Share Your World Week#10

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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!

Travel Theme: Graceful

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I am posting ahead this week in an effort to avoid gaps in the posting but knowing that the weekend is going to consume me once I am into it. So while this may be coming out on Tuesday I am writing it on Friday. I hope all of you have adjusted to the time change with Daylight Savings upon us.

Ailsa has asked us to show:GRACEFUL

You can discover loads of grace by going to

http://wheresmybackpack.com/2015/03/06/travel-theme-graceful/

Here are my thoughts on the subject

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Blog Pitch Party 2: Pitch Your Blog And Attract New Followers

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What a great idea!

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invitedSince Spring Training has started, I’ve certainly got pitching on my mind, Modern Philosophers.

However, not all pitching is limited to the type that takes place on a baseball field.

I’ve been thinking about the wildly successful Blog Pitch Party I threw back in July, and I thought it was time to host another.

As you know, I’m also a screenwriter.  When I was lived in California, I’d get invited by producers to a pitch meeting.  Basically, they’d ask about my scripts, and then based on a few sentences from me, they’d decide if they were interested in reading any of them.

keep wrtingI thought that same progress would work perfectly with blogs.  Why not bring a little Hollywood to the blogging world, Modern Philosophers?

In the comment section, pitch your blog.  Give us the name, a link, and up to three sentences describing your blog.

If you choose to participate…

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It’s a Dog’s Life

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Oh to have the faithfulness of a dog!

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The origin of the phrase used in the title, began as a reference to the hard life of the working dog: sleeping in a damp barn, chasing rats and other intruders, living on scraps, etc. Today, however, it has in some circles acquired the completely opposite connotation.  The phrase has been trace to century when dogs would guard homes and small communities, were fed scraps, slept outside and had short lives. so it meant life wasn’t good.  That dogs are well fed, groomed, pampered, sleep inside and live longer, so it now means a good life

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The latest copy of The Word for You Today contains something written by an anonymous poet.

If you can start the day without caffeine; if you can get going without pep pills; if you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains; if you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles; if you can eat the…

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Old MacLillie Had a Farm

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This week Cee has challenged us to find her some: FARM ANIMALS

So I went down to MacLillie’s farm and found these…

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Baa! Baa! Black sheep have you any wool?

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This is Verle, the horse from one of my newest flash fiction pieces.

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Every farm has a cat

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And a dog

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And kids…

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Oops! I mean kids.

Find out what other people have on their farms at…

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/03/03/cees-fun-foto-challenge-farm-animals/

Is My Prayer Good Enough?

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The crucifix at Kylemore Abbey

The crucifix at Kylemore Abbey

A group of us gather at our church three times a week for an hour of morning prayer. We generally do a brief devotion and then spend about fifteen to twenty minutes in solitary prayer and meditation before coming together for a half an hour of corporate prayer.

This morning in my time of meditation I felt the Spirit of God nudge me with these thoughts which I penned into my journal,  “The Holy Spirit does not rely on your ability to express His manifestation in order to define the boundaries of His manifestation. The power of your prayers does not come from your words, your volume or your emotion. He is able to do as much work whether you pray long or pray short whether you pray soft or pray loud. How you express your prayer does not determine the power released as long as you are praying in line with the Spirit’s desires.”

I think many of us get hung up on whether or not we are “good pray-ers”. But God does not need people who can pray long flowery or loud exciting prayers. He is the God who invented speech and nothing in the way of language surprises Him. Time means little to a God who dwells in eternity so pray as long or as short as you want. Although, time does mean something to the people you are praying with. Remember,  we aren’t in eternity yet so when you pray with people try not to pretend a thousand years are like a day. God’s not deaf nor does He have a nervous condition but the people you are with might have either; So you might want to tailor your volume according to the auditory sensibilities or the nerves of the people around you. I think the way we pray has more to do with whom we are  praying with than whom we are praying to.

God doesn’t need long flowery or loud exciting prayers. But what HE does need is people who will commit to discovering and praying His will. In fact God is most excited when we catch His vision for prayer. Emotional excitement is secondary to Him but what really grabs His heart is when His people pray His Kingdom to come on Earth and His will to be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

What specific kingdom prayers is God directing you to pray these days?