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I stopped at a scenic overlook, and observed this couple. I ended up taking a photo of them both at this pretty spot for them with their phone.
I begin to think of trust is a lot like a flower. Beautiful, unique & delicate. Once the petals fall, its hard to recreate that same exact flower. Like when a trust is broken its often difficult to repair. It can happen, but it takes time.
Also like a flower, trust takes time to grow. To gain roots, stems and leaves before it is in full bloom. And I think its okay for us to take the time to trust others - especially people that are close. We water the flowers, like we water our trust. Reassuring the other person and giving them reasons why they can trust us.
It can be a delicate journey - building trust between people, but when done right, it turns into something beautiful.
He agreed to a portrait but prefered not to look at the camera as he was not that comfortable being photographed. It's such a gift when people, who are camera shy do allow you to make a picture. That's trust. I liked his colourful outfit.
This is T2, the Karori Sanctuary Trust's resident male takahe. The resident female has a more interesting name - Puffin. Oh, well, what can you do? Puffin was evidently incubating an egg, so I did not get to see her. Alas, the egg was eventually abandoned as it was likely infertile.
The takahe is an endangered flightless bird. In fact, the North Island Takahe is extinct. T2 is a South Island Takahe. Males grow to be about 6 lbs (2.7kg). The South Island Takahes were thought to be extinct until a group of them were discovered in Fjordland in 1948. There are a number of predator-free islands and zones where they are being cared for.
I encountered T2 at Zealandia, formerly known as the Karori Sanctuary Trust. He was busy stripping seeds off the grasses. Zealandia is just outside of Wellington proper - amazing to think a busy city is just a few kilometers away! It's a wonderful place to see a profusion of native New Zealand birds and other critters.
The high priests of academia hide behind a curtain of anonymity in the name of objectivity. Quit monkeying around.
Lucky sleeping on my desk, in front of my notebook, the right paw on my leg.
It took two years to build up this trust and i'm very happy about it.
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21st - 23rd Nov 1949 at the Empress Hall, London - the Nijinsky Gala Benefit Performance for the Nijinsky Trust Fund.
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Janet Yellen, economist and Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Google images: Janet Yellen
The Prince of Wales meets Prince's Trust ambassadors at a reception for the The Prince's Trust at his Welsh home, Llwynywermod, in Dyfed.
June 2011.
Petworth, West Sussex.
Petworth House (owned and managed by the National Trust) is a late 17th century Grade I listed country house, having been rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin. It is famous for the extensive art collection of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837), and contains many works by his friend, J.M.W Turner.
Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, Petworth Park is owned and managed by the National Trust, and the wall around the 700 acre deer park is 14 miles long. The grounds are managed sustainably for wildlife and are protected under a Higher Level Stewardship agreement with Natural England. Petworth Park and Pleasure Grounds were transformed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown throughout the 1750s, the formal gardens being replaced with the graceful curves and wide sweeping vistas of a perfect ‘natural’ looking landscape. The Park and Pleasure Grounds were one of Capability Brown’s earliest large-scale commissions and considered by many to be his masterpiece, taking 12 years and no less than five contracts to complete.
Early morning view over a field at Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
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 ]
Petworth, West Sussex.
Petworth House (owned and managed by the National Trust) is a late 17th century Grade I listed country house, having been rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin. It is famous for the extensive art collection of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837), and contains many works by his friend, J.M.W Turner.
Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, Petworth Park is owned and managed by the National Trust, and the wall around the 700 acre deer park is 14 miles long. The grounds are managed sustainably for wildlife and are protected under a Higher Level Stewardship agreement with Natural England. Petworth Park and Pleasure Grounds were transformed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown throughout the 1750s, the formal gardens being replaced with the graceful curves and wide sweeping vistas of a perfect ‘natural’ looking landscape. The Park and Pleasure Grounds were one of Capability Brown’s earliest large-scale commissions and considered by many to be his masterpiece, taking 12 years and no less than five contracts to complete.
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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