[Randy Larsen]

Been there! The US Navy saw to that!

You Are Quite Worldly

You've done a good bit of worldly exploring, and you have an international perspective.
And you're definitely looking forward to your future adventures abroad.
You've got the passport, the desire to travel, and maybe even the language skills.
Now all you need are the means!

How Worldly Are You?

[lightman]

You Are Not Very Worldly...Yet

You haven't really traveled the world yet, but you'll get around to it someday.
In the meantime, it couldn't hurt to broaden your perspective a little.
Try a new type of foreign food or pick up a foreign movie to watch.
You can become more worldly without a passport!

How Worldly Are You?

[Tanniker Smith]

HEY! New thread's up early!

As they might've said in The Ox-Bow Incident: the Nooseman came a little too soon!

[Tanniker Smith]

Slow computer.... will this work???

[Tanniker Smith]

Slow computer.... will this work???

[G8 Diplomat]

You Are Not Very Worldly...Yet

You haven't really traveled the world yet, but you'll get around to it someday.
In the meantime, it couldn't hurt to broaden your perspective a little.
Try a new type of foreign food or pick up a foreign movie to watch.
You can become more worldly without a passport!

How Worldly Are You?

Yes, I confess--the only foreign country I've been to is Canada. But gimme time, I'm only 18. I WANT to travel the world though, I want to see Finland/Scandinavia, Russia, Germany, Australia/NZ, the Caribbean, Borneo...note: some of those place I'd like to see for the sights, NOT the politics! I'm a language nerd though, so it's a good start, lol

[Tanniker Smith]

Slow computer.... will this work???

[Tanniker Smith]

Slow computer.... will this work???

[Tanniker Smith]

Slow computer.... will this work???

[Tanniker Smith]

Slow computer.... will this work???

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Noosie...Hugs.

I didn’t get pinged...Whine,whine whine..and a little cheese.

[steveo]

***I Are Quite Wordly***

yeppers that I am

[mylife]

You Are Quite Worldly

You've done a good bit of worldly exploring, and you have an international perspective.
And you're definitely looking forward to your future adventures abroad.
You've got the passport, the desire to travel, and maybe even the language skills.
Now all you need are the means!

How Worldly Are You?

[Aliska]

Wow, I guess it's not unexpected. I don't fit the questions. I can communicate in phrases in French; meaningful conversation, no. No passport for years.

Travel phobia, lucky I got to Europe once, can only go within about a 50 mile radius on a really good day now.

I read no magazines any more, do almost all my reading on the web.

I'm not the generation that was raised on fast food. We had home-cooked meals almost every day, and when we ate out, it was usually a family buffet type place. Ethnic food? I hated it except the American version. Now I love a lot of it, Middle Eastern, Mexican, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, that was a pretty good fit. I don't like curry so haven't ventured into the more exotic cuisines. Fast food for us was a drive-in that had the most wonderful hamburgers I have never been able to duplicate at home. There is a chain up near Chicago called Schoop's that sounds like what we used to be able to get. The meat has to be ground a special way. I think a few other places may still have them, nothing even close around here any more.

Fashion? What is that? I used to be a real clothes horse, now I like to look nice but have very simple clothes. My sister buys most of them for me because I hate shopping for them. It's not that I don't care what I look like. I just have very simple tastes now, things do have to coordinate unless I'm painting lol. That's not artistic painting. That would be painting stuff around the house.

Enough of my blather. I thought it would be religion-oriented.

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[Kimberly GG]

“You Are Not Very Worldly...Yet
You haven’t really traveled the world yet, but you’ll get around to it someday.
In the meantime, it couldn’t hurt to broaden your perspective a little.
Try a new type of foreign food or pick up a foreign movie to watch.
You can become more worldly without a passport!”

LOL, unless I can travel by boat, I’ll never venture where I can’t drive. Being afraid to fly is sooooo limiting, I even missed my youngest son’s college graduation in Switzerland. But with some encouragement from him, I have taken my love of theater and music and gone on an ‘internet’ trip to Europe and discovered, just this week, this wonderful show, Le Roi Soleil. I don’t understand a word, but can’t get enough of the score, vocals, costumes, and choreography!! A long the lines of Cirque de Soleil...If foreign theater is your thing, enjoy.

mon essentiel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_gmzYJHxKw

ca marche
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLyW2HN-t4

Un Geste de Vous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4lwVWxAlok

[The Mayor]

October 3, 2007

Cracked Lenses

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READ: Psalm 141

My eyes are upon You, O God the Lord; in You I take refuge; do not leave my soul destitute. —Psalm 141:8

I started wearing glasses when I was 10 years old. They are still a necessity because my 50-something eyes are losing their battle against time. When I was younger, I thought glasses were a nuisance—especially when playing sports. Once, the lenses of my glasses got cracked while I was playing softball. It took several weeks to get them replaced. In the meantime, I saw everything in a skewed and distorted way.

In life, pain often functions like cracked lenses. It creates within us a conflict between what we experience and what we believe. Pain can give us a badly distorted perspective on life—and on God. In those times, we need our God to provide us with new lenses to help us see clearly again. That clarity of sight usually begins when we turn our eyes upon the Lord. The psalmist encouraged us to do this: "My eyes are upon You, O God the Lord; in You I take refuge; do not leave my soul destitute" (141:8). Seeing God clearly can help us see life’s experiences more clearly.

As we turn our eyes to the Lord in times of pain and struggle, we will experience His comfort and hope in our daily lives. He will help us to see everything clearly again.

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face;
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace.  —Lemmel
© Renewal 1950 Singspiration, Inc.

Focusing on Christ puts everything in perspective.

Bible in One Year:   Isaiah 17-19; Ephesians 5:17-33

[StarCMC]

You Are Not Very Worldly...Yet

You haven't really traveled the world yet, but you'll get around to it someday.
In the meantime, it couldn't hurt to broaden your perspective a little.
Try a new type of foreign food or pick up a foreign movie to watch.
You can become more worldly without a passport!

How Worldly Are You?

[Grizzled Bear]

You Are Very Worldly

You're an international jet setter - or pretty darn close.
And while you may feel like you have many more places to visit...
Most people live their whole lives without seeing what you've seen.
In fact, you're probably going to be traveling again soon. So Bon Voyage!

How Worldly Are You?

This test is stacked in favor of military members...not that I'm complaining! A few years a go my mother commented that the countries I visited/lived in out numbered the states she's visited.

[cowtowney]

“Very Worldly”

Been to 36 countries and all 50 states. It has increased my love and appreciated for our country.

Been to Russia, Berlin and China during the Cold War.