Faith and Courage

Blossom time in the Okanagan


Everything
Changes in the world
But flowers will open
Each spring
Just as usual.

Japanese folk Zen saying

 Charles Fleur de Lys


The 1950s would bring enormous changes to the Ferme Fleur de Lys.  The marriage of Gus and Renee would take place, the road would get started, and Edmond would leave the farm for stretches of a time seeking employment.
The farmers had to have courage to move ahead and faith in their futures on this piece of land. Courage to move through the travails of the winters having the faith that spring would come.

"Faith is the quiet cousin of Courage.  Faith is willing to put its foot out when there is no guarantee that there will be a step to support it. " Judith Lasater