1. What is your favorite song lyric? Why? I love the chorus from the Casting Crowns song Love Moved First. It reminds me that God pursued me. He didn't make me clean up my act to be good enough. He loved me as I was. I know how to love because He first loved me.
You didn't wait for me to find my way to You
I couldn't cross that distance even if I wanted to
You came running after me
When anybody else would've turned and left me at my worst
Love moved first
3. What were 3 things that scared you as a child? The dark, snakes...and I can't think of anything else.
4. What are 3 things that scare you now? Snakes, sharks, and anything happening to my grandchildren.
5. Would you rather have the power of time travel or the power to see the future? I'd rather just stay in my own time, but if you force me to choose one or the other I'd choose time travel because I could pick a time I'm familiar with and go back and observe or just go back and see people who are no longer with us. I have no desire to see the future. I'm like that Garth Brooks song, The Dance. I'm glad I don't know the way it will go, because maybe I'd change how I do things and then I'd miss out on something good along the way.
6. Money, power, or good looks – which would you rather have an unlimited supply of? Money. I know it doesn't solve all of life's problems and if you aren't on guard, it can actually create more problems, but it does go a long way toward smoothing the road. Plus, thing of all the good I could do donating to various causes!
7. Are you jealous of anything? Not that I can think of.
8. What makes you feel most loved? Other than my relationship with Jesus and my marriage, it's how my grandkids light up when they see me or how they fling their arms around me and hug me with everything they've got. Or the other day when I was playing with my grandson and he just out of the blue said, "I like you."
9. Do you believe in soulmates? I know what you mean, but I don't like the term soulmate. It implies my soul is tied to someone else's and my soul belongs to God and God alone. That aside, yes, I believe there are people in this life that we just "fit" with right from the start...almost as if we've always known them. That's how it was with my husband and I and why we got married only 5 months after our first date.
10. What is something that made you laugh the most? I don't know a specific thing, but there are times with friends when we get to giggling and being silly and pretty soon we're laughing so hard we can't breathe. Oh wait! I do remember a specific time when the whole gang was playing the game Quelf. I don't think I've ever laughed that hard for that long. It's a great party game.
11. What were 3 of the happiest days of your life? Our wedding day, the huge party we had for our son's graduation/my aunt's 80th birthday, and the day the kids signed on the dotted line for the house next door.
12. What is your biggest flaw? Procrastination.
13. Who would play you in a movie about your life? I would want to pick Sandra Bullock, but it'd probably Kathy Bates or someone if we're going to be realistic.
14. What is something you experienced that you have no explanation for. The chair in my teenage bedroom that used to rock in the night.
15. What is the saddest book you ever read? The Diary of Anne Frank
16. What is your dream home like? It's a big, classic Craftsman with lots of beautiful woodwork on a lovely shady lot. By a lake or the ocean would be good.
17. What creature/insect would most creep you out if you found it crawling on you? Pick a snake, any snake at all. It wouldn't just creep me out, though. I'd probably die of fright.
18. What’s your preferred Monopoly piece? The top hat.
19. What was your most embarrassing moment? Not going there.
20. Could the earth be flat? Could the Pope be Amish?
I'm looking at the flat earth question, just out of curiously. Awesome answer - I might have to borrow that line. It is a devicive question I think in your neck of the woods. Oh my. Some good answers here.
ReplyDeleteYour worse teacher beats mine! I had a great chemistry teacher but I still got a D in that class. I had to take physiology to complete my lab science for college entrance. I got an A in that class. I wish I would have gone into the medical field, but I was afraid to fail.
ReplyDeleteI was in advanced chemistry and getting an A (due to being the only girl in a class that was otherwise all male), but I wasn't understanding a single thing. I found out that the general chemistry class was the exact same class, but moved at a slower pace...important since in both classes he didn't teach, but expected us to learn it from the book. With more time to digest stuff I was understanding and began to actually earn my good grades. I consistently had the highest test scores in the class. I know because he'd always pass our tests back and then make us read our grades out loud. He still wasn't fair, though. First he made me retake every test I'd taken in the advanced class again...in 2 days! Then even though I had the highest scores in the general class, he gave me bad grades that didn't reflect it. He was the worst!
DeleteI think it's interesting that you think God pursued you. When I started going to church again, as an adult and by choice, I recall feeling Him say, "I've been here all along, Gal." But that knowledge that I am as He made me, that He knows and loves and understands, was so powerful.
ReplyDeleteThat story about your grandson ("I like you") is so cute!
I do believe he pursued me. I can look back at my life before I became a Christian and see so many times when He tried to get my attention, when He put people in my life that tried to bring me to him, but I ignored it all. Yes, He was always there and I had to be the one to open my heart, but He was actively there.
DeleteCould the Pope be Amish? bahwahahahahaha...thanks...almost spat out my coffee. Right now, its the blasted Spanish class...I have had enough of this professor who thinks her stuff dont stink, just a saying. LOL
ReplyDeleteOh dear - Yes - I procrastinate too. I would finish this sentence but I have to ...
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Giggling at your description of that Chemistry teacher!
ReplyDeleteConversely, I sat listening to Love Moved First with tears flowing. I'd never heard this before, but I love it. Thank you for sharing it!
What a horrible high school chemistry
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I enjoyed you answers today.
Have a wonderful Sunday.
We would fight over the Monopoly piece, Stacy!! Interesting questions today. It is always fun reading everyone's responses. Happy Sunday!
ReplyDeleteYou teacher sounds like a nightmare. Egads. And a chair that rocks? I'd equate that with the ghost that sat at the foot of my bed . . .
ReplyDeleteSurprising how many of us chose Kathy Bates.
ReplyDeleteOMG, could the Pope be Amish. I died, bahahahahaha. Outstanding answer, Stacy. Have a fab week.
ReplyDeleteThanks, you too!
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