Share Your World 2015 Week #22

Posted on June 2, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

This week I feel the need to start this post with Cee’s fifth question which is always…

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 serve a God who walks with His church through the deepest valleys (we have had some deep one’s this week read about it HERE ). No matter what we go through we always find Him not just waiting at the other side but walking with us through the fiery trial. God is so good and so faithful and He is an “ever-present help IN trouble.” Psalm 46:1

This week coming I am looking forward to getting back on track with my blogging and writing schedule. During the last month or so I have been rather spotty because of the pace of life and ministry. But I feel like I am getting on top of that and launching into a new phase of writing productivity!

Here I am, beginning that new phase by sharing my world and inviting you to share your world with others by clicking the icon above and flying over to Cee’s blog to read about other parts of the world that intersect there.

Here are the questions:

Complete this sentence: Never In My Life Have I….

Never In my life have I been to Africa or Australia or New Zealand or Alaska or Asia or…. well that should keep me going for however long I am to remain on this spinning orb of life.

Complete this sentence: My neighbour wants me to help her…..

My neighbor wants me to help her… Actually I do not think my neighbors want me to help them do anything. I live in the midst of a pretty huge DIY neighborhood and I seem to be the only one who cannot do most things himself.

Complete this sentence: When I was little I wanted…

When I was little I wanted to be a superhero. I would spend hours pretending I was Superman, Green Lantern or the Flash. I have learned though that being heroic is not about the grand sweeping gestures. It is about the commitment to walk a path of little faithfulnesses everyday. Without that commitment, no superpower no matter how awesome will make you a hero.

Complete this sentence: Will you come here to…

Will you come here on a regular basis? If so I commit to doing everything in my power to introduce you to a world of encouragement, hope and light!

The sun glowing

The underside of the clock on the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft

Please click the Share Your World icon at the top of the post and it will take you to Cee’s blog so you see other people’s shares.

Share Your World 2015 Week 21

Posted on May 26, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

Last week was absolutely massive! With our Fellowship Network Council Sunday through Tuesday, teaching on Wednesday and speaking engagements Friday and Sunday, add in a wedding, visitations and pastoral appointments and I come to this Memorial day pretty knackered but very happy to be participating in week 21 of Share Your World! Check out how others spent their weeks by clicking the icon above and going to Cee’s site.

Our hostess addressed the questions a little differently this week. Cee says :

I came up with a new way of doing Share Your World for this Week. Begin making four lists and have at least four items on each list. You can choose your lists out of the ones I have listed below. Have fun.

Favorite Songs
Favorite flowers or plants
Favorites types of tea
Favorite types of animals
List of favorite blogs
Stuff that makes you laugh
Movies to cheer you up
Favorite actors/actresses
Good restaurants to eat at
Best desserts
Games to play with friends
Fun things for a rainy day
Books I want to read
Things I want to have in my home (paintings, hot tubs, book cases, big screen tv etc)
Places worth shopping

Favorite types of tea:

We were actually discussing this just this evening. Summer is upon us and most of my family switches over to ice coffee in the heat but I just can’t do it. Coffee should be hot! But I can do iced tea. I especially like herbal sun teas. My favorites are:

Lemon Balm or Lemon Grass

Mint

Lavender (although you should not drink this very often as lavender can become toxic in the body)

And Chamomile

List of favorite blogs:

This is a really hard one. I read so many blogs and each for different reasons. I will pick four this week and if we ever do it this way again I will pick four more. I suppose I could just list them all but that would be a veeeeeeerrrrry long list.

I love Cee’s Photo Blog. I participate in so many of her challenges and they do really challenge me.

One of my favorite haunts in the blogosphere is Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Addicted To Purple. I especially love her Friday Fictioneers segments.

For devotional reading two of my favorites are Another Red Letter Day and Tom Raines, Affirmations of God.

My favorite dessert:

I love a homemade cheese cake anytime.

And in the fall there is nothing like pumpkin roll.

One of my all time summer favorites is Orange fluff

And at Christmas, Shtollen or fruit cake!

Movies that cheer me up. 🙂

I love movies that inspire heroism and teamwork. I also have a thing for superhero movies.

I loved Avengers: Age of Ultron. When the Scarlet Witch made her choice to be part of the team and to help Hawkeye, I shed a tear.

I laughed a lot through Guardians of the Galaxy. “We are Groot!”

Sahara doesn’t qualify as a superhero flick exactly but what a rollicking ride that was

And I think National Treasure has to make this week’s list.

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 so many wonderful opportunities to preach and teach last week. I am also grateful for the many wonderful connections I made at Network Council. This week I hope to get some time to work on the gardens and to start my next writing project in earnest.

Share Your World 2015 Week 20

Posted on May 20, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

Hey folks! Here we are at Share Your World once again. Do you realize we have shared over 1/3 of 2015 with each other already? Time flies when you are having fun! If you click the icon above it will take you to our hostess Cee’s site and from there you can have your world enlarged by entering into the community of sharing she provides.

Here are this week’s questions and my answers.

What is the most important thing that you ever learned? (I bet it’s not something you learned in school)

The most important thing I ever learned was, that God so loved the world ( and me) that he gave his only son, Jesus Christ, as a sacrifice for my sins ( and the whole world’s sins) so that if I would believe in Him I would not perish but have everlasting life ( and that also goes for every other man woman and child on the face of the planet). Every other lesson in life is defined by what we do with that truth.

What feeds your enthusiasm for life?

9But if I say, “I will not mention his word

or speak anymore in his name,”

his word is in my heart like a fire,

a fire shut up in my bones.

I am weary of holding it in;

indeed, I cannot. Jer. 20:9

https://youtu.be/5pwbDo1ef9M

What’s your most memorable (good or bad) airplane commercial or private flight?

The first time I visited my sister in The Netherlands I flew Iceland air into Keflavik. Our lay over was about two hours and I remember looking out at the beauty of Iceland and thinking that someday I would return to explore this place that looked a bit like the moon to me.

If you were a great explorer, what would you explore?

Iceland.

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 the wonderful Network Council I just came from. I am looking forward to teaching my class in the Minor Prophets tonight and preaching on Sunday morning a message called “For God and Country.”

Caddo’s Seven Word Sunday 5-10-15

Posted on May 10, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

SPENDING TIME WITH THE BOY IS GOOD!

: Joe at the waterfall

: Familial Connection

Share Your World 2015 Week 18

Posted on May 8, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

I haven’t had much time for blogging lately and my brain is a little numb from the work load. I am thankful for challenges like Cee’s that help me focus in and keep a foot in the blogging community during these busy seasons.

Hey! why don’t you support Cee and her other contributors by taking a jaunt over to her page after you are done here and reading some other share your world blogs. All you have to do is click the “Share Your World” icon above and it will magically take you to this week’s STW post.

Here are the questions and my answers:

What type of pets do you have or want? Or do you not want pets?

I have two little Maltese dogs. Mercedes, the female, is about six and a half pounds. Jacopo, the male, is about nine pounds. Their son, Snug is also currently living with us as my sister itinerates for her mission throughout New York and New England. He is eleven pounds.

Hot Raggamuffin

What was or is your favorite cartoon?

I love the Spider Friends and Xmen

When you’re alone at home, do you wear shoes, socks, slippers, or go barefoot?

Usually socks.

Are you a traveler or a homebody?

I love to travel but I am really a homebody because of my schedule. Work keeps me from going far afield unless I have a clearly spelled out purpose to hit the road.

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 that one of my hands is feeling almost normal again. My right hand is just a little tight now. Thank goodness! Tendonitis is a pain in the thumb!

This next week I am looking forward to travelling down to PA for my son’s graduation from his master’s program in TESoL (Teaching English as a Second Language). I imagine I am coming back with a van load of stuff he will store when he goes over seas to work (that’s his dream anyway).

Share Your World 2015 Week#11

Posted on March 18, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

GREAT GUGGAMUGGA! This week’s sharing questions 1 and 3 are really hard! You can find how other people responded at

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/03/16/share-your-world-2015-week-11/

Here are the questions and my answers

List 2 things you have to be happy about?

2 things I have to be happy about? Is it like I am forced to be happy about these things even though I really don’t want to be? Is the reason I have to be happy about them because everyone else is happy about them and I don’t want to be the odd man out? Or is the reason I have to be happy about them because I can’t do anything to change them. so being happy is just a way of moving on and not getting stuck in bitterness? Or is my forced happiness because what has happened is really a good thing but it makes me sad?

I’m sorry what was the question?

Do you prefer ketchup or mustard or mayonnaise?

Deep breath of relief that question 1 is answered (or not)! Mayo all the way. I am not a big ketchup fan

If you were to paint a picture of your childhood, what colors would you use?

I had to stop and think what the picture would actually look like for this one. Is it a moment in time? Or is it a collage of events all smashed together on one canvas? I think it has to be a collage. The center is a brown wooden cross surrounded by smatterings of red and white. In the upper left hand corner is a portrait of a much younger me standing at a brown podium in a white polyester suit with one blue button, one orange button and one red button giving a Memorial Day Speech in fifth grade. The upper right hand corner is dark maybe pen and ink and shows me being bullied in gym class. The lower left hand has two scenes blended together One half is a room with brown pine paneling the other is stark white rustic camp walls. I am seated with my family in both pictures enjoying dinner. The lower right hand corner is me standing in the middle of a choir in a pink sanctuary singing.

Do you prefer a bath or shower?

Another deep sigh of relief. Question 3 took a lot of thinking muscle. I like a shower. However when I travel I always take a really hot bath and if the place I am staying has one a hot tub!

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 I got to preach twice last week. The titles of the messages I shared were: Whose Vision Are You and Complete Worship. This week I have the opportunity to bring communion out to our local Visiting Nurses Dayhab and on Saturday we have C.cada!

Share Your World Week#10

Posted on March 11, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

Wow! What a perfectly massive weekend it was! I had hoped to get a few extra posts written this weekend in between events and well that just didn’t happen. I am glad to be here at the start of week#10 sharing my world with Cee once again and of course all of you readers!

You can see how others chose to share their worlds or learn how to share your own world at

Share Your World – 2015 Week #10

Now here are the five sharing questions for the week and my answers

When you lose electricity in a storm, do you light the candles or turn on the flashlight? How many of each do you own?

We have flashlights on each floor and candles in just about every room as well as hurricane lamps in the living room filled with oil. But we do not generally lose power in our neck of the woods.

You are given $5,000 and the chance to exchange it for one of two envelopes. One envelope contains $50,000 and one contains $500. Do you make the trade? Why or why not?

Sure I would make the trade. A fifty-fifty chance at $50,000.00 would be enough for me to risk trading $5,000.00 for $500.00 And 500.00 is nothing to sneeze at.

What’s your first memory?

I have lots of early memories. I remember one-armed Joe who helped my father in the kitchen at the college in Vermont where dad worked. He used to play soccer with me. I remember my first nightmare of a giant man in a Hawaiian shirt falling out of the wall into my bed to squash me. I remember staring into the blue gazing ball on my grandmother’s front lawn while gramma hung clothes on the green clothes line. I remember my cousin’s parents owned this old school bus. I remember my sister and I locked ourselves inside the bathroom on the bus and could not get out.Uncle Tom had to rescue us.

What do you do if you can’t sleep at night? Do you count sheep, toss and turn, or get up and try to do something?

I generally pray. It puts me in a peaceful mind and I can fall back to sleep.

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

I am glad I was able to get everything done through this last weekend. Even one of my projects is off to the publisher. I am looking forward to preaching in church this Sunday!

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