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Share Your World 2014 Week 11

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This post was created for week 11 of Share Your World! Below is the link to the other week 11 share your world posts

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/17/share-your-world-2014-week-11/

share-your-world2Here are my thoughts on this week’s questions:

If you were an ice cream cone how many scoops and flavors would you be and why?

I think I would be one or two scoops of spumoni ice cream. Lots of layered flavor but not too much to handle.

Are you left or right-handed?

Right handed. Does that mean I am left brained?

Before making a phone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say?

Sometimes. It depends how important the call is. But I find many phone calls fall into a certain category so you can almost determine the direction of the call before you make it.

How many rings before you answer the phone?

In the office…one or two…At home usually three or four if I answer at all because I am usually nowhere near the phone. Many times at home I let it go to voice mail.

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

I am really grateful for the staff God has given me to work on. They are a great bunch of people full of talent and encouragement! This coming week I am looking forward to our staff meeting and to the meeting of the Winchendon Enhancement Committee. We are bringing in students from the local high school to discuss direction for the new makerspace being created in town.

A Jolly Book

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It is time for SYW once again and this week Cee has come up with four humdinger- homerun-questions (is triple hyphenation linguistically correct?). I especially love the new question she is giving us!

Describe yourself in a word that starts with the first letter of your name.

Jolly.

If 100 people your age were chosen at random, how many do you think you’d find leading a more satisfying life than yours?

Not very many. I feel like I am living out my purpose and while I have not accomplished everything I set out to I am on my way. I have learned more than half the fun is in the journey anyway.

If you were a tree, would you become a book or furniture? Please describe.

Oh most definitely a book. It would be a big book for sure and for certain, no short stories or poetry compilations please! Just a flat-out adventure that goes on and on until it comes at last to a satisfying end leaving room for a sequel.

You are trapped in an elevator, who would you want to be trapped with?

I am assuming we can choose more than one person; So I would choose to be trapped with a really good storyteller to while away the time with, an optimist to keep our spirits up. A pizza delivery guy who just happened to be delivering Hawaiian pizza to the 15th floor and of course an elevator repair man/ acrobat who can climb through the ceiling tile like you see in the movies to fix what’s broken.

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 God helped me to accomplish so much last week. Every week it just seems like the work expands along with the blessings. Here are some of the high lites from last week.

C.cada choir

C.cada choir

 

Special Touch Bowl-A-Thon

Special Touch Bowl-A-Thon

 

 

 

I am loving this discipleship class

I am loving this discipleship class

 

Hey go on over to Cee’s place and see what her other subscribers have said!

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/10/share-your-world-2014-week-10/

 

Spring Ahead

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We lost an hour this weekend. Did you notice? I did!

Me facing the effects of spring ahead.

Me facing the effects of spring ahead.

I started the weekend by meeting with one of my graduated interns (I have taken on at least one intern a year for the last seven years). He visited on Friday after his girlfriend(my current intern) ratted me out by telling him I haven’t been taking my days off. Truth be told who has time to take a day off when daylight savings time is almost over.

Evidently his visit effected me more deeply than I realized because on Saturday morning I woke up at 4 A.M.  It made me feel like this.

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But I did have to finish my sermon before choir practice. So I walked the dogs and then chopped at the keyboard until the sermon was finished.

By 8 I was at the church warming up. I’ve noticed that warm up has become more and more important as I age.

After  three hours of singing I was off to the Special Touch Bowl-A -Thon.

Bowlers at Special Touch

Bowlers at Special Touch

 

We raised $4400.00 for people with disabilities to go to summer camp. We have another Bowl-a-thon scheduled next week and our hope is to clear $10,000.00.

After that I visited some friends for a fellowship gathering. The sunset was lovely.

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At this point I was pretty tired. I was just sure I would sleep well. Four A.M. came and I was up (which was really three because we sprung ahead remember) once again. Sunday was two services…excellent services I might add but springing ahead has left me a bit unhinged.

So today I am taking my intern’s advice. It is almost eleven and I am still in my pajamas. I think I will watch TV and eat cookies. After all spring is here!

 

The Dream House

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It’s Share Your World time again!

share-your-world2This week Cee’s questions are all about our dream homes.

Would you prefer a reading nook or an art, craft, photography studio?

I want all three please.

Would you prefer the TV in the living room or another room?

I would keep the TV in the Living Room but if I had my druthers I would have a library that was fit for entertaining in just off the dining room

What color would you like your bedroom to be?

I like green a nice calm green. Oh wait I already have that.

Would you prefer a one floor house or multiple levels?

I would love to be on one floor with a sunken living room.

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 be working with a great team of people committed to creating an art center in our hometown. I am looking forward to this week’s meeting.

Check out Cee’s other subscriber’s dream home ideas at

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/03/share-your-world-2014-week-9/

Book Crawl

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I am so glad that as they have grown my children have gained an appreciation for books.

This year as a Christmas gift I gave my girls a book crawl and this weekend was the weekend for it.

Friday night I picked up James, my daughter Melanie’s fiancé in CT and brought him back to MA.

We met at my ex-wife’s house for dinner and to make plans for the wedding. Once my oldest daughter got home from work we headed to my house for a long winter’s nap before our Saturday drive.

On Saturday morning we left Winchendon at 8:30 A.M. and headed South.

Our first stop was Tatnuck Booksellers in Westbourough. I found a comfortable chair and opened my Kindle to read while the kids poked around.

They found nothing at bookstore number 1 but at bookstore number 2 in Worcester we hit pay dirt.

James at Annie's Bookstore

James at Annie’s Bookstore

Melanie in YA section at Annie's

Melanie in YA section at Annie’s

Amanda is a quick shopper. Melanie and James are consummate browsers. After two hours Amanda had a bag full of books and Melanie and James were still weighing their options. So I took Amanda on a walk back into childhood.

Me and Amanda reading Dr. Seuss.

Me and Amanda reading Dr. Seuss.

By the time we finished we were all famished. I was truly ready for a cup of coffee

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Then it was on to Niantic CT for a crawl through the Book Barn.

Amanda at the Book Barn

Amanda at the Book Barn

James and Melanie

James and Melanie

Since James and Melanie both had to be back at their respective churches for ministry on Sunday morning we wrapped it up at the Book Barn and then I dropped James back off in Oakdale CT (he is a children’s minister in Norwich CT) and then we shot up to Haverhill MA for Melanie’s house (she is a children’s minster in Saugus MA). Amanda and I got in just before 11 and settled in for a good night’s rest before our ministry calls at Cornerstone (Amanda does children’s ministry at Cornerstone and I had to lead worship)

It was a great 14 hour day. One old wrinkly minister and three young eager ministers now each have ten more books to read!

Peanut Butter Cups and Raindrops

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This post is inspired by Cee from Oregon who hosts “Share Your World”. I have not posted in SYW these last few weeks because of the way my schedule has fallen; But when I read this week’s questions I just couldn’t resist sectioning off a bit of my time so I could answer peanut butter cup- in- cheek so to speak. I  beg Cee’s indulgence as I am going to answer her questions out-of-order. Truly sorry.   🙂

The questions originally read as posted below but I am going to answer them in the following order respectively 2,1,3 and 4.

Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers?

When you’re 90 years old, what will matter most to you?

Candy factories of the entire world have become one and will now be making only one kind of candy. Which kind, if you were calling the shots?

So, you’re on your way out and it’s raining. Do you know where your umbrella is or do you frantically search for it all over your apartment/house?

When I am 90 years old the weather will be the most important aspect of my life. Aside from the fact that inclement weather will affect my lumbago, I fully intend by that time the candy industry will have used the $100,000.00 I donate anonymously (you heard it here first folks) to create the first ever peanut butter cup rain machine. the result of course will be that since peanut butter cups are now freely falling from the sky the factories will no longer have to produce chocolate of any kind, and therefore can turn their profit-making ventures toward making Boston fruit slices, which everyone knows is the second best candy after peanut butter cups. As to my umbrella… I now leave it outside turned upside down on the front lawn in anticipation of the next PBC monsoon.

To read Cee’s other contributors please jump to this site:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/02/24/share-your-world-2014-week-8/