I started participating in Caddo’s seven word Sundays almost four years ago under the encouragement of poet Caddo Veil. Caddo has been silent on the blogosphere for a bit but her idea of summing up the week in seven words keeps ringing!
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!
This week Cee has challenged us to find her some: FARM ANIMALS
So I went down to MacLillie’s farm and found these…
Baa! Baa! Black sheep have you any wool?
This is Verle, the horse from one of my newest flash fiction pieces.
https://josephelonlillie.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=6144&action=edit#
Every farm has a cat
And a dog
And kids…
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/
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All righty then! It’s week 9 of sharing our worlds. It never gets old. Check out how others in the blogosphere share their worlds with our hostess Cee at
Share Your World – 2015 Week #9
Here are this week’s questions and my answers…
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
I would be somewhere around 100. People tell me I am a little old man. Maybe it’s the job that projects that image or maybe it’s because I consider naps a form of entertainment, beats me.
Are you left or right-handed?
Right handed, Left brained.
If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to?
Matthias. I think Matthias is a cool name.
Where do you hide junk when people come over?
In the upstairs bedrooms, which reminds me I have to clean from Christmas.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I was very grateful to be able to attend the service in which my daughter was presented with her first set of ministerial credentials. She is now, Pastor Melanie Franklin!
This week I am looking forward to getting a lot of the projects my editor has assigned me finished.
This week Cee has challenged us to have some black & white pictorial fun with: WHEELS
Find out how others shot wheels at
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Wheels
The world is full of wheels. There are spinning wheels.
There are cheese wheels.
There’s wheeling and dealing.
But there is one wheel that touches us all, the wheel of time.
Hey all! We have been sharing our worlds for the first 7 weeks of 2015. Now it is time for an eighth share. My answers to Cee’s 5 questions are below and you can either answer the questions yourself in the comments section below or in a blog post of your own. Come on it fun! The most fun part is reading what others have shared at
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/02/23/share-your-world-2015-week-8/
My answers:
Your favorite blog post that you have written? (add link)
This is a tough one. At this point I have written over 2300 posts on two blogs. I do a lot of series writing; so it’s really hard to narrow it down to one post, but one of the series of posts I recall the best, is the “Ferocious” series. I have reblogged it a few times now and developed into a thirteen week Bible study since I first wrote it. Those posts can be found on my “Ferocious” page under the “Pastor Wrinkles” heading or by clicking on
https://josephelonlillie.com/pastor-wrinkles/sermons/ferocious/
What do you feel is the most enjoyable way to spend $500? Why?
The most enjoyable way to spend $500.00 is to spend it on someone else or to give it away. Giving carries one of the greatest emotional blessings of happiness known to man. It is hard at first for me to commit sums of money to other people (it’s against my nature) but I have learned that once committed to, the gift brings with it an incredible peace and joy that settles over my soul
If you could know the answer to any question, besides “What is the meaning of life?”, what would it be?
“How in the world did I end up here?”
Where do you eat breakfast?
I eat breakfast most days at home while watching the morning news or reading at the breakfast table. It is usually two pieces of toast with peanut butter a half a banana and two cups of coffee.
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 an incredibly productive day on Saturday with our C.cada artists.
https://josephelonlillie.com/2015/02/24/whats-a-maker-space/
This week I am looking forward to leading worship at our Network office in Charlton MA
Every week Cee from Portland asks us five questions about our world. We her contributors answer those questions and so we share our worlds. You can see how folks across the globe answered Cee’s questions this week by going to
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/02/16/share-your-world-2015-week-7/
Here are the questions and my answers
Is the paper money in your possession right now organized sequentially according to denomination and with the bills right side up and facing the same way?
Absolutely not. The money is stuffed in every which way. Some is folded and some is just crumpled in with the receipts
What is your favorite type of dog? (can be anything from a specific breed, a stuffed animal or character in a movie)
I really love my Maltese puppies. There coats are a labor of love but they are so sweet-tempered I hardly mind.
If money was not an issue, would you go on a cruise? If so where would you go?
I would really love to take a Viking River Cruise up the rivers of Europe some day.
Would you dare to sleep in haunted house overnight?
I probably wouldn’t but if I did it would be to exorcise the ghosts and demons out of the place.
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 have the drives and walks cleaned out once again. I am really grateful for the help my neighbors gave in cleaning out the ends of my drive. I am excited to begin the chapter treatments on my next book this week. It is called, I Wasn’t Really Dead, and Other Lies I’ve Told.
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