Photo Friday: Grasp Life by the Balls
2014 has been a hard year so far. This week has been one of the hardest weeks in a difficult year. I think we all go through times in our lives where the battle feels never-ending and the tears fall so often that we begin to adapt to them and experience them as a normal living. Death came calling this week and took a sweet and humble man from our family and from our lives. Death delivers a calling card that stings and leaves us reeling but when we step back and clear our eyes of misty tears we also see death has no real power. God gives us lives so that we might live them and so that we might live them well. God gives and takes away but it is the bit in the middle that we can really make count. Grasp life by the balls my friends as if we don’t we are not really living at all. I give you more than one photo this Friday. Happy Photo Friday all – let your life shine:
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
Image taken in Mozambique (2013)
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. (Socrates) Image taken in Sierra Leone (2014)
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
(Hans Christian Andersen)
Image taken in Mozambique (2013)
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. (Rabindranath Tagore) Image taken in Mozambique (2013)
A super rare photo, and a ‘selfie’ at that, of me (regular followers of this blog will know I do not post these!)
Go in the sea, dance in the rain, make a fool of yourself, love unconditionally and shed tears. Live.
Happy Photo Friday – Laura x
THE THING WITH FEATHERS 
I’m not blogging much these days, but thought I’d pop in and see how you are. I’m sorry to hear death came calling.
Love your photos (nice to see your selfie)
Thanks so much for the message and for stopping by. What has stopped you blogging? The selfie likely to be the only one for a while 🙂
I stopped because it felt as if I were running on a hamster wheel. As hard as I tried I could never catch up. I needed to slow down catch my breath, do something more meaningful.
Sounds good – and very fitting with this post we are writing under 🙂 Enjoy taking life at an even pace x
Death has a way of sobering us up, forces us to look deeply at how we are living our own life, what our priorities are….and life goes on as you show us so well in the images above.