Consider the lilies of the field

What occurs to you when you do?

Peace and tranquility.

Originally posted by FMF
What occurs to you when you do?

They start toiling with the birds of the air.

They grow.

They band together, set up mobile operations bases and begin to mine and refine Tiberium.

Originally posted by FMF
What occurs to you when you do?

Luke 12:27
“Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

King James Version (KJV)

Originally posted by FMF
What occurs to you when you do?

Luke 12: 27-28
"Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith!"

Consider hypocrisy, mental illness, bitterness, senility and loss.

So happy that the self imposed new thread ban is still in force.

"I want a job," said Archie.

Mr. Wheeler consumed eight fried potatoes in quick succession. He was an able trencherman.

"I always looked on you as one of our leading lilies of the field," he said. "Why this anxiety to toil and spin?"

"Well, my wife, you know, seems to think it might put me one-up with the jolly old dad if I did something."

"And you're not particular what you do, so long as it has the outer aspect of work?"

"Anything in the world, laddie, anything in the world."

~ P.G.Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie

Originally posted by FMF
What occurs to you when you do?

The Ballad of Willie McBride, for some strange reason.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Luke 12: 27-28
"Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith!"

So it occurred to you to copy paste some text? 😛

Originally posted by Gambrel
Luke 12:27
“Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

King James Version (KJV)

What occurs to you when you consider the lilies of the field?

Originally posted by FMF
What occurs to you when you do?

I think of orchids for some reason. I ran into a plausible looking middle aged self-identifying botanist and researcher in West Papua when I lived there. He even had the safari jacket and hat.

It was very unusual to meet fellow foreigners in the town where I was living (I was the only one at one point apart from a couple of elderly Dutch priests) so I helped him out a bit ~ sorted him out a place to stay, interpreted for him, and this and that.

The day after he was supposed to have left, I heard he'd been arrested at the airport trying to smuggle a suitcase of rare and highly valuable orchids out of the province illegally. He was a poacher and not a scientist. I was never implicated for some reason.

Not a story about lilies of the field, I know, but this is what occurs to me when I consider them.

Originally posted by FMF
What occurs to you when you do?

I've had a skin full of beer and a belly full of Indian food and can't make it to the bog ,
so I will get to that Lillie field ,have a dump and whipe me arse on a lilly ...

Originally posted by phil3000
I've had a skin full of beer and a belly full of Indian food and can't make it to the bog ,
so I will get to that Lillie field ,have a dump and whipe me arse on a lilly ...

Not even Solomon in all his glory did that, as far as we know. 😵