Impromptu☀️🙏🏻

I dashed from my cozy home just to photograph my favourite mountain and there met a really lovely couple all the way from New York City who were just about to photograph my favourite mountain too.

Uplifting encounter. I photographed both of them standing lovingly in front of snow capped mountain. I offered them my prayer, they accepted joyfully. I told them about our New York visit last October, my sons and I. How much I loved every minute including and maybe even particularly, Broadway show ‘Our Town’. (Thornton Wilder’s wonderful classic).

We talked about Emily who has no idea how wonderful life is until she dies. Her family, her town…

Gentleman, retired New York Fire fighter, went on to tell me that his life has always been an exciting one and although now retired, he is still every bit as excited about life as he always has been. Me too. I love every inch of my wonderful life from God. Always there is something to be grateful for, no matter what.

All three of us wholeheartedly agree that being alive is no small thing!

My dear Mom would oftentimes say; ‘While there’s life, there’s hope’. I had no idea what her wise words meant back then. I do now!!

‘We will meet in Heaven’, my favourite parting words these days. Lovely lady laughingly replies: ‘We don’t have to wait that long, honey, we purchased a house in your town’.

Was not expecting that magnificent encounter this cold bright day in our town!!

‘O earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realise you. Do any human beings ever realise life while they live it…every, every, minute’. (Emily/Our Town)

‘O tall mountain of confidence in God, you never surrender when the Lord tests you! Although you stand far away from me as if in exile, all alone, you remind me that no armed power is strong enough to best you. Your trust in God is wonderful’. (Hildegard of Bingen)