Photo was taken at Dun a Ri Forest Park, near Kingscourt, Co.Cavan (Irl)
Dun a Ri Forest Park is such a delight and the best way to get around is by walking it. There are many bridges like the one in our photo today, throughout the forest park and each one blends in seamlessly with the beauty all around them.
There is a great diversity of wildlife to be found at Dun a Ri. In the Cabra river are found otters, mink, trout and even some salmon, in season. The park is home to a large variety of insect and invertebrate life which provide food for the resident pipistrelle and long-eared bats. In the forest can be found fox, badger, stoat, red and grey squirrel, hedgehog, rabbit, rat and mice. Birdlife is varied and includes species associated with both woodland and water. The duck pond and lake have several visitors as well as resident populations of ducks and moorhens. A wide variety of birds including warblers, finches, tits, jays and pigeons inhabit the woods and open areas. The flora is varied and in many areas spectacular.
Thought on Thursday – July – 21/07/2016
Thought For The Week
‘God’s love doesn’t discriminate, it simply embraces everything. Like the sun it doesn’t shine selectively, shedding its warmth on vegetables because they are good and refusing its warmth on the weeds because they are bad. It just shines on everything and irrespective of its condition, receives its warmth.’ ~Ronald Rolheiser
Words like incredible, brilliant or amazing could be used to describe God’s love. To say that God loves us when we are good and that God loves us when we are bad is indeed amazing. But it also throws up some key questions. The first big one is why bother to be good if God loves everyone the same and equally? To bother to be good means that love is always the priority. We aren’t loved because we are good, but we become good because we experience love. The more love we experience the better it is for us, our family, our community and the world we live in.
We do our best to grow in love, to nurture it, to share it, to celebrate it and to allow it shape us into the wonderful person God created us to be. Sure enough, we sometimes stumble and sometimes fall spectacularly. Does this mean that we should abandon the road of love that guides us each day? Of course not! The same goes with God. God loves the sinner but hates the sin. There is a big difference between the two. So today should be a day to begin to believe in you, to believe in God’s love for you and to believe that now is the time to start again, even after a stumble or fall in your life.
