Category: Question For The Day

These entries focus on spiritual questions to ponder for the day. Some may be fun, some may be serious, and some may just really lead you to think about them for a while.

February’s Questions For You To Ponder (Love Themed!)

Hello everyone! It’s time for my monthly questions for everyone to ponder. It’s been a strange winter so far with very little snow here in Toledo, OH. Just the other day in fact, it was 50 degrees, in February, can you believe it? Anyway, I’m doing a love themed set of questions this month because of Valentine’s Day so as always, I hope each of you will take the time to mull them over. And of course, my own answers are listed below.

  1. What do you like most about Valentine’s Day?
  2. What do you like least about Valentine’s Day?
  3. If you could receive ANY gift on Valentine’s Day, what would it be?
  4. What is your definition of true love?
  5. Who was your first true love in life?
  6. What is the biggest relationship heartache you’ve ever experienced so far in life?
  7. What’s the first sign you usually experience when you start falling for someone?
  8. What’s the biggest mistake you feel like you’ve ever made due to loving someone?
  9. Name one non-intimate action you would do for someone you are in love with that you probably wouldn’t do for someone you’re not?
  10. Who do you feel the words “I love you” should be meant for?

And as always, one more for good measure:

  1. What’s the first song that comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘love’?

My answers:

  1. Seeing so many people try to spread love.
  2. Seeing so many people believe that love comes from something that costs money.
  3. A huge hug from God, Jesus, or one of his divine messengers.
  4. Loving someone just as they are, with no expectation’s that they need to change a single thing about themselves, and desiring to give your acts of love to them with no conditions.
  5. Rob Vanhellemont Jr.
  6. My breakup with Jerry Prewitt.
  7. Having trouble imagining spending my life without them by my side.
  8. Loaning $5000 or buying a bed and breakfast.
  9. Attempt to cook a meal for them.
  10. Everyone.
  11. Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Gotta To Do With It?”

Peace, love, light, and joy,

Andrew Arthur Dawson

January’s Questions For You To Ponder (Winter Themed!)

Hello everyone! I decided it was time to do my monthly questions for everyone to ponder. I really hope everyone made it through the holiday season ok and is successfully navigating through these next few cold winter months, that is unless you are currently living in a warm climate right now. 🙂 With that being said, I’m doing a winter theme this month so hopefully each of you will take the time to mull them over, and as always, my own answers are listed below.

  1. What is your most favorite winter memory?
  2. What is your least favorite winter memory?
  3. If you could spend the rest of the winter months anywhere in the world, where would it be?
  4. What type of drink do you enjoy the most during the cold winter months?
  5. What is your favorite thing to eat during the cold winter months?
  6. What do you miss the most doing during the winter?
  7. What do you do the most to occupy your free time during the winter?
  8. What is the most amount of snow you’ve ever seen come down during a single storm?
  9. What is your most favorite kind of soup to consume during a cold day in the winter?
  10. If you were to be snowed in for a few days during a big storm with one person still alive, who would you like it to be?

And as always, one more for good measure:

  1. Is there a book you are planning or currently reading during this winter?

My answers:

  1. When so much snow fell one winter as a kid, we made tunnels through the front yard that were like crystal caverns.
  2. Driving through a huge blizzard from Washington D.C. to Poughkeepsie and sliding off the highway into a traffic sign.
  3. Any island in the Caribbean.
  4. Dark Hot Chocolate.
  5. My own oatmeal concoction that’s made with raisins, natural peanut butter, vanilla soy milk, coconut, banana, and blueberries.
  6. Sitting outside in the sun in my backyard.
  7. Watch movies, write, do puzzles.
  8. Somewhere around 3 feet when I lived in Fairfax, VA.
  9. Beer Cheddar Cheese Soup.
  10. My partner of course. If not him, my best friend Cedric.
  11. Hinds’ Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard.

Peace, love, light, and joy,

Andrew Arthur Dawson

December’s Questions For You To Ponder (Holiday Themed!)

It’s time for another batch of questions for everyone to ponder. 🙂 This time I decided to utilize a Christmas and New Year’s theme! And while I know most of these aren’t necessarily “spiritual”, I thought it might be fun to ask them nonetheless. I hope you will continue to take some time to mull them each over, and as always, my own answers are listed below.

  1. How do you normally spend your Christmas Eve?
  2. What is your favorite Christmas Eve memory?
  3. How do you normally spend your Christmas Day?
  4. What is your favorite Christmas Day memory?
  5. If you could have one person, alive or deceased, join you for this year’s entire Christmas Day, who would it be?
  6. How do you normally spend your New Year’s Eve?
  7. What is your favorite New Year’s Eve memory?
  8. Have you ever made a New Year’s resolution and kept it, if so what was it?
  9. How do you normally spend your New Year’s Day?
  10. What is your favorite New Year’s Day memory?

And one more for good measure as always:

  1. What does Christmas mean to you overall?

My answers:

  1. Growing up it was having Mexican Tamale Casserole and singing Christmas carols. Today it’s usually going out to dinner somewhere and maybe watching a movie.
  2. Playing Christmas carols on the piano while everyone sang the songs.
  3. Growing up it was having an egg casserole in the morning, opening stockings, then presents, then playing with my new toys, and then having a huge turkey feast. This year my partner is making a turkey and ham dinner, my friend Cedric from Boston will be here visiting, and then we’ll be making the family rounds.
  4. Being surprised with a sudden trip to the airport and flying to Los Angeles, California.
  5. My mother or father.
  6. Growing up it was having hors d’oeuvres and watching the ball come down in Times Square on Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve. Today it will most likely be playing cards or games with a friend or two somewhere and then watching the ball come down in Times Squre.
  7. I can’t honestly say I have one that stands out.
  8. None of my New Year’s Resolutions have ever lasted very long.
  9. Watching television, going to the movie theater, or just lounging around.
  10. I can’t honestly say I have one that stands out here either.
  11. This answer has changed so greatly for me over the years. I guess I’d have to say that these days it means just being around those I truly love and who truly love me unconditionally because that’s what the love of Christ is to me…unconditional love.

Peace, love, light, and joy,

Andrew Arthur Dawson