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Share Your Wourld 2015 Week 33

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It’s that time of the week again folks. Here I am answering our hostess Cee’s five questions so that you can share in a part of my world.

Check out what others have shared HERE.

And here are the questions and my answers.

What are some words that just make you smile?

I love words period. But some of the words that make me smile are: hoi palloi, hoity toity, cattywhompus, and a word that my family uses to refer to bad drivers on the road that probably should not make me smile but just does…yep I’m going to leave you guessing what that word is. Maybe someday you will drive with one of my family members and discover it but until then…

You’re given $500,000 dollars tax free (any currency), what do you spend it on? 

Getting my sister back to Holland for her mission work and fixing up the house.

What subject would you like to study in depth, if given the time to do so?

I would love more time to study the art of writing effectively.

Would your rather be stuck in a small plane with bad turbulence for 2 hours or be a passenger in a car racing the Daytona 500?

Daytona 500 no contest. I have been stuck in a turbulent flight and that was no fun. I thought the wings were going to flap right off the plane.

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 spend some wonderful time with my son before he left for South Korea to begin his teaching career. Next week I am looking forward to preaching the chapel services for The Special Touch Northeast Regional Getaway in the Berkshires.
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The last breakfast with Grammy Lillie and Aunt Brenda.
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Contemplating the rain.

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Joe and his mom share a moment at “the last supper.”

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Family photo just before boarding.

Share Your World 2015: Two Weeks (29&30) In One

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Cee is on a retreat this week (teaching and training I think but you would have to read all her work to know for certain). You can find out more about that by clicking the “Share Your World” Icon below.

Now, because of the teaching/ training retreat, Cee has consolidated week 29&30 into one set of questions which equals out to 2 1/2 questions a week. Since it is really hard to answer 1/2 a question (although some would say I do that with some regularity) I have opted to answer all five questions at the beginning of week 30. There ya’ go! That is my story and I’m stickin’ to it!

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As a young boy I wanted to be a zoo keeper. Then in eighth grade I had a rather sudden shift. I remember going to my mother and telling her I was going to become a minister. I didn’t even go to church at the time, but I just knew that I was called… and well… I guess it was my first genuine God moment because today I am Pastor J.

What was your favorite food as a child? Do you eat it now? 

Macaroni & Cheese with hot dogs. Yes I sometimes still eat it, though it is not one of my “favorites” now.

If you were invisible, where would you go?

Invisible wouldn’t do it. I would also need mind reading ability to see what people were really thinking. But then if I could read minds maybe it wouldn’t be necessary to be invisible because then I could get more out of a hand shake than I ever would out of skulking around in shadowy corners. Until then I will just content myself with the knowledge that “God knows”.

Was that 1/2 an answer? Oh well I can’t tell you where I would go because then the people would be expecting me and never share, even in darkened corners, the things I want to know. Tthat would negate any benefit of being invisible (should I ever get the power). You see, mind reading is a much more beneficial skill!

Would you rather forget everyone else’s name all the time or have have everyone forget your name all the time?

I have a hard time remembering everyone else’s name (sometimes including my own). I hate that and would gladly trade it for everyone forgetting my name. I have found though that if you can remember people’s names they generally remember yours.

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

I am very grateful for a great trip to get my son in NJ last week and I am also grateful that his contract in Gyeongbuk was approved. Below are some picture of the area he will be heading to.

I am looking forward to preaching this week at Cornerstone a new message entitled “Unintended Consequences” from Genesis. 2.

Share Your World 2015 Week #28

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It’s time to share little bits of my world with y’all again! When you’ve done with my world shoot on over to Cee’s by clicking the icon above and see how the rest of the world is sharing!

Here are the sharing questions for the week posted by Cee herself:

What is your favorite comfort snack food?

I love nutty buddies, peanut butter ice cream and peanut butter sandwiches (with or without spaghetti sauce). I think peanut butter is the key. What do you think?

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If you had to spend one weekend alone in a single store but could remove nothing, which store would you pick? (except food or beverage)

Barnes & Noble of course. I could get through a couple of books in that time and I could nap in their big comfy chairs. I think they sell Peanut Butter cookies so I would be all set there.

What was the largest city you have been to?  What is the one thing you remember most?

I think the largest city I have been to has to be Manhattan NYC. I remember there were so many people on the side-walk I couldn’t stop because I was being carried along by the crowd. If there had been a peanut butter sandwich on the ground I could not have rescued it without being trampled to death myself.

Finish this sentence:  It has recently come to my attention that ….

I have a thing for Peanut Butter.

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

I am very grateful for the opportunity to spend a day in Boston with Evangelist Dorsey Ross and missionary Brenda Lillie. This week I am looking forward to further editing the chapters of my book.

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Me at Boston Harbor

Share Your World 2015 Week 25

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Here we are back at Share Your World for another seven-day spin and an answer to five questions. Click the icon above to see what Cee’s many friends have been up to this last week.

Here are the questions and my answers

What did you or did not like about the first apartment you ever rented?

The first apartment my wife and I rented was on the campus of a Bible College. It was so small we could sit on the living room couch and eat off of the dining table. The toilet and the shower were so close together you could wash your feet while sitting on the commode. The heat was not under our control and ran so hot we kept our windows open in the winter. The living room walls were sky blue and the carpet was a dirty orange. We had a two burner stove and no oven in our galley kitchen. We did all of our cooking in a crock pot or in a toaster oven my mother-in-law gave us ( 6 cookies at a time). Our Korean neighbors wonderful people (and I really mean that they were the best) often cooked really aromatically frightening dishes that smell has stayed with me all these years.

 Some days I find myself longing to be back in that itty bitty smelly apartment that clashed!

What kind of art is your favorite? Why?

I could get in real trouble with this one. I run an artist’s collaborative and I have met artists who are extremely talented in many genres. I don’t think I have a favorite art form. I have learned to appreciate many. The art forms I excel in are writing, music and photography. I am really bad at painting.

How many siblings do you have? What’s your birth order?

I have one sister and I am the oldest by two years.

Complete this sentence:  I’m dreaming of a white …. (and no you can’t use Christmas as your answer)

rhino playing Claire De Lune on the piano  in my bedroom. (You did say I was dreaming correct?)

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

I am very grateful that we successfully completed our summer art show in the park this last weekend. Now my eyes are turned towards finishing my work on my novel this week so I can meet deadline!

Share Your World 2015 Week 21

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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

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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.

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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

 

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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.

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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

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SPENDING TIME WITH THE BOY IS GOOD!

Share Your World 2015 Week 18

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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.

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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 17

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Hey everyone! It’s time for another episode of

share your world. Click on the icon above to fly over to Cee-land and find out how the world has answered Cee’s queries.

Here are the weekly questions and my answers!

What is your most favorite smell/scent?

I have so many favorite smells. I love the scent of onions and garlic cooking in the kitchen. On a warm summer night the scent of Italian food fills the atmosphere of our small town from the local eateries. I love it. Cilantro is a very calming scent to me. It reminds me of my grandmother and the smell of cherry pipe tobacco always makes me feel smarter.

Do you prefer long hair or short hair for yourself? 

I prefer short hair but I am always struggling to find time to make it to the barbers so long hair is often a plague I must endure.

Do you plan out things usually or do you do them more spontaneous (for example if you are visiting a big city you don’t know?)

My whole world is planned sometimes to a fault. On the odd occasion I have even begun trying to schedule naps lately.

What is your favorite outdoor activity?

I love mowing the lawn and burning brush.

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

I had a wonderful meal Sunday after church with my daughter and anew family from our church. This week Watoto African Children’s Choir is coming to minister at our church. I am really looking forward to this ministry.