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Share Your World 2013 Week 45
Oh boy! This week Cee has given us some questions I can really sink my keyboard into! After you are done here go on over to Cee’s place and take a gander at what her other subscribers have said. Better yet try answering the questions for yourself!
http://ceenphotography.com/2013/12/16/1391/
This week’s questions:
What was the most important event in your life last week?
I think the most important event of my life last week was the launch meeting of New England’s first Special Touch Chapter. We have chosen the name Special Touch R.E.A.C.H. (Respecting Everyone’s Ability to Choose Hope) for our group. We had 39 people out to our first annual Christmas party ministering to the disabled. Considering the day, that threatened a foot of snow I would say that shows great support for this work! If you are interested in learning more about Special Touch check out their website here!
Who was your favorite singer or music group in high school?
I loved David Meece. I think “We Are the reason” was one of my favorite songs.
Name the foreign countries you’ve been to.
I spent some time ministering in England in 1997 and then in Mexico in 2004.
I am not sure Canada counts. Although, my pastor who is Canadian needs a green card to minister in the States so I guess it does. I have been to Canada.
Since my sister lives there I have visited The Netherlands twice and while crossing over the Pond I stopped in Iceland and Ireland.
I hope to take my daughter for a vacation to Ireland after she graduates college.
Does your first or middle name have any significance (or were you named after another family member)?
My first name is Joseph and my middle name is Elon (pronounced EEE- lawn). I am the fifth in line with that name (my son is the sixth) and the name Elon goes back, in my family, at least seven generations to just after the Revolution.
I used to hate the name. Even the principal of my High School misread it at graduation and announced me as Joseph Ellen Lillie. After I did a word search on it, though, I grew into it a little bit. The names together mean “He shall add strength”.
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Caddo’s Seven Word Sunday 12-15-13
Plans Made With the Lord Will Succeed!
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Share Your World 2013 Week-44
Cee is changing things up a bit this week. Instead of giving us four short essay questions she is handing us 10…count’em 10… “would you rather” questions; And here they are!
WOULD YOU RATHER:
- Always have the sun in your eyes, while driving no matter where you go -OR-have to use your heater, full blast, in the summer and AC, full blast in the winter (also while driving)? This is not even a contest. Who wants to use heat in the summer and AC in the winter? I am not a big AC guy even in the summer, but I desparately need my heat in the winter. My toes, and my nose are the weakest parts of my body and once they are frozen it takes me weeks to warm up. I choose the sun in my eyes!
- Be able to go forward in time on 3 different occasions in your life – OR- go back in time once? This is a really good question! Since I am pretty sure that I could not change my past even if I went back into it, I think it’s best if I let the past just fade into gray. Going into the future though, now there lie some interesting considerations. I think the future is a little more fluid than the past and perhaps by knowing I might be able to better inform the choices I make today. So I choose to go forward into the future!
- Be considered annoying -OR- boring? Boring is seldom effective in any circles. At least annoying has the potential of getting something done. Annoying it is!
- Be the last-ranked person in an accelerated high school class -OR- the first-ranked person in a decelerated high school class? Being the least of the best is better than being the best of the worst, I guess. So last in an accelerated class is my choice.
- Drive 100 miles on a freeway with speed bumps every ½ mile -OR- drive 100 miles on a freeway that is completely covered with those little reflective lane dividers? I choose the little reflectors. At least they can be avoided.
- Find out the house you just bought sits on top of an earthquake fault -OR- an top of an old burial ground? Since I fear earthquakes far more than the departed I would choose the burial ground. Still I think it would be terrible to find out after the fact.
- Have an itch in the middle of your back at all times -OR- an eyelash in your eye all the time? I am an eye freak. I hate having anything in my eye. An itch I could handle… an eyelash in my eye …I think I would probably have to be committed.
- Have your picture be on the one dollar bill – OR – on the cover of every magazine and newspaper once? As long as the reason I am on the magazine covers is positive (like I saved the world or something) I would choose that.
- Never again be able to make a right-had turn while driving -OR- never again be able to go more than 3 blocks straight in a row while driving in your town? Oh! I have actually had this one happen to me!The downtown section of one of the cities I lived in became all one way for about 10 years You could only turn left! REALLY ANNOYING!!! Now, since most of the Massachusetts road system is built on a twisty curve idea (no North/ South/ East West grids in this state) I lost the ability to drive straight for more than a half mile long ago anyway; I embrace the 3 blocks idea.
- See everything in slow-motion -OR- see everything at double speed? I think once I got used to seeing in slow motion and stopped anticipating everything I would enjoy it more than double speed. I know at my current pace there is much I am missing along the way. Here is the link to discover what Cee’s other subscriber’s said in regards to these very fine questions. http://ceenphotography.com/2013/12/09/share-your-world-2013-week-44-would-you-rather/
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Caddo’s Seven Word Sundays 12-7-13
WALK THE PATH GOD CHOSE FOR YOU!
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Share You World 2013 Week 43
Well here we are, another week gone and creeping aggressively towards 2014! I loved Cee’s questions this week. I think I might even add a few pictures with my answers. Hey while your here why don’t you go on over to Cee’s page and see what she and our other friends have to say!
http://ceenphotography.com/2013/12/02/share-your-world-2013-week-43/
Do you prefer to receive gifts or give them?
the best gift. Ice cream with the kiddos
I am not much of a gift person really. I love to sit with people over a good meal and then perhaps a movie. When I receive gifts or give them I like them to be gifts that can be used up. I am a great lover of the gift card.
If you could be given ANY gift what would it be?
A sweet memory to mark eternity.
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- Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers Sweet memory 2
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- Artists working together sweet memory 3
If you had a shelf for your three most special possessions (not including photos, people or animals), what would you put on it?
The Bible, My favorite music book and a pen and journal set.
Would you spend the weekend in an abandoned house in the forest?
Sure as long as I had some help to start the fires and catch the food ( I am assuming that the house does not come stocked). It would need to be a step up from this place though.
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Caddo’s Seven Word Sunday 12-1-13
‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA
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Share Your World 2013 Week 42
This seems to be the week of the reblog. I have found so many great thoughts encased in the blogs I have been reading i just had to share them with you. Most recently I shared a reblog from “Bread For the Bride.” You have to check this one out. It is so good! http://breadforthebride.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/reblog-and-the-bride-wore-scars/
And after you have done that check out Cee’s subscribers and all the great answers they gave to this weeks “Share” questions at http://ceenphotography.com/2013/11/25/share-your-world-2013-week-42/
Here are my answers to Cee’s awesome questions.
If you were the original designer of one existing corporate logo, which one would you select?
I would choose the Veggie Tales logo. I love these guys. Have you heard them?
If you could have your own TV channel, what would it be about?
I would probably choose a preaching and prophecy channel. The truth about the future laid out in the Bible is far stranger than fiction.
If you were on an small island, who would you want to be with? And where is it? How big is it?
My small island: would need to be somewhere where there are pleasant rains and no typhoons; Warm water but no sharks; Plenty to eat and no poisonous snakes. I am assuming I am not stuck on the island and could come and go at my pleasure. So I would like to be alone on the island for a prayer get-away. I guess that is not really alone but it would be away from other human contact.
At what age did you become an adult?
I was just talking about this with friends at my birthday party the other day. I said good bye to my childhood at age 35. I am not sure why I felt that way at 35 but that was the year I realized I was no more a kid.
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Caddo’s Seven Word Sunday’s 11-24-13
God considers us according to our repentance.
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Share Your World 2013 Week 41
Oh boy! This week’s Share Your World quiz has some really challenging questions. I had to put on my extra heavy duty thinking cap for this one. 
that’s not me wearing the hat but you get the idea!
Take a gander at how Cee and her other subscribers answered these question by going to http://ceenphotography.com/2013/11/18/share-your-world-2013-week-41/
Now on to the questions!
If you could have three wishes granted, what would they be?
If I could have three wishes granted they would probably all be tied to the same desire:
1. That I would be graced with the ability to convince everyone I meet with the truth that Jesus Christ is God and that the only way to Heaven is through His forgiveness of sin.
2. That everyone in my sphere of influence would come to KNOW Jesus as personal Lord and Savior of their lives to the end that they would all be granted eternal life.
3. That I would have unlimited resources to equip others to influence their bits of the world for Jesus Christ.
If you were having difficulty on an important test and could safely cheat by looking at someone else’s paper, would you do so?
No I wouldn’t cheat. Tests have always been more of a game for me. While the rest of the world uses them as a bench mark to place people in some sort of hierarchy I have viewed them only as a gauge of what I still have the opportunity to learn.
If you were invisible, where would you go?
I would probably stay home. Invisibility would make people more prone to say things they wouldn’t say when I am around. I am not sure I really want to know what other people are thinking of me however valuable that might be.
Is life what you expected as a child?
Absolutely not! Life is for the most part far better than I ever dreamed as a child. While I have known some really deep pain, God has been with me every step of the way and much more magic lies ahead than has gone behind!
