I am trying to do a little more with my photography. Cee has given me some awesome ideas here:
Walls:
This week Cee asks:
Oooode lawly (sound it out)…this is a good one!
Here are my four things:
1.
I want to be this guy! I would love to ride a horse in the warm surf on a tropical island. It seems like this would make for some great thinking time. First, though, I guess I should learn how to ride a horse. I imagine adding waves and shifting sand to horseback riding doesn’t make the task easier…hmmm.
2. I would like to take a month and seal myself away here
or here
or here
to write a novel. Just me plenty of food and drink and a type writer. Sounds heavenly!
3. Before I go on to glory I hope to visit each of my children at their respective mission stations around the globe. Of course before that happens they have to graduate from college, pay off loans and obtain missions stations. Soon and very soon! Two of them graduate this spring.
4. Finally on today’s bucket list of four things, I would like to have dinner with the Kennedys. My grandfather had dinner with both Robert and John F ( that was when they were all in state politics here in MA). My father had his picture taken with JFK before he was President. I would like to keep the tradition alive.
I wanted to give you all a little better glimpse of my recent trip to PA to visit with my son.
It totally depends on the store and the park. If we are comparing clothes shopping with going to say Six Flags well then I choose Six Flags. But if we are talking about going to shop at Barnes& Nobles or going for a long walk in our local Cogshall Park, I’m heading for the book store with a Starbucks in it. 🙂
I love listening to instrumental piano music while I am working. I usually keep my internet station turned to “Whisperings”.
OK these are not in any particular order.
I wish that my book would be miraculously published becoming and instant best seller.
I wish I was completely delivered from all my fears.
I wish I was perfect.
I collect all kinds of things: books, Bibles, walking sticks, dishes, memorabilia from my trips.
2012 a year of change, a year of new things.
The Cheese Race Alkmaar, Holland
I Amsterdam sign on Museumplein, Amsterdam
While Amanda’s birthday
was in April she opted for delayed gratification so that Tina and I could give her a night of Ireland. So last Saturday, after our September artist’s gathering, the three of us headed off to Boston for that evening of celtic wonder.
We started with dinner just off Government Center, at Kinsale’s Irish Pub.
After the Fenian Pasta, a huge piece of chocolate guiness cake and a strong cup of Irish Joe (to refresh me after the early morning and a busy day with artists and musicians), we headed up Tremont Street to see Celtic Thunder perform their one night in the city! I am a die-hard Thunderhead. It turns out so is the dean of student life at my daughter’s college. The dean ended up
standing next to us in line as we waited for our section to open up!…Small world! Amanda was really glad she was in dress code. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgtx1Er4OuM&feature=player_detailpage
A good time was had by all and I even managed to snap a few shots of the city while we were at it.
Lights in the city By JE Lillie
Celtic Pillars by JE Lillie
Boston Tea Party by JE Lillie
Neon Lobby by JE Lillie
Faces Looking Down by JE Lillie
Lights at the Wang by JE LIllie
City Scape by JE Lillie
gods of the mezzinine by Je LIllie
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Port Clyde, Lighthouse Port Clyde Maine
Catching Up is fun. I get to answer eight questions this week instead of four. Here we go! Next round:
Here are a few more Holland pics:
The old gatehouses at the locks have been converted to apartments
Ancient cathedral sanctuaries were built in the shape of crosses. This is the ceiling at the center of the cross.
I believe life is a lesson to be learned. Even the very hardest parts have benefit if we can somehow draw out of them the lessons hidden in darkness. As my lead pastor likes to say life is just “training for reigning!”
This summer has passed by in a whirlwind. Tonight as I prepare to venture onto summer’s last leg I am pondering what lessons I have learned.
The summer started with us sending two children overseas on Missions internships.
Joe with New Friends in Yangon
Joe ventured first to Bangkok via Dubai and then after spending some time along the Thai border he landedin Yangon, Myanmar.
Riding bareback
Melanie flew West to Japan on to Bangkok and then Chang Mai where she learned to ride an elephant and taught English (not necessarily in that order). I learned….
1. Contrary to popular opinion fathers do not worry more about daughters than sons.
2. Worry feeds on perception not on reality but when your perception is skewed reality doesn’t really matter.
3. Prayer refocuses perception onto reality and does away with worry.
Brenda and the Windmill
This was a summer of international travel for the Lillie clan. I hopped a plane to Holland to visit my missionary sister. I was introduced to peace and quiet again and I learned…
4. Rest is necessary and for me unplugging is the best way to get it.
5. Unplugging takes planning.
I became a Red Sox fan. Mom and I have watched many games together. From this I learned…
6. Television can be a community activity. I never knew it was possible to watch the tube without shushing everyone around me.
7. Being a fan is not for fair weather people especially if you are a Red Sox fan (there hasn’t been much fair weather this year). Yelling at players together is fun!
I hiked Doanes Falls in Royalston MA twice.
The Lower Falls, Doanes Royalston MA
Once with my daughter and once with a friend who just likes to hike while we talk rather than drink coffee.
From this I learned…
8. I am gloriously out of shape.
9. It is time to change that if I want to go on in my work for the Lord.
I got a note from someone in our congregation when I returned from Holland. Included with it was a candle and a picture of Tuscany. The note was a prophetic word saying the Lord had given me rest away but a time of heavy labor lay ahead and that I would not be getting away on vacation again for a while. The writer told me the candle and the picture were to remind me that even in the midst of mighty ministry it is necessary to take breaks and breathe the free air.
The word proved to be true. Since returning from Holland I have had one of the busiest seasons of ministry I can remember. There have been nights I packed up the puppies and slept at the church because one day just folded into another. I have visited. Prayed. Led worship. Preached. Written. Met with leaders and artists.Driven Van for VBS. Now I am getting ready to travel with my daughter to lead worship in Connecticut for Special Touch Ministries. From all this I have learned…
10. I do not know why God has graced me with this time, this opportunity or this freedom but for Him I will not waste one more moment,one more chance, one more ounce of strength. I will build His kingdom!
Warning In the Wind-JE Lillie
What have you learned this summer?
Reinventing the We'll 