Share Your World 2015 Week #22

Posted on June 2, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

This week I feel the need to start this post with Cee’s fifth question which is always…

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 serve a God who walks with His church through the deepest valleys (we have had some deep one’s this week read about it HERE ). No matter what we go through we always find Him not just waiting at the other side but walking with us through the fiery trial. God is so good and so faithful and He is an “ever-present help IN trouble.” Psalm 46:1

This week coming I am looking forward to getting back on track with my blogging and writing schedule. During the last month or so I have been rather spotty because of the pace of life and ministry. But I feel like I am getting on top of that and launching into a new phase of writing productivity!

Here I am, beginning that new phase by sharing my world and inviting you to share your world with others by clicking the icon above and flying over to Cee’s blog to read about other parts of the world that intersect there.

Here are the questions:

Complete this sentence: Never In My Life Have I….

Never In my life have I been to Africa or Australia or New Zealand or Alaska or Asia or…. well that should keep me going for however long I am to remain on this spinning orb of life.

Complete this sentence: My neighbour wants me to help her…..

My neighbor wants me to help her… Actually I do not think my neighbors want me to help them do anything. I live in the midst of a pretty huge DIY neighborhood and I seem to be the only one who cannot do most things himself.

Complete this sentence: When I was little I wanted…

When I was little I wanted to be a superhero. I would spend hours pretending I was Superman, Green Lantern or the Flash. I have learned though that being heroic is not about the grand sweeping gestures. It is about the commitment to walk a path of little faithfulnesses everyday. Without that commitment, no superpower no matter how awesome will make you a hero.

Complete this sentence: Will you come here to…

Will you come here on a regular basis? If so I commit to doing everything in my power to introduce you to a world of encouragement, hope and light!

The sun glowing

The underside of the clock on the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft

Please click the Share Your World icon at the top of the post and it will take you to Cee’s blog so you see other people’s shares.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Unusual Angle or Point Of View

Posted on May 27, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week’s Fun Foto Challenge from Cee is soooper cool. I love taking shots from weird angles. Check out how others have seen the world from different perspectives by clicking the icon above.

Here is my gallery:

Sun through the winter trees.

Through a glass darkly

Through a glass darkly II

Smurf’s Home

On the edge of time

A heart of stone

Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped

Posted on May 16, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Enveloped.”

The Daily Post has asked us…What does enveloped mean to you?

I suppose to be enveloped means to be covered over….

Like my daughter was covered over by my dog, Mercedes in this photo. It reminds me of a song we used to sing a long time ago in church, ‘I am covered over with the robe of righteousness my Jesus gives to me….” I don’t know how righteous Mercedes is but she is a good dog and she is white.

I suppose to be enveloped could mean to be contained within something….

Like my daughter is contained in the arms of these two school chums.

OR

Like the light of the sun is contained within the branches of this bush. If that is so then maybe to be enveloped is more perception than condition.

One Word Photo Challenge: Cloudy

Posted on May 15, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This Post is written in response to Jennifer’s One Word Photo Challenge: Cloudy. Click the link to see other people’s clouds.;

Here are mine:

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Maya Angelou

“Yesterday I inhaled a cloud, and immediately my eyes started raining.”
― Jarod Kintz, Whenever You’re Gone, I’m Here For You

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The sky and the sun are always there. It’s the clouds that come and go.”
― Rachel Joyce

Forces Of Nature

Posted on May 11, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Forces of Nature.”

The Daily post has asked us to show the forces of nature from our little corner of the globe. Having just come through one of the worst winters ever in my life time here is my force of nature

Rough winter 1

Rough winter 2

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley

Frozen Ground

I am so glad Spring is finally here!

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Abandoned or Alone

Posted on May 9, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week Cee has challenged us to photograph Abandoned and Alone

My thoughts are below and the photos of Cee’s other contributors can be found at Cee’s B& W page for the week by clicking the Black & White icon…

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Martin Luther

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

John Fletcher

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord Byron

Cee’s Fun Foto CHALLENGE: PINK!!!!

Posted on May 7, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

I have to admit that at first I was a bit intimidated by the notion of “pink” pictures. I was pretty sure I wouldn’t find much in my archive. But then I started looking and I found a plethora of pink. You can see other pinks by clicking the smiley face above. My gallery of fifty shades of pink (or seven) is below.

The gentle scent of the French Rose.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers Up Layers

Posted on May 2, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Intricate.”

Intricacy is a complicated topic…

Peacock Design at Delft Factory

Maybe what we are talking about is the intricacy of human craftsmanship. Our human penchant for detail.

Inside Guiness Brewery

Or maybe it’s the crazy support systems we use to keep our world together.

No one can deny the intricacies of a Bach played on a piano-forte.

But in the end nothing rivals the intricacies of life made and given by God.

The petals of a rose.

The mountain winds blowing through a forest of trees.

Or the sunlight settling on the smile of a child.

Cee’s Black & White: What Shape are You In?

Posted on April 24, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under Photography

This week Cee has asked us to come up with Geometric Shapes for her black & white photo challenge. Click the underlined words to see how others met the challenge.

050714 black and white (4) I have learned a few things from shapes about life.