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I will add here.. these questions brought out the transparency of my true self.. Read only at your own risk!
1. Do you own your things or do your things own you?
I hope I own my things.. Actually, I have already realized that a mother builds her nest while her children a re home , creating a safe and happy atmosphere of things that make home a lovely habitation.. But once your grown children tell you, "Mom, please start getting rid of all your stuff because we don't want any of it!" you start to see it all as an albatross around your neck...
2. Would you rather lose all of your old memories or never be able to make new ones?
Neither, but I am a backward looking soul to some extent and I would hate to lose my memories.
3. How do you deal with someone in a position of power who wants you to fail?
I give no credence to anything they have to say! I turn my attention more to the Lord of my salvation.. With Him I know I am a winner!
4. What do you have that you cannot live without?
My husband mainly.. Oh, how many times have I prayed, "Lord, please take me first!"
5. When you close your eyes what do you see?
Darkness....but
it is more what do I feel... completely enveloped in the love of God
6. What sustains you on a daily basis?
Again, of course, it is the love of God and faith in His promises.
7. What are your top five personal values?
faith, family, friendship, gratitude, responsibility
8. Why must you love someone enough to let them go?
For example, in raising our beloved daughter, you love them "hard " as you empower them to take flight and live their life well as unto the Lord. Our daughter excelled in college, took advantage of every opportunity to have the tools she needed to leave the nest, find a wonderful sustaining job, almost a thousand miles from hearth and home, doing cancer research in a large university setting, and build her own family ... instilling in her own children that same fortitude and resilience!
9. Do you ever celebrate the green lights?
Funny, I was just saying... if you're on or ahead of time going to your destination every light is green , but if you're running behind.. every one is red!
10. What personal prisons have you built out of fears?
I don't wish to go into this except to say that in my life I suffered events that gave me a victim mentality.. whereby I have struggled with being home alone after dark, or keeping the window shades open.. Hubs prefers to have the windows bare so it looks like we are home and having a great time. .. I would love to draw them all, but he says it makes it look like we are old fogeys. If you've had years of a peeping tom during the years of growning up you never want to have the blinds open... but I have learned by God's grace to be an over comer! Praise God...
11. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do?
I truly cannot think of a thing except to travel back to Ireland and ,hopefully, someday before I'm too old to Great Britain.
12. Why are you, you?
God created me as I am, although for the last 50 years he has been molding me more and more into the likeness of His son. Sorry to say it takes so long because I can be a slow learner. But I truly can say now that I love me. Extra baggage, warts, and all!
13. If you haven’t achieved it yet what do you have to lose?
Unfortunately, what I want to do takes a lot of money.. We like to save up and not go into debt for our desires.
14. What three words would you use to describe the last three months of your life?
To be perfectly honest....Weakness, pain, melancholy
Some physical issues from last year have taken a huge toll on me.. but I am slowly progressing The slowness makes me melancholy...
15. Is it ever right to do the wrong thing? Is it ever wrong to do the right thing?
Well, I have done plenty of wrong things and most times have paid a price in some fashion for my mindset or behavior...in other words it comes back to bite ya!
Regarding the other... wrong to do right... the world tells us it is wrong to do right according to godly precepts, but we mustn't compromise but continue to do right and therefore, probably pay a price from the world's perspective.. No one said following the Lord was easy!
16. How would you describe ‘freedom’ in your own words?
Freedom is that value that isn't free.. it was bought with a dear price.. whether you consider the freedom we have in Christ paid by His death on the cross, or the freedoms we enjoy in this nation that were purchased by the service of many men and woman who paid a high price to secure and keep that freedom.. Freedom is stated in scripture as thus:
John 8:36
"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." .... new spiritual relation, it will make them new creatures, freed from sin by the power of truth.
17. What is the most important thing you could do right now in your personal life?
I could commit to do the right and best thing for me .. eat healthily and well at all times, but alas, I still have a hard time with this truth!
18. If you could ask one person, alive or dead, only one question, who would you ask and what would you ask?
To Moderator: Why?
19. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
Being with my grand daughters every day... as it is I am a pauper.
I don't think you'll ever be too old to travel to England! First of all, there's no language barrier. London has a sophisticated public transit system, so you don't have to drive and I bet you can sight see without being too exhausted. I think England is a lovely dream destination.
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