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

These potatoes look very nice indeed, are the result of a fabulous summer, were grown in Tooreenbawn and tasted as good as they look!

Thought on Friday – November – 15/11/2013

‘Most of us go through periods in our lives, especially after difficulties of some kind, when our faith seems to disappear or fade away to a weak shadow of what it was previously. It is a reminder to us that our faith is not as strong and rocklike as we might have imagined when everything seemed to be going well in our lives.’ ~Saint Martin magazine

We all know everything looks great when the sun shines but in the dark cold days of winter it’s hard to see everything at its best. The same can be said when it comes to our spiritual lives. We all hit those days when even our faith seems distant, out of touch and even irrelevant. What gave strength and meaning at one stage of our lives seems to fall short at another stage.

And this is ok. It is ok because it happens to everyone including the saints. If you read the life story of any saint you will inevitably read about the stage in their life where they struggled. Words like ‘desert’, ‘barren’, ‘dry’, ‘meaningless’ and other similar words will be used to describe the experience. So we are certainly not on our own when it happens to us. It might be tempting to give up, but even the heaviest of fog or darkness will always lift. The words of Jesus, “Be not afraid” are the only words we need hold, when it seems we are hanging on.