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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Weekly Writing Prompt #16: While They Slept
THE SECRET KEEPER has released our 16th writing prompt. This week our poetic forms are:
Haiku (5 – 7 – 5)
Tanka (5 – 7 – 5 – 7 – 7)
Shadorma (3 – 5 – 3 – 3 – 7 – 5)
six lines – no rhymes – multiple stanzas [your choice] – just follow meter
Nonet (9 – 8 – 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1) progression downward of syllables
Cinquain (2 – 4 – 6 – 8 – 2) five line poem on any theme with the earlier mentioned syllable pattern
Our buzz words are: | COMFORT | HEAD | SPACE | MELT | WICKED |
After you have read and made your comments on my Nonet please check out the other submissions at the underlined link above.
While They Slept
by JE Lillie
“Comfort! Comfort my people!” He said.
Space melted time and memory.
Spirits slumbered. Sleepy saints
Mistook the Living Head
For just another
Among wicked
Masses bent
To a
Cross.
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Fun Fotos: Doors & Windows Take 2
It being Christmas and all, Cee has opted to extend her DOORS AND WINDOWS CHALLENGE for another week. Please check out more doors and windows by clicking her link underlined above.
Here are my photos:
A doorway in Delft
More doors & windows in Delft
A door and windows in the ZaanDyke neighborhood.
Koog Zaan Dyke
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Sunday Quips & Quotes 12-20-15
Hey there folks! Here is a new challenge for all my Sunday readers. Every Sunday I will post one quip or quote that struck me during the week. You can join along in the quipping and quoting. Here is what to do:
Publish a post of your own, using one quip or quote that grabbed you during the week. You can add a picture to it if you like or even photograph the quote from it’s source.
Link back to my post
You can include the Pastor Wrinkle’s Q& Q photo in your post if you think my mug worthy of your blog.
Quote of the week:
“God takes life’s broken pieces and gives us unbroken peace.” Anon
“Remember Jesus left Heaven and went to the lowest place the soul could go to bring the highest number of souls back to Heaven with Him.” JE Lillie
Merry Christmas!
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Faraway: Cee’s B& W Challenge
This week Cee has asked us to show SOMETHING FARAWAY using Black & White Photography.
The faraway forest
Faraway Amsterdam
Mountains in the Distance
Now you can transport yourself to faraway places by clicking the underlined link above!
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Turn:Writing Prompt #15
This week THE SECRET KEEPER has given us five words to launch our poetry from. Those words are: | GHOST| ROUGH | DUST | STRANGE | TURN |.
I have chosen to use the “28”form for this work .
Turn
by JE Lillie
Rough ghosts of the past silence
Voices that would draw me on.
Strange that I should listen to
Dust rather than turn and change.
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Friday Fictioneers:Reflection
Friday Fictioneers time folks! The time of the week when 100+ authors share 100- words with the world. We base our stories on a photo prompt given by our A number one hostess Rochelle. Check out all the stories by following the little blue frog at THIS SITE.
Here is the prompt and my story is below that.
photo by: © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Reflection
by JE Lillie
The sun is setting again. She is at the sink doing dishes. I am at the table in my usual spot drinking coffee after dinner.
We are stuck, she and I, in this maddening loop ever since the day I sent him away. We eat dinner in silence. She does the dishes. I drink my coffee. She looks out the window. I catch the longing in her eyes turned outward. Then I see her glaring back at me in the window’s reflection. It echoes my own thoughts, suggests what we both think. I should have gone.
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The Thing About Spiritual Gifts Pt. 2
We are still in Romans 1:11 in our discussion through the book of Romans. If you have missed any of our conversations you can find them on THE ROAD THROUGH ROMANS PAGE.
Romans 1: 11 reads,
I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong—
The things about spiritual gifts is that they are spiritual. That may seem obvious, but for those of us in the western world when we think “gift” one of our first go-to thoughts is not “Oh I hope it’s a spiritual gift. I really like spiritual gifts.”
Some of my first thoughts when someone says they want to give me a gift are:
“How big is it?”
“How much did it cost?”
“Will it fit in my house?”
“Will I use it?”
I go to the functional. The useful. The practical aspects of the gift. Don’t you? Maybe you are more spiritual than I.
I seldom think.
“Will this gift make me a better person?”
“Will this gift make me a more effective Christian?”
“Will this gift help me to win people to Christ?”
“Will this gift help me to crucify the flesh?”
But the spiritual gifts are more important than any earthly gift could ever be.
The first spiritual gift we are given is salvation. The gift of eternal life. It comes when we put our faith in Jesus Christ and call Him Lord.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.- John 3:16
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9
It is this first spiritual gift that Paul spends a good deal of the next 15 chapters expounding on. I wonder though, is this the spiritual gift he wanted to impart? I am thinking it is not. I am thinking his letter imparts the spiritual gift of salvation quite well. I am thinking perhaps the letter is a foundation, a 101 class, for another spiritual gift he desired to impart to the Roman church. It is a gift he imparted to many other churches as he worked his way through Asia and into Europe.
In Acts 19 we read,
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when[a] you believed?”
They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?”
“John’s baptism,” they replied.
4 Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” 5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues[b] and prophesied. 7 There were about twelve men in all.
Could this “baptism in the Spirit” as it is called, with the evidence of speaking in tongues, have been the spiritual gift Paul wanted to impart to the Roman Church? If so what is it? What is it for?
I would love to hear your thoughts and we will explore more tomorrow.
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A Photo A Week Challenge: Religious Buildings
This one would seem to be right up my alley (being Pastor Wrinkles and all). But when Nancy asked us to offer just one photo of RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS, I got really stumped. I was stumped not because I couldn’t find any but because HOLY COW I HAVE A LOT OF PICTURES OF CHURCHES!!!!!!
See what churches others have posted at the underlined link above.
Here is the one I chose. It was really hard.
This is the Youth With A Mission Building (YWAM) in Amsterdam.
For more information on YWAM go to http://www.ywam.org/
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Thursday Doors: 12-17-15
I am joining Norm’s THURSDAY DOOR CHALLENGE this week. Click the underlined link to find doorways to other blogs.
Here is my doorway to Cashel:
I hope I get to visit again some day.
Lillie-Put 