Share Your World 2015 Week 20

Posted on May 20, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

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.

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

https://youtu.be/5pwbDo1ef9M

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.

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.”

Share Your World 2015 Week 18

Posted on May 8, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

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.

Hot Raggamuffin

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#11

Posted on March 18, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

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!

Share Your World Week#10

Posted on March 11, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

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!

Share Your World 2015 Week 8

Posted on February 24, 2015 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

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

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