I took this photo yesterday lunchtime, at Garryvoe, East Cork (Irl)

It was quite cloudy when I took this photo. But just in front of Ballycotton Lighthouse, a beautiful line of breaking light began to emerge. It was a beautiful sight and a moment of hope in the presence of cloud all around. The photo has deeper  spiritual significance too. Sometimes in life the clouds are always close and near. But no matter how dark it may appear, the light is always close and near. There is always hope and at the very least the possibility of hope.

I have just uploaded my new video below

On This Day 

On Oct 10th 1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world’s first major nuclear accident

On Oct 10th 2004 Having already clinched his record 7th F1 World Drivers Championship, German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher won a record 13th race of the season with victory at the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka

On Oct 10th 2020 Italian teenage Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia at 15, is beatified by Pope Francis in Assisi, Italy

Birthdays Today

Mya (Singer) is 42

Significance Of Today

Today is World Homeless Day. It is estimated that more than 100 million people worldwide are homeless, and at least 1.5 billion people are lacking housing that is adequate.

Interesting Quote for Today

“We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation is a problem that we just can’t solve.”  ~Linda Lingle

Did You Know😇

Did you know that 85% of all of plant life is found in our oceans

My Latest Video 🎥

This is my latest video and it is called ‘A Circle Celebrates You’  A new video is uploaded every Wednesday💕

The video below I had up last week and it is called – ‘A Prayer to our Guardian Angel’. If you would like to see a selection of my other videos on Youtube you can click this link here. https://www.youtube.com/@JamesMcSweeneyFr/videos

 

 

 

Thought For The Week

Team means Together Everyone Achieves More!’ ~Author Unknown

Science has a great way of explaining different things to us. Some scientific results can be applied to life and sometimes with a spiritual message. At an agricultural event scientists gathered and watched one horse pull 3,000kgs and another 4,000 kgs. Together they would be expected to pull 7,000 kgs. However, when they were paired together and measured, the two horses were able to pull a total weight of 15,000kgs. This is impressive. Scientists call it the principle of synergy.

Synergy is explained as the interaction of two parts working together to create something better than either original component. To put it another way, more can be done through team effort than can be accomplished by each individual member. In order for the principle of synergy to work, there has to be teamwork.

We sense and know this. We know that when a team works together great things can happen. In sport there have been great comebacks even when the odds were stacked against them. It is not putting our effort down or saying our effort is not important. But when we can work with someone else, when we can share a worry or crisis with somebody, when we ask for advice or reach out in hope to someone else, the results are so much better.

In the Gospel of Luke we read how Jesus sent them out in pairs ahead of him, into every town and village that Jesus had planned to visit. This was not by chance or accidental. Jesus knew that working together works. It’s the same principle still working today. Who can you reach out to, to make it work better for you?

Thought For The Week is updated each Monday