Share Your World 2016 Week 17

Posted on April 29, 2016 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

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

Weekly Smile #16

Posted on April 22, 2016 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

This post is in response to TRENT’S WEEKLY SMILE CHALLENGE.

Weekly Smile #WeeklySmile

The idea is that every week everyone can find at least one thing that makes them smile.

This week was my daughter’s 26th birthday. This girl has brought so much joy and pride to my life. Amanda is a great overcomer and I am so glad to be called her Dad.

Share Your World 2016 Week 16

Posted on April 21, 2016 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

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.

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.

Amanda at the Old Mill

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Share Your World 2016 Week #14

Posted on April 5, 2016 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

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.

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

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.

My Next Group Of Ties

Posted on April 4, 2016 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

You may remember that one of my New Year’s resolutions was that I would wear every tie I own at least once before the end of the year. Here is the next batch of ties I have dispensed with.

Only 21 left to go!

Weekly Smile #13

Posted on March 30, 2016 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

Weekly Smile #WeeklySmile

It is time once again for a weekly smile with Trent. If you have never read the weekly smile go to Trent’s blog HERE.

This week my smile is from Saturday. Our church hosted an Easter Egg Hunt and we had about 350 people come out to it. Fully half of those folks were from the surrounding communities. It was a great day of building community.

Share Your World 2016 Week 13

Posted on March 29, 2016 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

Can you even believe we are 13 weeks into 2016? We have officially begun the second quarter of the year. Soon we will be half done!

We still have loads of questions to answer though before this year breathes its last. Every week from here until 2017 Cee will ask us 5 questions. In answering them we, Cee’s contributors, are sharing our world.

Here are this week’s questions and my answers.

Are you left or right handed?

I am right hand dominant, but playing piano has strengthened the coordination in my left hand a bit.

If you had only one TV, would you prefer the TV in the living room or another room?

I do have only one TV currently and it is in the living room.

Have you ever participated in a distance walking, swimming, running, or biking event? Tell your story.

I once did a walk-a-thon for a ministry called Speed-The Light. That is a ministry which buys vehicles or equipment of any kind to help missionaries do their jobs. That is the closest I have ever come to what you would call long distance, and I don’t even really know how far I walked. I did laps around a track for about five hours.

Complete this sentence: Love is… .

patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹²For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. I Corinthians 13:4-13

OK it may not be original but it is accurate.

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 for a wonderful Easter weekend. Here are some photos from our various events….