Monthly Archives: September 2014

Share Your World 2014 Week 37

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It’s time once again to give you a glimpse into my world with Cee’s help of course

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Broaden your own world’s horizons by visiting:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/09/15/share-your-world-2014-week/

And while you’re at it  share your world with the rest of us by answering these questions in a blog post of your own.

The questions are…

List three pet peeves.

1. alligators in my bed

2. sunspots

3. people who mix liver into fruit salad.

Actually I tried to answer this seriously, but I thought of the people who perpetrate these pet peeves and so I thought it just best to keep the whole thing to myself.

What makes you unique?

Why my pet peeves of course! 🙂

Actually I think the best answer is…God makes me unique. I have a relationship with my Savior God which is intensely personal and unique to me and Him. The good news is that each man and woman in the world can have a unique relationship with God just like mine (that would seem to be the very definition of not unique but that’s the thing with God, He defies definition)

Would be your ideal birthday present, and why?

Lately I have been craving a massage because of my intensely sore and tired muscles. Someone else wrote a day at the spa as their ideal birthday present and I think I could go for that a mud bath and a hot rock treatment right about now.

Which way does the toilet paper roll go? Over or under?

I solved this whole issue by breaking the toilet paper holder off the wall. So currently the toilet paper goes sideways as it sits on the shelf. And I wasn’t even thinking of my pet peeves when I broke it.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am so grateful that just this morning I got up and did a stretching video. it is nice to be back to exercising and I look forward to exercising at least 5 times over the next week.

Xerox, Kleenex, Jello, and Frisbees

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What’s in THE NAME.

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Every so often a company creates a product that is so innovative and long-lasting that they become proprietary eponyms.  Proprietary eponyms are brand names for products that are so popular that they become commonly used for the product even if it’s made by a different manufacturer.  Some examples include kleenex, jello, band-aid, white out, frisbee, and scotch tape.  Older folks may even remember “fridge” from Frigidair refrigerators,  “xerox” from Xerox copy machines, and “windex” from Windex glass cleaner.

      

So names can be important.  When children are born, often the parents look for the literal meaning of the name itself.  Or there may be a great significance to the name within the paternal or maternal side of the family.  Last names are gaining in importance in the U.S. as more and more people become interested in tracing their ancestry.  My wife and I have become very interested in tracing our family backgrounds for the…

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Caddo’s Seven Word Sunday 9-14-14

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Watching the next generation rise up gratifies!

 

Yesterday my oldest daughter did a bang up job planning and running her younger sister’s wedding shower. I got to see my little girl in her wedding dress! And then I went to a concert put on by a young man I literally watched grow up in our church. I am glad to see those to whom I will one day pass the torch become powerful in their own right!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Humanity

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This week’s photo challenge from THE DAILY POST is : HUMANITY

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/humanity/

Here are my thoughts on humanity

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ― Mother Teresa
You can be in a play
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” ― Joseph Addison
“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.” ― Gustave Flaubert

Dust Kiddies Pt. 4

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Little Lamb! Little Lamb! Who hath made thee?

Little Lamb! Little Lamb! Who hath made thee?

 

Today’s post is 4th in a series on the frailty of man and the strength of God. If you missed any of the previous posts you can find them at:

https://josephelonlillie.com/2014/09/09/dust-kiddies-pt-1/

https://josephelonlillie.com/2014/09/10/dust-kiddies-pt-2/

https://josephelonlillie.com/2014/09/11/dust-kiddies-pt-3/

 

Yesterday we discussed how the Lord wants to help us overcome our weakness and proclivity towards sin. That is good news! But there is more besides. Not only does God want to help us overcome our weakness, He wants to fill us with power that is not ours to accomplish great things. We  were meant from something great but before we can do that great thing we must realize we cannot do it in our own strength.

Speaking through the apostle Paul God tells us,

6 For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.

7 We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure.[a] This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. 2 Cor. 4:6, 

When I first became a Christian the church was singing this song,

 

 

 

 

 

 

We dust kiddies were meant to be the temples of the Holy Ghost ; And because we are the temples of the Holy Spirit we are “Filled with praise, with power and with glory.”

You are the temple of the Holy Ghost Dust Kiddie and you were meant to do something great.

You may say “I can’t do anything great.” 

But that is not true. Madeleine L’Engle writes,

“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there’s no danger that we will confuse God’s work with our own, or God’s glory with our own.”

― Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

And that great missionary James Hudson Taylor said,

“All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on God being with them.”

― James Hudson Taylor

 

Listen! Our lives with God and our service to God should challenge us. Our Christianity should make us realize we are living out the impossible.

When was the last time your service to God drove you to your knees?

When was the last time you allowed  God to give you a task that was outside of your comfort zone?

Our work for God should drive us to our knees on a regular basis not because we are so righteous and godly we always pray but out of desperation because it is beyond us.Our work for God needs to be bigger than our own power to accomplish it. It needs to challenge us to a place beyond our own ability. It needs to drive us to prayer.

If you have gotten to a place where you have allowed ministry to become comfortable, if you have lost the challenge of ministry today or maybe you have never allowed the Lord to challenge you in ministry will you allow Him today to offer that challenge? Will you begin to ask Him to fill your earthen vessel with a light that will bring you into the challenge of changing the world?

 

 

Skywatch Friday

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Hey this week Friday actually comes on Friday! For those of you who have been following me you know this has been something aof a problem for me this summer.

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This is the parking lot of our church. The photo was taken at sunrise just before our last artist’s gathering in August. Below are some photos of our group art project from that day. The splatter paintings will be displayed at the Toy Town Fall Fest, the C.cada fall art show and at the Cloverton concert in November for which they were made.

A Photo A Week Challenge: In Memoriam

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This post is written in response to Nancy Merrill’s challenge: In Memoriam

http://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/a-photo-a-week-challenge-in-memoriam/

 

Grave of the very first Joseph E. Lillie

Grave of the very first Joseph E. Lillie

Death is Nothing at All

by Canon Henry Scott-Holland

Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away
into the next room.

I am I, and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
that we are still.

Call me by my old familiar name,
speak to me in the easy way
which you have always used to.
Put no difference in your tone,
wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was,
let it be spoken without effect,
without a trace of shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was;
there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval
somewhere very near,

just around the corner.

All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

 

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I so long to meet the great cloud of witnesses who long before I was born prayed that God would  save my soul!

Dust Kiddies Pt. 3

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Little Lamb! Little Lamb! Who hath made thee?

Little Lamb! Little Lamb! Who hath made thee?

This is part three of our sermon series Dust Kiddies. If you missed parts 1 and 2 they can be found at the links below.

https://josephelonlillie.com/2014/09/09/dust-kiddies-pt-1/

https://josephelonlillie.com/2014/09/10/dust-kiddies-pt-2/

Now let’s get on with today’s portion of the study:

We have established in the two previous posts that spiritually we are totally unable to help or save ourselves but that God wants to help us if we will just admit our need of Him.

God wants to help us in two ways. Today let’s discuss the first.

God  wants to help us overcome our weakness and our proclivity towards sin.

Dillon Burroughs writes, “The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.”

― Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

The truth is, that while your weakness may have defined who you are up to this present time it does not have to define you anymore.  The GOOD NEWS of Christianity is that we can be born again! We used to sing a song when I first became a Christian that went something like,

” There’s been a great great change since I’ve been born. There’s been a great great change since I’ve been born. There’s been a great great change since I’ve been born again.”

Jesus himself  said that the process of becoming a Christian is literally being “BORN AGAIN”

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again,[a] you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

4 “What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”

5 Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.[b] 6 Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.[c] 7 So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You[d] must be born again.’ John 3:3-7 NLT

In the end of the matter, we are set free from our lives of weakness not by trying harder but being born again and we are born again when the Spirit of God comes into our hearts by our prayerful invitation.

Let’s pray together now:

Father God I realize I cannot help myself or work my way out of a life of sin. Only you can help me. I admit that. So Lord come into my life right now. Cause me to be born again. Forgive all my sin and give me a new start a new life birthed by the Spirit of God. I believe it is possible through Jesus Christ, his death on the cross and his resurrection from the dead. Amen.

Hey if you prayed that prayer with me for the first time would you drop me a comment to let me know?