I know it’s a photo of a photo but what a fab photo by photographer Eoin O’Sullivan. It was taken at the weekend during the Cork 20 Rally and it was printed in Cork’s Evening Echo last evening.

The video link for the photo is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RW9PzWMgmQ
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Well worth watching!!!

Thought on Thursday – October – 10/10/2013

‘Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves, about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth.’
~ Benjamin Hoff

Even in this second week of October there seems to be wasps everywhere. They hang around rubbish bins, around the kitchen door and are so annoying as they fly around in circles. It would be a pity though to put the honeybee into the same category. The honeybee will not be found near rubbish bins or around our kitchen doors. Instead it will be busy gathering nectar from what flowers are still around at this time of year, which is mainly ivy. For every drop of honey they make they have to collect 80 drops of nectar. They have worked it out that to make a jar of honey the bees will have to visit two million flowers! There is an old saying that says ‘There are no results without effort’ and the honeybee knows this only too well.

Jesus in our Gospels also talks about no results without effort. He reminds us that even as a follower of his we will still be exposed to difficulties, setbacks, hurt and disappointments. We can’t avoid these. They are part and parcel of life. Jesus calls them a cross but assures us that whatever our cross, he will be there to help us carry it, whatever it might be.