I hope you will forgive this device of "Lovely Bits of Life",
which seems a bit superfluous given the whole blog is dedicated to
the wonderful in the everyday.
The reason I'm employing it is to pick up on the fact that
so much of my recent time has been spent resting and feeling ill, and then
"Bingo!"
there have been extreme contrasts
of something really beautiful and "other" in between.
For instance, this photo was taken from the patio of a beautifully restored fisherman's cottage hubby and I got to share with our family, a couple of weeks ago.
I hadn't been well enough to spend the whole week there
but we had travelled down by train the night before to spend two days,
and arrived after dark.
The morning brought this sight of the water front from the patio,
with the bobbing boats practically at our feet.
(That's my coffee cup in the lower left hand corner.)
Above our heads was a blue, blue, sun-filled Mediterranean style sky.
Thinking about the uncertainty, and sheer randomness of life's happening
it was this palm tree and deep blue sky,
( which could have equally well have been snapped last year
when we were in Turkey, or Greece),
when we were in Turkey, or Greece),
which somehow spoke to me,
bringing to mind as it did words from the old song,
"Up above my head I hear music in the air".
We may be familiar with the words,
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning . Ps 30:5
but we never can know the how, or the where of it:
never can know when our mourning will be changed to dancing,
but we can keep faith with the music,
and the strangely weaving dance of that faith,
which is uniquely ours.
I've included two versions of the song "Up Above Your Head",
(both by women as it happens),
just to emphasise how important it is to
sing your own song,
in your own way.
Without your voice creation wouldn't be complete.
Who knew Sister Rosetta was such a rocking mama!
Blessings
