Weekly Photo Challenge: Purple | Ten-Thousand Plus One

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

~ Thomas A. Edison

Hydrangea Joy | Weekly Photo Challenge: Blue

Grand

Generous 

Abundant

Joy giving

Smile maker

Favorite flower

Enjoy!

Peace,
Alexandria

“A-Z Archive” H! Photo Challenge

“Do It Again”


“…it might be true that the sun rises regularly because God never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life.

The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children—when they find some game or joke they especially enjoy. A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again!” And the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.

It is possible that God says every morning “Do it again” to the sun, and every evening “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike—it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy—but we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

~ G.K. Chesterton

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting Moments | Onward!

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens.
But often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

~ Helen Keller

This is a contribution to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting. It is a redo of a previous one titled Fleeting Moments. My cats are the hardest creatures to photograph. Just when you think you have the perfect shot they move. So here is an opportunity to showcase this one’s fleeting movements one fleeting moment. 🙂

For other contributions to the Challenge, visit the following link:http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/weekly-photo-challenge-fleeting/

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Nourish Joy

“We can thwart the work of God in our own lives. We can choose to nourish that which should be crucified and ignore that which should be nourished. In my own life I came to a point where I realized, joy wants to live here and I don’t have room for joy because I’m full of cynicism. I came to a point where I realized I had to cut out nurturing the cynical part of me.”

~  Rich Mullins

Home Sweet Home

“There’s only one address anyone lives at and it’s always a duplex called Joy and Pain.
They co-habit every season of life. Accept them both and keep company with the joy
while the pain does it’s necessary renovations.”

~ Ann VosKamp

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Dusk … is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel … to be always together, yet forever apart? ~ Nicholas Sparks

Isn’t this so true about life? Burly storm billows amid glimmers of sunray. Keep company with both. Learn the lesson of the storm and savor the comfort of joy.

Then all becomes joy.

Peace,
Alexandria

Asleep in the Light

“The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Breathe a Sigh of Gratitude

“Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks
…and you win joy.”

~ Ann Voskamp

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting Moments | Slowing to Really See

“I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch.
I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf.
I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine….
I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle… is revealed to me.
Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song….
At times my heart cries out with longing to see these things. If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight.
Yet, those who have eyes apparently see little. The panorama of color and action which fills the world is taken for granted….

It is a great pity that, in the world of light, the gift of sight is used only as a mere convenience rather than as a means of adding fullness to life.”

~Helen Keller