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Share Your World 2016 Week #21

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Well it has been a few weeks since I have had the time to swing by Cee’s place and take part in a share your world challenge. Last week I was on vacation. I wasn’t able to get to a computer to post but I did keep up with some of the other “Share your worlders” via my smart phone. Anyway this is the place where I share some of my world with all y’all. Have a read through and then click the link below to see other people’s shares.

What is your favorite go to beverage?  Water, coffee, tea, coke, soda (non-alcoholic)

I would have to say coffee but not right now because I am temporarily off the java. So right now my go to beverage is lemon ginger tea.

Can you change a car tire?

Yes I can but I would rather call Triple A

Are you a listener or talker?

I like to listen to people but sometimes I just can’t keep the trap shut. Usually that is not a good thing.

Would you rather have no internet or no cell phone?

Can you even have a cell phone anymore without internet? I think I use the internet on my phone more than my actual cell phone.

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 I got to take a five day break and that I got to see my daughter on her birthday. This week I am looking forward to our monthly concert at the Lifeskills program.

NOW CHECK OUT MORE SHARE YOUR WORLD POSTS HERE

Share Your World 2016 Week #20

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It’s time to get my sharing of the world done today as the rest of the week is filling up fast.

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I have been doing this challenge since shortly after I started blogging and it is one of the activities I hate to miss. Share Your World has been a wonderful way to get to know people across the blogosphere. In fact I met many of my current followers through this forum.

Let me encourage you, if you are new to blogging or even thinking of trying it, add Cee’s five questions to your weekly regimen.

Now here are the five questions of the week and my answers:

When do you feel most connected with others?

Oh my! This is a hard question there are so many wonderful connections life has afforded me: Sunday service, church growth groups, family activities, music and arts groups, blogging….I think though I would have to say I feel most connected when I am in the small group setting at church. It is there that many of my really deep conversations can begin.

What daily habit would you like to introduce to your life?

Oh that is easy. I need to start playing the guitar to get ready for summer camp.

What one mini-little-adventure would you like to have in the coming week?

I am looking forward to going to the movies to see XMEN Apocalypse and Alice Through the Looking Glass. I might make it a double header. I haven’t done that in thirty years or so.

List  things or events that changed your Life: It could be as simple as a book or meeting a certain person?

Meeting Jesus

Being called into the ministry at a worship concert

Getting married

Going to Bible college

Entering Ministry

Having children

Getting divorced

Writing a book

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 our Pentecost services were well attended and people were baptized in the Holy Spirit. I am looking forward to going to our Network Council next week (I don’t imagine I will be sharing my world again until I have returned from that). 

Now see how everyone else answered by clicking here!

 

Share Your World 2016 Week 19

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It is hard to believe that in just another month or so we will be half way through 2016!

That still gives us lots of time to SHARE OUR WORLDS THIS YEAR.

This week Cee has given us five fun and challenging questions to spring board off from into the great pool of sharing. You can click the link above to see what others shared. Here are Cee’s question and my answers.

You win a pet monkey but this isn’t just any old monkey. It can do one trick for you whenever you want from getting a pop out of the fridge to washing your hair. What would be the trick?

My monkey can totally fix anything that is broken. He is a very smart monkey and he is starting with the lights in my kitchen. All right…all right I will hire a certified electrician. Sheesh!

What caring thing are you going to do for yourself today?

I took a thirty minute walk and a nap. I am trying to make sure I fit those two things into my schedule everyday no matter how busy I am.

What color do you feel most comfortable wearing?

I like black. I hear it’s slimming.

Complete this sentence:  When I travel I love to…. 

go at a nice relaxed pace. I hate going on journeys that are full of rushing and stress. In my  mind there is nothing worse than going on a vacation and coming back to work more stressed out than when you left.

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 my sister got off to The Netherlands and arrived safely. She made a friend at the farm she is going to be living on.

This week I am looking forward to getting some of the brush burned in my back yard.

 

Share Your World 2016 Week 18

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Yep! It is that time of the week again, the time when Cee asks us five questions and we share our world’s with readers by answering them!

You can find a whole world of answers by clicking HERE.

Before you click there though check out my answers to Cee’s questions below.

Who was your best friend in elementary school?

I had two best friends in elementary school: Steve Shepherd and Steve Courtemanche. We all lived around the corner from each other and would play just about every afternoon on the steep hill behind Steve C’s house.

What things could people do for you on a really bad day that would really help you?

On my worst days the prayers of people have touched me the most.

If you could make a 15 second speech to the entire world, what would you say?

Jesus is the only Savior of the world. He loves you and wants to help you. Let Him in through prayer.

Would you rather be an amazing dancer or an amazing singer?

Oh, I love being able to sing. It is a wonderful gift and I wouldn’t give it up for anything. That said I would love it if I could actually move to a rhythm without looking like one of the Barba Poppas

 

 

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 to God for helping my sister get back to her mission in the Netherlands!

This week I am looking forward to having some time to get the office she was using for the last 20 months set in order and getting some of my paperwork out of my bedroom back in to its proper place.

 

Share Your World 2016 Week 17

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Blogging has taught me that writing is really about two things: words and relationships, not necessarily in that order.

For that reason SHARE YOUR WORLD has become one of my favorite posts to write. It is an opportunity every week to answer five simple questions using the written word and to connect those words to people around the world.

You can discover more about sharing your world by traveling to CEE’S SITE USING THIS LINK.

Here are this week’s SHARE YOUR WORLD questions and my answers:

When writing by hand do you prefer to use a pencil or pen? 

I almost always use pen. I find pencil smudges and fades too quickly for my taste. I like a sense of permanency. That said my friend Jody is always after me about how I write on my sheet music in pen. It makes him sort of crazy because in his opinion music should only ever be written 0n in pencil.

What’s your choice: jigsaw, word, maze or numeric puzzles?

Oh I am so bad at puzzles! I get so impatient with them. My mother loves crossword puzzles and does one everyday. Sometimes I help her with words but I don’t think I would have the patience to do a whole puzzle of any kind by myself.

Do you prefer long hair or short hair for yourself? 

Short hair is my choice. My hair tends to get puffy and now that I am losing more off the top,letting it grow long makes me look just weird.

List five some of your favorite blogs.

This is a really hard question. I have so many favs. But here are five I frequent on a very regular basis:

Cee’s Photography

Another Red Letter Day

Jennifer Nichole Wells

Becoming the Oil and the Wine

Artist Day Apart

 

 

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 I had the opportunity to preach on Sunday morning at Cornerstone Church. This week has been really busy and I haven’t even had time to post the transcripts of that sermon but it was so much fun to preach.

I am looking forward to a night off tonight (last one for a while). I think I will go to the movies. I might see this

Share Your World 2016 Week 16

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It’s past time for this post this week, but then my whole world is going a little slower this week as I am adjusting to the pace of this cold or severe allergy or whatever it is. My head is full, my eyes are watering and I have gone through several boxes of Kleenex. How’s that for a share? 😦

But enough of that. It’s time to answer Cee’s wonderful questions this week.

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Here are the questions and my answers

If you had to have your vision corrected would you rather: glasses or contacts?  Or what do you use if you need to have your vision corrected?

I use glasses. I cannot stand the thought of touching my eye to put in a contact lens.

If you had to describe your day as a traffic sign, what would it be?

Stop!

Was school easy or difficult for you? How so?

School itself was easy (except for geometry). I loved the learning process and I loved being in class. The hardest part of school was gym. I was a nerd and a klutz. It made me everyone’s last choice on a team. Have you seen Diary of A Wimpy Kid? I still cringe when I watch it.

Would you rather take a 1 or 2 week vaction with an organized tour or take a cruise of your choice?

I love a two week vacation. I loved the trip my daughter and I took to Ireland. We had our rest stops planned and suggested sites to see, but the days were ours to plan and the pace was ours to keep. We tracked alongside some of the bus tours. Oh my gosh! I think the pace of  a bus tour would have killed me. I work too hard to have to rush through a vacation.

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

I am grateful I got to go out with my daughter for her 26th birthday last night. This week I am looking forward to getting over this cold or allergies or whatever it is.

 

 

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Amanda at the Old Mill

 

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Share Your World 2016 Week 15

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It’s time to share my world again. In fact it is time for all of us to share our world a little bit, because sharing is better than hoarding…or something like that.

Anyway, Cee is asking us five new questions. My answers are below. The answers of all her other contributors can be found HERE.

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Name one thing not many people know about you.

Hmm one thing people don’t know about me… My favorite superhero is The Vision.

If a distant uncle dies and you were always his favorite and leaves you $50,000 (any currency) in his will, what would you do?

Currently I would tithe off the top (10%) and then I would use the rest to finish fixing the house and then I would visit my son in South Korea.

Where do you hide junk when people come over?

We don’t hide it. If people can’t handle a little junk they shouldn’t visit. That said I am trying to do a better job of cleaning the house lately.

Complete this sentence:  I want to learn more about …

…hearing the voice of God.

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

I am grateful for the beginning of Boiler Room Prayer at our church. We had about 12 people come out for the first night and we all noticed a real affect on our services the following morning.

This week I am looking forward to getting a lot of my office work caught up.

Share Your World 2016 Week #14

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I am kicking off my writing week with SHARE YOUR WORLD 2016. In this challenge our hostess Cee asks us five questions and in answering we share our worlds with each other. You can click the underlined link to see all the contributions to the challenge.

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Here are the questions for the week and my answers:

If you could hire someone to help you, would it be with cleaning, cooking, or yard work?

I actually am in the process of hiring someone right now to help me with several projects around the house. It’s not yard work exactly but the old place needs a new front porch and new gutters. The chimney needs to be relined and reappointed. The whole place needs a fresh coat of paint and the masonry on our stone porch needs some help. Can you say home equity loan?

What makes you laugh the most?

I think lunch time with the church staff is the most hilarious time of day for me. We all work under such high stress levels that lunch time becomes the time of day we can really cut loose and release the tension.

You are probably thinking that a church job should not be stressful; After all, pastors only work one day a week, right? Well that is not really so, particularly in this cultural climate. People are hurting and in need and daily we deal with some pretty emotionally difficult situations. Being able to laugh keeps us going.

A merry heart does good, like medicine,
But a broken spirit dries the bones. Prov. 17:22

What was your favorite food when you were a child?

Macaroni & Cheese with hot dogs.

List at least five favorite flowers or plants.

Wisteria

Lavender

lilac

lemon balm

lavender

sea rose

I could go on but these five will do.

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

I am grateful to have had the privilege to perform my cousin’s wedding last week.Weddings usually make me so nervous but I was actually pretty relaxed through this one.

This week is going to be a little nuts. With the winter storm last night I lost a rehearsal for one of my concerts this week and the week was already tight as it was. I am looking forward to Sunday afternoon and the week being done.