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Road trip!

by Innermost Being, posted in Word Prompts

Think back on your most memorable road trip.

When I was a kid, the only road trips we ever took were from Eastern Kansas, where we lived, to visit my mom’s family in Indiana. These trips were long car rides with five or six kids crammed into the car. The most memorable sight on our usual route to Indiana was the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri; I also liked driving across the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

On my most memorable family road trip, we combined a visit to mom’s family with a return trip through Oklahoma to see my adult brother, who was stationed at Fort Sill at the time. I was in college and home for the summer. To get to Oklahoma, we drove through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas.

It wouldn’t have taken long to drive through Kentucky or Tennessee. I remember driving through the Ozarks in Arkansas, or at least an area with hills and a lot of trees. There was a nuclear power plant. That was memorable because I had never seen one before.

The most memorable sight in Arkansas was a real, live roadrunner! It wasn’t just a cartoon character!

Oklahoma was also memorable to me because the dirt was red, unlike the soil in Kansas. Just today, I learned that in 1987, a few years after our visit, the state of Oklahoma designated port silt loam as the official state soil.

This trip down memory lane brings back memories of things I saw for the first time. It also brings back memories of mom, a single mother driving hundreds of miles to see her family. I miss you, Mom.

A healthy snack

by Innermost Being, posted in Word Prompts

What snack would you eat right now?

It’s just after 4:30 am where I live. I have already broken my overnight fast, so I’m not hungry right now. When I do get hungry again, I will eat a healthy snack.

My cholesterol has been borderline high for the last several months. I read that plant-based proteins reduce LDL and overall cholesterol. I bought a bag of pistachios to see if eating them makes a difference.

It’s a tasty experiment!

Email Organizing Service

by Innermost Being, posted in Word Prompts

Come up with a crazy business idea.

It drives me crazy when I am at a coworker’s desk, and I can see that they have hundreds of emails in their inbox. Even worse is when those emails are in bold font, so it looks like they haven’t been read! My boss is one of those people.

I’m an organized person. I don’t like having more than twenty emails in my work inbox. When an email comes in, I read it. If I don’t need it, I delete it. If it’s junk, I mark it as junk so that Microsoft Outlook will put it and future emails from that sender in my junk folder. If I want to keep the email (or if I need to keep it for future reference), I will file it in a folder.

Within my inbox, I have multiple folders, and there are folders within some of those folders. For example, Company A/Expenses/Vendor. When my boss asks if I received a particular email, I can easily find it.

I also tag important emails for follow-up.

You can categorize emails with color. I find that it’s not necessary to categorize if you use a folder system.

For a fee, my business would organize business emails. It’s a crazy business idea because the people who are unorganized don’t care!

Attachments

by Innermost Being, posted in Word Prompts

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

My youth was a long time ago. I don’t remember being incredibly attached to anything.

I do remember that I had a stuffed animal with bells in its ears. I think it was a dog wth floppy ears, but I can’t form a complete picture of it in my mind. I don’t know what became of it. We moved fairly often, including four times during my fifth grade year. I’ve always wondered if my toy was lost in one of those moves.

As an adult, I don’t feel incredibly attached to things. I do hang onto things I like, including the few momentos I have from my youth.

My purpose and my mission

by Innermost Being, posted in Word Prompts

What is your mission?

This question reminds me that after studying Rick Warren’s book, The Purpose Driven Life, I planned to write a life purpose statement. Writing this detailed statement will take some time, but Warren asked five questions to get me started:

  • What will be the center of my life?
  • What will be the community of my life?
  • What will be the character of my life?
  • What will be the contribution of my life?
  • What will be the communication of my life?

The five C questions tie into the five purposes in Warren’s book:

  • You were planned for God’s pleasure. Worship.
  • You were formed for God’s family. Fellowship.
  • You were created to become like Christ. Discipleship.
  • You were shaped for serving God. Service.
  • You were made for a mission. Mission.

The last bullet point is the mission of a believer – to share the Good News with nonbelievers.

How will I share Jesus with people who don’t know him?

One way is teaching Sunday school to kids in kindergarten through the fifth grade. After I retire, I may volunteer at the new teen center my church established this year.

A second way is through this blog. I am an introverted woman of deep faith who engages in spiritual introspection, and I share my thoughts in the blogosphere.

I believe the ultimate purpose of my life is to worship God with all my heart, mind, and soul and to love others as myself. This is the reason for my being, and it drives my mission.

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 22: 36-40