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Prince Harry The Prince of Wales meet Prince's Trust participants at the Larkfield Centre in Glasgow.
April 2006.
Early morning view over a field at Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
21st - 23rd Nov 1949 at the Empress Hall, London - the Nijinsky Gala Benefit Performance for the Nijinsky Trust Fund.
It is my junior year, 1978, when disco and Rocky movies are the cultural rage. We are in an unusual sociology class at Brandeis, something Morrie calls "Group Process." Each week we study the ways in which the students in the group interact with one another, how they respond to anger, jealousy, attention. We are human lab rats. More often than not, someone ends up crying. I refer to it as the "touchy-feely" course. Morrie says I should be more open-minded.
On this day, Morrie says he has an exercise for us to try. We are to stand, facing away from our classmates, and fall backward, relying on another student to catch us. Most of us are uncomfortable with this, and we cannot let go for more than a few inches before stopping ourselves. We laugh in embarrassment.
Finally, one student, a thin, quiet, dark-haired girl whom I notice almost always wears bulky white fisherman sweaters, crosses her arms over her chest, closes her eyes, leans back, and does not flinch, like one of those Lipton tea commercials where the model splashes into the pool.
For a moment, I am sure she is going to thump on the floor. At the last instant, her assigned partner grabs her head and shoulders and yanks her up harshly.
"Whoa!" several students yell. Some clap. Morrie finally smiles.
"You see," he says to the girl, "you closed your eyes. That was the difference.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."
[ Tuesdays With Morrie ]
Tatton Park is a vast estate near Knutsford and hosts an annual RHS flower show. As parkland it is the lungs of Greater Manchester, and some important conservation work is undertaken, but as a garden concept, or design, overseen by the National Trust, it lacks character and appears rather municipal. This ancient topiary, near the walled vegetable garden, is the only really interesting area.
I Trust You
I trust you, on all the things, I trust you…
My trust is like child that in his or her mother’s breast lay down to sleep.
I trust you, I trust on the diamond in your loyalty.
I trust in the support that my restlessness offers the tree of your serenity…
I trust you, when you’re close to me, the same is you aren’t..
And continuing your hours, step by step, my thoughts go…
And I trust in the beauty trust from yourself, that teaches me to trust me…
In all of the moments, in all the moments….I Trust You!
Dallelys Avila Gerardino
I agree this looked to me like a fairly sturdy structure. But it has stood vacant for quite a few years. The reason I believe is that it stands at the near-edge of a cliff that has been eroding for quite some time as the Souris River meanders through down below! That river as everybody in the vicinity knows did a nasty job of flooding it's banks this spring. The house in question is in the photo. If you click on the link you will see the house in background pointed out. And that mighty river is not so mighty in the photo. But if you browse through my pic's you will see the damage this river created when it was mighty!
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The old house stands empty and the people who once lived there made a choice to leave it as they could not trust it's stability any longer.
The apostle Paul reminds us that our heavenly Father grafted us into His family through our faith in Jesus Christ, and that Jesus Himself pursued a relationship with us so we could come to know and trust Him. (see Galatians 4:5-6 and see 1 Peter 3:18).
But lets face it, trust is a choice, a risk we take and it is not always an easy choice to trust someone we don't know. And if our relationship with Christ is new we will never learn to trust Him unless we risk walking with Him! Much like the people who lived in the old house, they did not know that when they built the house it would become unstable. That's why trust is a risk and we will never learn whether someone or something is worthy of our trust unless we take that risk. And that's exactly what God invites us to do. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good, David says, blessed is the man who trusts in Him! (Psalm 34:8 KJV). God wants us to take that risk with Him!
When you take that risk to walk with the Lord, you will find out for yourself that He is a trustworthy guide with your best interests and safety at heart and you will learn to trust Him. The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him (Nahum 1:7). With all the turmoil going on in this big old world, God still remains focused on us. Everything He has done through the ages reflects that!
In the Garden, He pursued us.
In the ark, He protected us.
In the wilderness, He provided for us.
And on the cross, He proved to us that He alone is worthy of ultimate trust.
Because God is trustworthy, what He says is also trustworthy. In the beginning was the Word says John, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1). It is impossible to separate who God is from what He says.
The psalmist says that God's Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path (Psalm 119:105). There will be times when your path through this old world will be dark, times when you will desperately need His light to guide you. And when the shadows of life hide Him from your view, you will need the light of His promise that He will never leave you nor forsake you (Joshua 1:5). When life's circumstances rob you of your security, you;ll need the beacon of His assurance that He knows what you need before you ask him (Matthew 6:8). We can trust His Word to guide us when life is dark because He can see better than we can. A man's ways are in full view of the Lord, and because he examines all his paths (Proverbs 5:21). Why don't we trust the Lord? Why don't we trust the words in the bible? Why do we trust our feelings more than we trust what God tells us?
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The Prince of Wales takes part in a catapult game during his visit to the Prince's Trust Cymru Activity Centre at Pembroke Dock.
July 2006.
O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
Psalm 7:1
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After all the B&W last week, it's time for some vibrant color :) This was taken this past Saturday. It was a busy day. I had to work and then after work we were out doing things. As we were going home the day was close to ending. I was watching the sky and commenting to Andrezza that it could turn into a nice sunset. She looked at the grey clouds, then looked at me in disbelief thinking there was no way this sky was gonna give us a sunset. But I had a gut feeling you know. So not long after we got home, I grabbed the camera and was like, "I'm gonna go down to the pond to see if there's anything worth shooting. Wanna come?" She reluctantly tagged along. Once we got there, we didn't have to wait long. Soon the sky was filling with color, and the lack of wind made the pond like a mirror. It was truly beautiful. Andrezza just kind of shook her head with a wry little smile, then took my camera to shoot a few frames of her own. Moral of the story… trust your gut :)
36:366 - Trusting Yourself
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. --Rita Mae Brown
Our distrust is very expensive. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Want to know how to test how well you trust yourself? Do an arts and crafts project. Paint. Draw. Write. It is amazing what you learn about yourself as you move forward. Do you allow yourself to move forward or do you keep changing things? Do you trust yourself enough to not ask anyone for help? Do you finish what you started?
I have realized with writing that I have lost faith in myself. I used to be able to write from my heart and be satisfied with what I had written. I turned away from writing for a while and focused on other things. Now that I am writing again, I realized that I over edit. I found myself analyzing my writing almost to death, adding in paragraphs, even changing the subject of my entire piece. Looking back, I realized that I just didn't trust myself. I knew I was out of practice and decided that what I was writing could not be good enough on the first draft. Of course it couldn't. After all, it was a first draft!! Then my best friend kindly pointed out that often I was revising something that was great and changing it to something that was just acceptable.
How terrible. By not trusting myself, I was devaluing not only what I had written, but also lowering the reality of who I am.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder
I should never allow myself to fail to achieve what I am capable of creating because I have lost faith in who I am. I need to love myself enough to not abuse myself in that matter.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. --Scott Adams
As I saw this piece of artwork at the children's science museum, I realized that this artist had faith in his/herself. What a lovely reminder that we must take lessons from our kids sometimes because they often treat themselves better than we do.
Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire. --Shakti Gawain
Trust yourself. You will be amazed by how much more life has to give.