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

A might colourful parade took place in Millstreet yesterday in lovely sunshine, as part of the European Juggling Convention. There were hundreds of participants and equally hundreds more watching it. Well done everyone!!

Thought on Monday – July – 28/07/2014

Thought For The Week will be updated tomorrow Tuesday

Thought For The Week

‘By nature we fear and we horde. Because of this, whether we are poor or not, we tend to work out of a sense of scarcity, fearing always that we don’t have enough, that there isn’t enough and that we need to be careful in what we give away. It’s as if we can’t afford to be too generous’ ~Ronald Rolheiser

The sun is extraordinarily generous giving away huge parts of itself every second. Scientists tell us that every second, inside the sun, the equivalent in size of 4 million elephants are being changed into light. If this generosity stopped, all energy as we know it would lose its source and everything we know would die including ourselves. We live because of the generosity of the sun. God’s generosity is exactly similar. We may horde, fear the worst, hold onto as much as we can, including negative stuff. But this is not the way that God thinks.

God is so rich in love and generosity. It is beyond measure. In the Gospels one story stands out, about the man who went off and hid the talent he was given. He could not believe that God could be so generous and so he grew fearful and afraid. All he could do was hide, instead of sharing the talent and gaining so much more without even asking. During these summer days we are enjoying whatever sunshine comes our way. May it always be a reminder of God’s incredible generosity towards each of us.

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