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Another week has come and nearly gone…
It felt like a normal, almost typical week…
At times it seemed so scattered and chaotic at times that I wondered if I had accomplished anything.
That’s “normal”…
I decided to look back at my calendar to see what I had actually done
Here are some highlights from a “typical” pastor’s week:
So the other day I was at a mall and witnessed something that made me chuckle. This mom apparently had 3 kids and a husband. Of course, that was an assumption I made about them, but for this story it won’t really matter. What I thought was funny was the woman’s purse. It wasn’t huge, but every child and the husband wanted something from the woman and she found it in her purse. Apparently she was the keeper of her family’s stuff.
Ever seen that one before?
She had a brush, money, some kind of medicine and a bottle of mustard. I know…random right…but that’s what made me chuckle. This mom was prepared for whatever her family needed…all within a single purse.
So it made me wonder…
Some experiences’s just mold your character faster than other experiences…
Today, let’s share those experiences with each other.
Let’s do that by completing this sentence:
Sometime in a person’s life they need to experience ______________________.
Let’s write a story together!
We did this last year and it was a lot of fun. You can read our finished story HERE. Several asked if we could repeat it. I’ve picked up a few readers since then, so this is new for some of you.
Here is how this works: (Please read carefully)
- I will write an opening set up sentence.
- You add the next line.
- You can only add one line until someone else adds a line.
- Please don’t try to write one long sentence that really is a paragraph. The fun is getting the different inputs and imagination to work together.
- You can add as many lines as you want, but only one at a time, and only with someone else having a line between yours.
- Please try to keep the story flowing. Your sentence can be light-hearted, funny, or even tragic, but please DO NOT add a sentence that stops the story or takes it in a bizarre direction in an effort to disrupt the story serious that commenters are writing or take it in an awkward direction. (There’s always one like this and I reserve the right to delete the comment if it appears that’s what is happening with the comment.)
- I will not be able to use crude or vulgar comments. (I realize that will limit some of you from participating, but…)
- Please add your sentence here on the post as a comment, not on Facebook and Twitter. This is the only way it will be added to the final story.
The goal here is to be creative and see where our imagination and the story takes us, yet write a credible, interesting story. After comments seem to be slowing, I’ll post the entire story in a separate post. If you leave your full name, I’ll give you credit in the excerpts. If you have a blog link when you add your comment, I’ll link to you also.
Have fun!
Here is the first sentence:
I’ve only made 7 bad decisions in my life…
Or something like that…
The problem is I’ve just multiplied the same bad decisions over and over again..
Here are my 7 bad decisions: