Random Dozen Meme

Linda at 2nd cup of coffee created and hosts the Random Dozen meme every Wednesday. You can answer the questions on your blog and link up to Linda’s plus find more participants there.

1. Have you ever been so lost that you were really afraid?

I have a vague memory of a getting lost in what looked to be a bad area of town on a road trip, but I can’t remember much more about it. Then once when we lived outside Atlanta, I drove the kids into Atlanta for a home school group field trip to a downtown museum. Getting there was pretty straightforward, but getting back to the highway from whence we had come was not. Most incidents of getting lost are more unnerving, frustrating, upsetting, but I try to tell myself that with a little help I will get home eventually.

2. Have you ever been to an island?

I grew up near Padre Island in southern Texas, and a lot of outings, celebrations, etc. were held there.

3. Are you more of a thinker or feeler?

Thinker.

4. Do you tend to see issues or situations in life as black and white or shades of gray?

It’s not all either/or. There are many absolutes, but then there are some areas to give each other room to be different.

5. If you were stuck on an island, what book would you hope to have with you (Let’s pretend the Bible is already there, so you can’t say that.)

This is a hard one since I like a variety of books. I think I’d prefer to have a classic I knew I liked, like Amy Carmichael’s biography or Little Women or David Copperfield rather than something new that I might not like. Or one of Jim Berg’s books like Changed Into His Image since I have read it a couple of times and still feel like I need to read it again.

6. What are you most afraid of?

That my loved ones who have not accepted Christ as Savior won’t.

7. Would you rather lose all of your old memories or never be able to make new ones?

This is one of those impossible questions to answer.

8. Pretend I’m looking at a scrapbook page about you. There are three spaces for you to drop in individual pictures. What are those pictures of, and why did you select them?

My family, my home, and books because those are what I most love on earth (of course, in the same vein as #5, aside from the Bible and spiritual concerns.)

9. If you were re-doing your wedding, what would you do differently? (If you’re single, tell me one thing you would do if you were planning a wedding OR huge party.)

I would try to find a better time or way to do the photos. We did them right after the wedding ceremony while the guests were at the reception, and some of them were leaving by the time we got done and came over. I didn’t want to do photo with the bride and groom beforehand, though. I like what my son and daughter-in-law did. The photographer took as many of their photos beforehand as she could. I would also have had a session with the photographer beforehand. We met and saw some of his other work, but didn’t have any bridal portraits done ahead of time because I was away at school. But my eyes were closed in about half my wedding photos, and perhaps a little session beforehand would have revealed my tendency to do that.

10. Tell me one thing you know/believe about forgiveness.

“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins” Colossians 1:13-14.

11. You’re waiting in a doctor’s office. What is your favorite way to pass that time?

Reading the book I brought with me. Having a little extra reading time is the one bright spot in having to go to the doctor.

12. If there were a clone of you in a parallel universe what is one way you hope she/he would be the same as you and one way you hope she/he would be better?

Different: more patient, more open, more healthy.
The same: sense of humor, way of thinking.

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