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  "Prompt: Write about Cabin Fever."Cabin fever is what people get when they don't obey the Lord and we all have to stay inside because man is trying to keep catching COVID-19. I have cabin fever myself, but that is under control now. I ventured out and got me a Starbucks Triple Chocolate something or other. It settles my craving for something sweet. COVID-19 will pass but God's anger toward people will not. God is tired of watching His creations backstabbing each other and breaking His every command. Corporate greed is terrible and it is just as bad in God's eyes as government complacency. Corporate greed is what is leading this world to hell in a handbag. The corporations put the bottom line ahead of human need and God won't tolerate that. To here corporations tell it anything under $20.00 is free. I spent twenty minutes the other day signing up for something because it was advertised as free. When I completed the sign up it tried to charge me $5.00! Free means free people. It means nada, zero, zilch, nothing! If a common person advertised something as "free" and then tried to charge $5.00 for it, they would be arrested for fraud. Well God sees all these idiots doing this and He is angry. Lawsuits are outrageous any more. I know a man who lost his house because some criminal tried to break in and got hurt in the process and arrested. The criminal then sued the man and won because he was hurt breaking into the man's house! Shyster lawyers back up these idiots and twist the law to use against the little guy. Then we wonder why we are being punished? Wake up people. Quit legalizing things God calls sin! Outlaw Adam and Steve marriages because God says they are an abomination. Outlaw abortion because God says it is murder. Put prayer and discipline back in school! Prompt: "Your most excruciatingly embarrassing moment. We’ve all got one."I don't want to discuss my embarrassing moments because they are embarrassing. No really, my most embarrassing moment was right before I got my hearing aids. I was working as a volunteer at the Salvation Army. My job was to give out food and if needed be a carry out person. Well a pregnant woman came in, obviously due anytime. She got a big order of groceries and other stuff. It was obviously more than she could carry and I asked her where she lived so I could help her home with her stuff. She said "I'm parked right out there." I thought she said "I'm at the Park." The park is about two miles away and I knew it was too far, so I told her I couldn't help her. Then I watched as this poor pregnant lady struggled to get her stuff to a car not thirty feet away! I was immensely embarrassed. I made an appointment with the audiologist and now have hearing aids!    |
 Prompt: "Congratulations on making it to the last day of the competition! What was your favorite prompt from the last month? What was the most rewarding aspect of participating in the competition?"I am just thrilled that I made it through the competition without missing any of the prompts with the exception of a Sunday I believe. Sunday is usually my busiest day as I am a chaplain and usually ministering on Sunday. As to which prompt was my favorite, I can't remember what the prompt was from yesterday without going back and looking. It would take me forever to get though all 30 blog entries to determine that. Probably the one I liked best though would have been the one where you asked us to send in prompts and use another's prompt to write our blog. I used a prompt from QPdoll   and enjoyed the prompt as I recall. It was challenging to decide among the many good prompts given that day. Congratulations to everybody who was able to complete the challenge. I know it's tough to discipline oneself to stick it out. "Prompt: What scent evokes memories for you?"The scent of the air just before a warm rain always does it for me. The memory is of having a picnic when I was a child and then playing out in the rain afterwards. It was a warm summer day so Mom didn't mind us getting soaked. To this day, some 40 plus years later, every time there is rain on the breeze I remember that. "Prompt: What scent evokes memories for you?"I can't say that any color evokes strong memories for me although red should evoke strong memories for mankind. Red is the color of blood and God shed a lot of it in the Old Testament when Israel refused to repent. Now the world is refusing to repent and God is once more shedding blood. Do people think COVID-19 is a fluke? God wants mankind to put away their idols such as Allah, Buddha, Shiva, and all these others and turn back to Him. He wants corporations to build products worth carrying out of the stores and make more bang for the buck. He wants justice for the oppressed and not some hotshot lawyer making a deal and plea bargaining the innocent into prison. He wants us ti quit suing everybody we meet over stupidity. Law suits are ridiculous any more. He wants Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. He wants us to quit legalizing and supporting sin! |
Prompt: "Do you write like you talk? Blogging is inherently personal and therefore leaves a lot of room for your unique voice. How do you show your reader your personality through your writing?" I was always taught to write like I have some sense. If I wrote the way I talked I doubt that a lot of people could understand me because I stammer a lot. I do write the way I think so that allows my personality to come through. If I am writing news I try to stay away from personal opinions. The main reason I never watch the news anymore is because it has lost it's objectivity. The reporters report what they want you to think instead of the facts or they put their personal spin on it. News should be objective as should most writing. Keep personalities out of it. |
"March 28, 2020"  Prompt: "Write about something positive. What is something good that’s happened in your world recently? Share a smile, share a laugh, share a success.  " I don't know about anybody else but I have been immensely blessed over the past few weeks. I was accepted into the M. Div. program at Regent University and the whole process of acceptance into graduate school, which usually takes months, was completed in just days. I also received approval for my student loans and the stimulus check that the government is sending out. Thus my income jumped from just over $1,000.00 per month to over $2200.00 for April and well over $6,000.00 expected in June. I am deeply blessed. Much of that I have to pay back but it gives me breathing room during these hard times. "Prompt: How is your "stay at home weekend" going? Have you written anything you want reviewed? Have you reviewed anything you want to tell us about?"What weekend? I got up this morning and started my work day. It was noon before somebody asked me why I was working on Saturday. I told them the same thing I'm going to tell you. With this shut down the days are running together for me. I lost track of them and did not know this was Saturday! Prompt: "The most difficult decision you’ve ever made. Write from the heart."I really don't want to discuss it, but the hardest decision I ever had to make was discontinuing my late wife's life support after she was pronounced brain dead. |
| "March 27, 2020" Prompt: "Someone shared the poem “The Trough” by Judy Brown with me today and I want to pass it on to you. I found it incredibly comforting during this time of global crisis. In your entry today, write about how the poem makes you feel, or write a poem of your own." I agree with Judy. If we just relax we will get through this. Panic kills more people during a crisis than the crisis itself kills. Right now my biggest enemy is boredom. Like everybody this pandemic has me on stand still. I'm bored. I guess I'll find creative ways to keep myself busy. One way I am killing time is that I am the floor leader of my floor here at the West Virginia Veterans Home, a domicile for veterans. We have no housekeeping staff as housekeeping staff are restricted due to the virus. Floor leaders have been stepping up and doing some of the cleaning such as sweeping and mopping. That gives me an hour or so of activity. I have also been practicing my listening skills. I talk with a lot of people on the phone and it gives me the opportunity to minister by actively listening. Prompt: "Find your most popular blog post and then write a second series of it, or an update on itI have no idea which entry is my most popular. I've been doing this routinely for about three years. So I have no idea which one is my most popular. Prompt: "What you want to be when you grow up {yes, there’s still time}"I had a long childhood. I quit growing when I started using drugs at age 15 and in my opinion I didn't grow up until I quit using drugs a little over 11 years ago. It took me a long time to find my calling in life. I was certain I was going to be a peer support specialist and social worker, but that was not God's plan for me. He did not reveal His plan until recently, but He has guided me to pursue a Master of Divinity degree and has it in my heart to be a chaplain. |
| {entry: ** Image ID #2068112 Unavailable ** ** Image ID #2068112 Unavailable ** Prompt: "Fill in the blanks in this sentence and expand on it in your entry: I think people spend too much time ________ when they could be _________." I think people spend too much time cussing when they should be praying. I am the chaplain of the West Virginia Veterans Home and I am always listening to what the guys have to say. I hear them predominantly cussing situations in which they should be praying. Jesus' name is mentioned a lot around here but it is not used in an appropriate way. F-bombs drop way more than amen does. It's ridiculous. Prompt: "A guide to the town you live in"All I can say is get a map. I've lived here for three years and know nothing about this town. I will probably never see most parts of the town because I have no incentive to get to know it. When I go to Huntington WV, which was also new to me three years ago, I pretty much know my way around now. I had a job that required me to drive all over Huntington so I got to know it. My home is in Barboursville WV and I had no reason to explore it. I know where the City Park is and that is about it. "Prompt: "The worst thing about new books is that they keep you from reading the old ones." John Wooden How do you feel about this quote?"I disagree. I believe the worst thing about new books is that they are mostly self published now. That means they are not high quality books. They may meet the standards of the publisher but have no real value. I have never self-published. I have traditionally published and still believe it is the only way. If a publisher is willing to invest in a book then it is worth publishing. Self-published books are often vanity books. The publisher is not doing it because the book deserves it, but rather because the author is paying them to publish. |
| {entry: Prompt: "I need your help to fill the Challenge War Chest! In your entry today, write at least three prompts you’d like to see used in future rounds of the 30DBC. Then, choose one of your own (or one from someone else if you aren’t the first to post) to write your entry on." 1. Tell us about your favorite school teacher. 2. Do you attend worship services? Do you believe in God? Why or why not? 3. What did you do during the shut down of 2020? I chose to answer the prompt by QPdoll . She asked why I chose to participate in the 30DBC?I chose to participate this month because I knew I would be able to blog regularly. I am usually working and leave the house quite early. However work slowed down so that I spent a lot of my time there on the Internet. Why not use that time blogging? I decided to join and see what I could do. I know I won't win but it's still fun. Prompt: "Tell us about 9 things you just can’t handle {gross things like ugly toes etc etc}"To be honest I can't think of 9 things right off the bat. 1. Vomit 2. vomit 3. Vomit 4. vomit 5. vomit 6. vomit you get it. "Prompt: Would you ever blog for profit?"Yes I would. In fact I started to do so at one time but the company thought I should pay them. I never pay to have anything I write published. I know self-publishing is a reality but back in the day it was called "vanity publishing." I won't do it. |
| "March 24, 2020" Image #2066112 over display limit. -?- Prompt: "Start your blog with these words: “Five years from now...” Five years from now, I will be working on my D. Div. if all goes well. I am now enrolled to start the summer semester at Regent University in the M. Div program. My initial plan was to go to Marshall University and seek a MSW degree. In fact I had even gone so far as to apply to that program. However God had other plans for my life and He kept giving me subtle hints that I should seek a chaplaincy program. After all, I have been the chaplain here at the West Virginia Veterans Home for nearly four years and most of my work at the Salvation Army is chaplaincy related. I have known all of my life that I was destined to do ministry. I just did not know what kind. God had it all under control. I tried several different types of ministry and fell on my face. Then in time I became chaplain here and have been going since. I found my niche. Image #1997652 over display limit. -?- "Prompt: Write a psalms, praise, or song of praise to yourself or someone dear to you." My Jesus I praise you Lifting holy hands I praise you You are my sword and shield My protection against pestilence My way, my truth, and my life. Image #1971183 over display limit. -?- Prompt: "What are the ten must have ingredients to write a successful blog post?" I don't know. I've never written one. If I ever do I will be sure to tell you. Image #2098718 over display limit. -?- Image #2118746 over display limit. -?- Image #2187503 over display limit. -?- Image #2187984 over display limit. -?- |
| "March 23, 2020" Image #1997652 over display limit. -?- Image #1971183 over display limit. -?- Image #2066112 over display limit. -?- Prompt: "What is the best way to spend a rainy afternoon?" That depends. If I happen to be in a house with a tin roof then the best way to spend a rainy afternoon is sleeping. I always thought the sound of rain on a tin roof was hypnotic. It puts me right to sleep. The sound of rain period is hypnotic so I sleep a lot when its raining. I have narcolepsy so sleep is easy for me. It doesn't necessarily have to be raining. I can go to sleep anywhere. Image #1997652 over display limit. -?- "Title Prompt: Welcome to the Season of Renewal Write about something that is renewed in spring." That's easy enough to do. I hate winter and always look forward to the renewal of spring, especially the leaves. My favorite month is may because everything is green and I know it will stay that way for several months. There is also the renewal of other life such as new birds, new animals, etc. Image #1971183 over display limit. -?- Prompt: “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”- Christopher Reeve Your thoughts about this quote in respect to our current global situation. I think we will survive just as we survived the pandemic in 1918 we will survive this one. Image #2098718 over display limit. -?- Image #2118746 over display limit. -?- Image #2187503 over display limit. -?- Image #2187984 over display limit. -?- |
| "March 21, 2020" Image #1997652 over display limit. -?- Image #1971183 over display limit. -?- Image #2066112 over display limit. -?- Prompt: "Write about good things that can come out of a bad situation. If you have an example from personal experience, please share!" I have found that any bad situation that does not kill you will only make you stronger. It builds character to be put through the fire. I remember how impatient I used to be. I prayed to God to help me become a more patient person even though I knew doing so would mean that my patience would be tested in every possible way. God answered and I was tested but I learned to appreciate those tests as being the incentive to grow. Humans are like plants. We need a good helping of horse crap in our lives to help us grow. I honestly believe that. I think it took every moment, of oevery situation I have ever been through to make me who I am today. Do I have regrets? Of course I have regrets. There are a lot of things in my life I wish I could go back and tell myself not to do. However I know that doing them made me the person I am and I like who I am. I would not change me if I could. Image #1997652 over display limit. -?- "Prompt: "Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–over and over announcing your place in the family of things." ~ Mary Oliver How does the world offer itself to your imagination?" I can't describe all the ways the world offers itself to my imagination? I often wonder if people perceive things exactly the same or if we perceive them differently from each other. For example the color of grass to me is a dark shade of green but does that green look the same to me as it does the next guy or does he perceive it the way I perceive say brown? We don't know because we all agree that green is green. We don't have each others experiences so we don't know how another perceives things. They may see blue where we see red and it is the same color to us both. Does that make sense? The world often triggers my imagination. I can hear a bird chirp and I hear music. Beethoven could not have designed a better note. Bach's Air on G is one of my favorite classical pieces but it doesn't trigger my imagination like the sound I heard last night. Last night I hears frogs chirping for the first time in ten years. (My new hearing aids are awesome). Those frogs triggered all kinds of thoughts of summer being just around the bend. The sound of frogs and newly budding trees are the first signs of spring. It's life at its best. Image #1971183 over display limit. -?- Prompt: "What are your favorite fun things to do that don’t cost a lot of money?" One of my favorite activities is holding Bible studies. I am a chaplain and I love my job. Somebody said once that "If you have a job you love, you never work a day in your life." I love being a chaplain because I love Bible study. I love organizing Bible study and I love doing them. I learn a lot by doing them and as the teacher it never fails that I learn more than my students do. In fact, I may tell my guys tonight that I want each of them to take a turn teaching a class so they will see how much more they learn. I also love prayer and try to incorporate that into the weekly Bible study schedule. In fact, we have a prayer meeting once per week here at the home. I am the chaplain of the West Virginia Veterans Home in Barboursville WV and a resident here. As a graduate student at Regent University I am majoring in the M. Div. program. I have four internships that I have to complete. From what the advisers have told me though I may be given credit for my experience as chaplain and that experience will serve as my internships! Man that would be sweet. The adviser I talked to said that it was a done deal. I may have to do some papers about my experience and turn in some documentation, but I have three years of experience now. We'll see how that goes. Anyway to answer the prompt specifically I would say Bible study. It costs me nothing. It cost Jesus everything though so I can't let this blog end without giving him credit. I know people are running scared now due to COVID-19. This bug is killing people and they have reason to be worried. I may well be one of them it kills because I have a weakened system due to stage three kidney failure. However I am not afraid. I trust God to get me through whatever He brings me to: even death. I believe what II Chronicles 7: 14 says "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land." Image #2098718 over display limit. -?- Image #2118746 over display limit. -?- Image #2187503 over display limit. -?- Image #2187984 over display limit. -?- |
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