Who may climb the mountain of the Lord?
Who may stand in his holy place?
4 Only those whose hands and hearts are pure,
who do not worship idols
and never tell lies. Psalm 24:3,4
Well I am back and doing back to back Share Your world blogs because I am that far behind the curve.
Week 33 was so much fun I decided to do week 34 right away.
Here are Cee’s questions for this week and my answers:
What is your favorite comfort snack food?
I love macaroni & Cheese…no pizza…no Hostess Suzie Q’s…no Apple Fritters…no grilled cheese sandwiches…no COFFEE!!! Yes COFFEE!
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! That would be a miscarriage of wallet justice. The bills I have left over from lunch yesterday are stuffed hodge-podge in with all the receipts from last week. That way when I drive and sit on my wallet my leg can fall to sleep properly.
If you were a mouse in your house in the evening, what would you see your family doing?
Reading. Watching TV and forgetting to put the butter away so that I could leave my little mouse teeth tracks in it at midnight (We have lost more sticks of butter this way).
Would you rather not be able to read or not be able to speak?
Speaking is overrated (said the preacher). I want to be able to retain my ability to read.
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 opportunity I had to lead worship at Special Touch REACH New England’s chapter meeting this weekend and also to lead worship at Cornerstone Church.
This week our church begins its fall growth groups. I am excited to see this discipleship season begin.
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My participation in challenges has been exceedingly spotty in recent weeks. That is not for lack of trying but for lack of timing. The rhythm of life has been a bit catywhompus and I find myself in a constant state of readjustment to new events and “opportunities” that are arising.
This week I have posted my anchor blogs through Wednesday and I have chosen to come in to the office on a day when I am “not in” to do some creative writing. Answering challenges is a great warm up for my writer’s brain which feels a bit rusty just now from lack of use though definitely not from lack of material. I have been living life large and storing away a vast sea of experiences as fodder for the blank page.
But I digress. It is time to SHARE MY WORLD.
This is the challenge where our hostess, Cee, shares five questions and we, her contributors, answer them, thus, sharing with you, the readers, our world!
Click the underlined link to find all of Cee’s contributors and their worlds.
Here are the questions from week 33 and my answers:
Would you travel into outer space?
Of course I would! What an opportunity that would be and I bet there are fewer meetings in outer space meaning more free time.
Which country/city in the world (that you have never been to) would you most like to visit and why?
I would love to visit Reykjavik. I have flown into Keflavik airport before but this is all I saw of Iceland.
Iceland
What could you do to breathe more deeply today?
Take and hour to just listen for the voice of God.
Complete this sentence: This creamy peanut butter sandwich could really use some …
Chunk spaghetti sauce.
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 to have been able to meet with the staff of Calvary Christian Church in Lynnfield MA for a training on how to run a large church. I am also truly grateful for the hospitality of Pastor and Mrs. Schmidt who took such wonderful care of us while we were among them.
This week I am looking forward to the Toy Town Fall Fest at Ingleside. We are celebrating the acquisition of this property as a community recreation/ makerspace.
This week the daily post has asked us to TAKE THEM TO THE EDGE WITH OUR PHOTOS.
Here are my edgy photos and below that a whole lot more from other contributors.
Life on the edge
On the edge in Amsterdam
On the edge of coming in.
This week we have been asked to HOLD UP A MIRROR FOR THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
Here are my mirrors and below there are about 400 more mirrors to be viewed.
I am almost too late for this challenge but before the new challenge comes out this afternoon I am going to answer the Weekly photo challenge from last Friday with WELL FRAMED POST OF MY OWN.
Here are my framed photos.
– PsychPerspectives
It has been weeks since I have had an opportunity to write about my “quiet life”.
I have had so many wonderful opportunities to share faith with people these last weeks it has just eaten up my time.
I have run staff meetings and taken phone calls. I have attended prayer meetings and shared biblical principles for living with troubled souls. I have preached and I have led worship. I have attended planning sessions for future ministry and future town projects. In all of it I have seen the hand of God moving mightily.
I was honored to perform a wedding for a young couple I once had in youth group.
I was equally honored to lay to rest and offer words of comfort at the graveside of one of God’s saints.
I attended a baptism.
Then i traveled to the Berkshires to do lead worship at a camp for the disabled and to care for one of the guests who needed some one to one care.
I was privileged to be the pastor appointed to pray for the cities of the North at the Worcester County Prayer day this last Saturday.
Then yesterday after Sunday services I attended a thank you luncheon for our worship and arts teams of the church.
My life my not be externally quiet but the blessing of it leads to a deep inner calm that restores the soul. As the writer to the Hebrews says, “There remains a Sabbath rest for God’s people”. It may not come in the way we think but the rest God gives is the best there is.
How do you find rest for your soul?
It is day 1 of what I am calling super week. The car is loaded and I am starting out on the drive to Special Touch NE Getaway in the Berkshires.
Here is what I saw at sunrise this morning.
Lillie-Put 