My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed. . . . And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
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Filed under Faith Foundations, Hay-on-Wye 2015, Holidays, Science & Nature
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 17th 2016
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Colossians 3:2 (NIV*)
*NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 10th 2016
Filed under Gardens, Science & Nature
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
A friend is “trust”, a friend is “warmth”,
A friend is “always there”
To add to every happiness,
To lessen every care.
Anon
7 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2016
Throughout my whole life, during every minute of it, the world has been gradually lighting up and blazing before my eyes until it has come to surround me, entirely lit from within.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Science & Nature
The Land Where Mistletoe Grows
I have been away on a mini break to the land where mistletoe grows and am currently working through the photographs I took while I was away. Work is also rather manic at the moment so bear with me until normal service is resumed
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 16th 2016
Filed under Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015, Science & Nature
Postojna Cave
The cave was first described in the 17th century by the pioneer of study of karst phenomena, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor.[4] In 1818, when the cave was being prepared for a visit by Francis I, the first Emperor of the Austria-Hungary, a new area of the cave was discovered accidentally by local Luka Čeč.
First tourist guide and electric lighting
In 1819, [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 9th 2016
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
See the dwelling place of God among men !
And he will dwell with them,
they will be his people,
and God himself will be with them.
Revelation 21.3
When I was in St Nicholas Cathedral, Ljubljana I looked at the literature (a habit of mine) that is always available near to the entrance of a church. Whilst I [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 4th 2015
