather than praise or affirm. It’s when some crisis or unexpected event happens that we begin to rethink. The current economic downturn has caused massive challenges and readjusting. It has allowed everyone to look at life again and to rethink our approach to living with less. This has been happening over a period of time and we are adapting better to living with less. We are making sure that we survive and adapt to lots of changes all around us. We have had to re think our values and priorities. Some of these are age related but one that is the same across all ages, is to see each moment of every day as precious and sacred. It puts us in a much better position to adapt to the world we live in. Each moment is lent to us, to use and maximise. Equally we can also waste or ignore them. It is so much easier to use and maximise them, if we see them as given to us from the hand of an infinitely loving God.