She doesn't know me, but I read every post of her blog: www.lisajobaker.com. She is a wife, a mom, a woman who loves Jesus and isn't afraid to admit that her life isn't all flowers and butterflies. Her words inspire and encourage and help me to press on in the days when I am certain I am just a frame of a woman making it through life.
Each Friday, she challenges women to to write fearless for 5 minutes. No editing, no fretting. Spontaneous writing to be posted to blogs all over the world. And women write comments or messages and encourage each other through this crazy life with all of its ups and downs.
This is my first one.
Here are the rules from Lisa Jo Baker:
- Check what
the prompt is on my blog.
- Write a
post in only five minutes on that topic on your blog.
- {And if
you don’t have a blog, no worries! Just leave
your writing as a comment on my post}
- Link over
here and invite friends to join in.
- Select the
permalink to your post {so not your blog url www.lisajobaker.com but your post
url www.lisajobaker.com/2012/07/five-minute-friday-2/
}
- Using the
blue linky tool at the bottom of my Five Minute Friday post enter your
link.
- It will
also walk you through selecting which photo you want to show up in the
linky.
- Your post
will show up in our Five Minute Friday linky.
- Be sure and encourage the person who linked up before you!
Ready. Go!
So close. So close to the end of the school year. To summer.
To Tyler coming back home. It has been a long week lying lonely in my bed
missing my other half. But he has had the opportunity to go and make disciples
and live out the will of God in Nicaragua. How can I be lonely when I know he
is serving and He is working. I lie in my bed instead and imagine the stories
he will tell, of what God has done through those people in the mountains and
those people climbing the mountains to tell them the Great Story.
So close. How close we get to God when we spend time in
lonely places. Sometimes separating from people opens time holes in our lives for
God to fill. When people fill all of our time we become dependent on those
people and not on Him. This week, I have felt the closeness of God. In the
still of my home with a candle lit and my journal open. In my sleep filled with
peace instead of worry. He is always close to me, no matter how far away I may
feel. It is when I am aware of His presence and make time holes for Him that we
are close again.
Stop.
