Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Put on your dancing shoes

Even though it's raining outside!

Have the confidence and uniqueness

to dance your own path through life.

Follow your own Yellow Brick Road

*Photograph taken by Catherine Nicolette

Thanksgiving and potatoes

Working in the kitchen ...

  with thanksgiving in our hearts

for the fruits and vegetables of the fields

for the rice and potatoes

for the nourishment we need.

Let us look around us ...

is there anyone near us

with whom we can share our bounty?

Sometimes we are the one with the bounty,

and sometimes we are the one in need.

Let us all be brothers and sisters to each other

and extend our open hand, and share of our bounty

As God has blessed us

let us share our blessings with others.

*Please see link for the beautiful song, "Because I have been given much"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuyId4VTotA
With thanks to John Canaan and Youtube for this beautiful video

*Photograph taken by Catherine Nicolette in Ireland. Please feel free to use copyright free for any worthy purpose

An afternoon in Ireland

An afternoon in Ireland

*Photograph taken by Catherine Nicolette

Please feel free to use copyright free

for any worthy purpose

Quietly majestic

Quietly majestic in the late afternoon-

gracious spire pointing heavenwards as a gentle reminder

of God; inspiring us to quiet thanksgiving

and prayer

The beauty of Kroonstad

*Photograph taken by Catherine Nicolette

Ship in full sail

The ship at full sail

Rocks on the ocean's deep

Never will it falter

How can it? It sails on God's own course

The ship is a symbol of our life

Sailing on the rocky waters of our daily challenges

Rolling clouds in the sky threatening our path

Yet sturdy and confident

On we sail

Knowing that - at the last -

we will put into port

Safe in the Harbour of the Home of God

To which each of us - regardless of who we are;

or where we are; - are headed...

May the rain of God's blessings

pour from the clouds of our journey

upon each of us as we

make our way to our final home.

*Beautiful artwork detail in a church taken by Catherine Nicolette. With thanks to the artist

Glowing turban

The beauty of Nigeria

shining brightly in Ireland

*Photograph taken with permission by Catherine Nicolette

Glowing jewel of Amaryllis

The Amaryllis glows like a jewel

in the heart of Kroonstad

How beautiful is South Africa...