by Bill Byrne | Sep 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
October……It is the fall of the year, a time of very warm days and still , very cool nights. I’m staying at one of our spots on the ranch where beauty comes together in many different forms to create a peacefulness not found elsewhere. The creek here comes off a rock ledge and forms a pool of still waters at the bottom of it. As the water flows over the ledge, there are constant, yet always changing, sights and sounds…the interplay of the rocks, ledges, and white swirls of water, all being framed by the changing color of the leaves of autumn, and all accompanied by the sound of running water, a God given form of music that strikes a chord in all of us. Add to this the rising sun, and fog laying over the field, and the warmth of an early morning campfire, and it becomes an experience to be felt, to be lived
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by Bill Byrne | Sep 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
When you live outdoors with nature and wake up before dawn, there is this beautiful time when all the birds, and animals, join the transition from darkness to light. It is truly a time of tremendous change, a movement from silence to song, and from rest to activity, from night to day. What is it in the start of a new day that makes it something to embrace, to look forward to? Why does the dawn have so much more allure than the evening? To me the morning, the rising of the sun, represents a new beginning…it represents hope. Hope is the feeling that things will be better, that life will improve, that God and a reason for being does exist. Hope is our desire to return to God, to the essence of the seed that we are. Hope is our attuning to the energy that God displays all around us. Hope is facing the sun, spreading your arms, closing your eyes, and feeling the warmth and light flow thru you.
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by Bill Byrne | Sep 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
The first hints of Fall are always nice, with a promise of cooler weather and a little more time away to pursue other interests. Our “season” has been quite busy, with more people being guests at the ranch, and with time spent finishing up the many jobs we started last winter. I always have felt that it is better to have too many things lined up that we want to accomplish, and I like to put a timeline to all our new “adventures”. However, the years are teaching me about patience also. Most everything seems to take longer than planned on, but “here a little, there a little,” one small shovel full at a time with will move great mountains. A valuable lesson I am learning is that patience is an active force, that grows as we use it.
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by Bill Byrne | Aug 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
I was out yesterday in the early morning with all of nature, the sound of running water, and no man-made distraction. I wanted a fire to sit around and warm me up, but in my hurry to have it I neglected to build it from the ground up. That always involves starting small, with paper and twigs, then bigger branches, and then finally smaller logs. I tried to put the bigger wood on too soon, without the smaller branches and twigs, and it took twice as long as normal and much more effort to bring about the beauty and warmth a cozy fire. Many things I do in life are the same way. I ignore ‘here a little’, ‘there a little’, ‘step by step’, in the rush to have it right away. And then of course it does not work as well, takes longer, or is less satisfying. Help me Lord to have more patience, more awareness, and more appreciation of the moment I am in.
by Bill Byrne | Aug 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. That’s a very peaceful feeling phrase, because we feel a bit of the eternity and oneness that it conveys. The cycle, the return to the seed and re-growth, is what nature is all about. On the ranch it is always evident when we move back enough to see the complete cycle. The seed is planted, the newborn arrives, thru growth it matures, and replants its own likeness to begin again. There is a peacefulness and harmony in that cycle, which is a part of us also. It is the oneness of the “ I am” that we are, striving to grow as the child of the “Great I am”, the oneness of all that is.
by Bill Byrne | Jul 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy now…….so goes the song, and for the most part all the animals on the ranch go along with it. In the middle of the day with the sun bearing down, you’ll find all the ranch animals in the shadiest spots they they can find, not moving nor eating, just waiting patiently for the heat to pass into the cool of the evening. As I work outside at various jobs that I think I must do, I can just hear their thoughts of “that guys got a lot to learn” I think they’re right !
