Category: Question For The Day

I decided it was time to change things up slightly with a part of my blog. Over the past year or so I’ve been doing an entry once a month titled “Questions To Ponder” which consisted of me posing eleven questions for people to think about. But I have struggled in recent months to come up with this list all at once and have also noticed that participation in both reading and answering them all have been low as well. So I’ve come up with an alternative.

From now on, I’m going to have a “Question to Ponder For The Day” category, which will be just one single question for everyone to think about instead of that long list I did once a month. It’s my hope that this will boost participation from those who read my blog, by them taking the time to think about the answer and responding, given it’s just one question.

Regardless, I think change is important in life, as life is full of change. And truthfully, maintaining this blog over the past three and a half years has at times been exhausting. I haven’t missed a day yet posting something in here, which is precisely why I’ve only been writing an article every other day as of late because in all honesty, it’s gotten slightly tedious.

I guess I can probably scratch off the list of possible future careers being a journalist because they do this and more every single day. Nevertheless, I do enjoy writing, I’m just looking for a few more ways of placing some easy postings out there that don’t take much of an effort on my part, which is exactly why I came up with this new category.

So if you’ve made it this far in today’s reading, I’m glad, because I’m sure you can see that today’s content hasn’t been as meaty as some of my other entries. 🙂 I look forward to hopefully seeing some more participation with each of the questions I pose starting with tomorrow’s entry. May each of you be blessed and remember, change is good!

Peace, love, light, and joy,

Andrew Arthur Dawson

 

Hello everyone! It’s that time again. Here are the monthly questions for everyone to ponder. I hope each of you will take the time to mull them over. And of course, my own answers are listed below.

1. Have you ever had to go through a long period of pain and suffering that was out of your control, if so what was it for?
2. If you can, define what it means to you to have faith in a Higher Power?
3. What spiritual figure throughout all of time and history do you currently feel you relate the most to?
4. If you could take a spiritual pilgrimage to anywhere right now by just thinking about it, where would it be to?
5. Name one movie you’ve seen in 2016 that truly stirred your heart and soul.
6. What do you think Heaven is?
7. Name one of the most uplifting things you’ve ever done for your spirituality?
8. Name one of the most destructive things you’ve ever done to your spirituality?
9. What is your Achilles heel?
10. Name the most recent place you visited that you would deem as spiritual?

And as always, one more for good measure:

11. Name one weird but strangely entertaining thing you’ve observed lately.

My answers:

1. Yes, with my health issues I’ve been facing for the past bunch of years.
2. For me faith means living with uncertainty and trusting that my Higher Power has got it all under control.
3. Job from the Bible.
4. The tomb where Jesus emerged reborn.
5. Midnight Special.
6. A place where there are no fears and worries, no anger and hate, a place where only love exists…a love for everyone and everything.
7. Going on a 10-day silent meditation retreat in the mountains.
8. Partaking in an adulterous relationship with a married person for almost 2 years while remaining friends with their family.
9. Probably struggling with my answer to #2.
10. The Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, Ohio.
11. Watching a small ant on my kitchen floor work very hard to haul a large piece of a fallen blue cheese crumble away to its home.

Peace, love, light, and joy,

Andrew Arthur Dawson

Hello everyone! It’s that time again. Here are the monthly questions for everyone to ponder. I hope each of you will take the time to mull them over. And of course, my own answers are listed below.

1. Do you have a happy memory of Easter when growing up, if so what is it?
2. What’s your favorite Easter basket treat?
3. What do you like most about Spring?
4. What is the thing you usually do on that first really warm Spring day?
5. Do you ever take a spring break vacation and if so, where to?
6. Do you ever go to church on Easter and if so, which one?
7. Speaking of church, what is your favorite part of a service if you go to one?
8. And speaking of religion, is their a specific one you feel most called to or a specific faith you have?
9. What is your biggest concern with religion today?
10. What is your most favorite thing to plant in a garden?

And as always, one more for good measure:

11. What is one thing you want to do this Spring that you didn’t do last Spring?

My answers:

1. Waking up Easter morning and seeing bunny prints outside my bedroom door and following them all around the house until I found a huge basket filled with lots of goodies.
2. Those little chocolate rabbit eggs that almost look like rabbit pellets wrapped up in tinfoil.
3. Watching the flowers bloom on trees and especially from the bulbs in the ground.
4. Sit outside in shorts and without my shirt on and feel the sun’s warmth on my body.
5. Actually mine usually comes at the end of winter just before spring and it’s usually to the Caribbean somewhere.
6. Currently, I haven’t been going to church in a good while. At some point, I’d like to go to the Unity Church here in Toledo though and would be going there for their service if I was a regular attendee.
7. As a kid, it was the bell choir that my Mom played in. I love the sound they make in a church hall.
8. I grew up Christian, then distanced myself from it for awhile and practiced Buddhism. Now I follow the trinity again but with Buddhist practices tied in.
9. That it governs too much of our society, notably how too many still claim that God hates gay people because of what’s said in the Bible.
10. Impatience flowers in the shade, as I love to watch them grow tall and spread out.
11. Go hiking somewhere.

Peace, love, light, and joy,

Andrew Arthur Dawson