Share Your World July 2, 2018

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Well it is Independence Week here in America and so schedules have been a little messed up. It may be the end of the week but there is still time for me TO SHARE MY WORLD.

Share Your World is the challenge where our hostess, Cee, asks several questions and we, her contributors, share our answers and share our worlds. Get it?

Well Cee’s questions and my answers are below. You can read those and then pop over to Cee’s blog using the underlined link and open yourself up to a world of sharing.

Tell us about your first bicycle or car?

My first bicycle was blue and it had those red and blue streamers in the handle bars and an orange warning flag for when I pedaled down the road. I wasn’t allowed to go out of sight of the house until I was in first grade so I am not sure what the orange flag was all about.

My first car was also blue. It was a Delta 78. It was so big I could lay out straight in the back seat for naps between classes at college. The power windows didn’t work and would fall down intermittently during drives and one of the door panels was loose and would just fall off sometimes when I opened the drivers door. Still I loved that car.

What fictional world or place would you like to visit?

I would love to visit Middle Earth. Specifically the house of Elrond in Rivendell.

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If you could have someone follow you around all the time, like a personal assistant, what would you have them do?

I would have them do all the administration for my job. I would have them do all my paperwork and keep my bills and tell me how much I could spend. I haaaaate all that stuff.

What did you appreciate or what made you smile this past week?  Feel free to use a quote, a photo, a story, or even a combination. 

I am just days away now from being a grandfather!

 

Morning Direction From Scripture 7-6-18

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I will praise God’s name in song
    and glorify him with thanksgiving.
31 This will please the Lord more than an ox,
    more than a bull with its horns and hooves.
32 The poor will see and be glad—
    you who seek God, may your hearts live!
33 The Lord hears the needy
    and does not despise his captive people. Psalm 69:30-33

At what moments in life do you feel most needy or captive?

We Desire God…But Addiction…

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“After twenty years of listening to the yearnings of people’s hearts, I am convinced that all human beings have an inborn desire for God. Whether we are consciously religious or not, this desire is our deepest longing….It gives us meaning….It is a hunger to love, to be loved, and to move closer to the Source of love…. But something gets in the way….Our desires are captured and we give ourselves over to things that, in our deepest honesty, we really do not want….Addiction…turns us away from love…..Addiction attaches desire, bonds, and enslaves the energy of desire to certain specific behaviors, things, or people….Addiction is the powerful psychic enemy of humanity’s desire for God.” Gerald May

Morning Direction From Scripture 7-3-18

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I will praise God’s name in song
    and glorify him with thanksgiving.
31 This will please the Lord more than an ox,
    more than a bull with its horns and hooves.
32 The poor will see and be glad—
    you who seek God, may your hearts live!
33 The Lord hears the needy
    and does not despise his captive people. Psalm 69:30-33

How does you being thankful to God help the poor to be glad?