Five Minute Friday: Choose

Ok, Lord, I get it.

It’s time to make a choice and I will. But  you know what Lord?  That choosing thing is easier said than done  and as far as I’m concerned, free will is highly overrated. 

You say in the word, “I set before you this day, life and death – choose life.” Ok, good point. But which one is life for me? Both situations work, the pros and cons of both are equals for the most part. So how do I choose when my heart  cries out for both? Which do I pick? Am I thinking too much, Lord? Maybe so. But you’re right. It’s past time to choose and I will.  Just tell me what the right answer is and I’ll choose it. 

Click on the picture to view my favorite movie scene about having too many choices. Robin Williams playing a Russian defector trying to buy coffee from Moscow on the Hudson.

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Joining with the  Five Minute Friday community sponsored by Lisa-Jo Baker. On each Friday, Lisa-Jo posts a one word prompt and for five minutes we join together in an international community to write what the prompt brings to mind. No rewrite, no editing just letting the words flow from our hearts.
 

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Five Minute Friday

Weekend Worship: Write What You See

Write what you see.
Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run.
This vision is a witness pointing to what’s coming.
It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie.
If it seems slow in coming, wait.

It’s on its way. 

It will come right on time.

                Habakkuk 2 vs 2-3 (msg)

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and Janis Cox at Sunday Stillness
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Five Minute Friday: small

I feel small sometimes, Lord. 

Small, in my place in the universe,  small in the face of the inevitable march of time.  Small, in the face of the vision you have given me. When younger,  I thought I would grow into it and it would feel less unwieldy to carry. But instead over time, it feels bigger and  I feel smaller still. My strength fades, my understanding as well. Is there still enough time, Lord to do what you’ve called me to do? Can I do these things, in the time left for me? Or have I misunderstood your meaning, your direction all this time? My understanding is so small in the presence of your plan for my life. Sometimes, O Lord, I feel very, very small. 

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Joining with the  Five Minute Friday community sponsored by Lisa-Jo Baker. On each Friday, Lisa-Jo posts a one word prompt and for five minutes we join together in an international community to write what the prompt brings to mind. No rewrite, no editing just letting the words flow from our hearts.
 

Today's prompt was small. Come join us.

Five Minute Friday

Happy Birthday to Me

Today is my birthday.  

Happy Birthday to me. 

Every birthday I can remember, I would wake up with those being the first thoughts in my mind. It was the same this morning. For a few brief moments I felt like the little pigtailed girl I once was, bouncing up and down gleefully because this was her special day. The little girl who told everyone she ran into that it was HER birthday. She makes me smile.  She was so joyful, so gleeful over her day. She was excited and happy and bouncing and giggling. No worries on her birthday. Outside of Christmas, for her it was the best day ever.  I remember that little girl with fondness. God bless that little girl. I’m glad to know that somewhere inside she’s still there.

Click here  for a picture of that little girl.

Weekend Worship: You Are There

Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, 

you are there;    

if I make my bed in the depths, 

you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast.
- Psalm 139 vs 7-10

 Worshiping with Barbie at The Weekend Brew,  Deidra Riggs and The Sunday Community, 
and Janis Cox at Sunday Stillness
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Weekend Worship: Serenity Prayer (Original)

Original Serenity Prayer 

God, give me grace to accept with serenity

the things that cannot be changed,

Courage to change the things

which should be changed,

and the Wisdom to distinguish

the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,

Enjoying one moment at a time,

Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,

Taking, as Jesus did,

This sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it,

Trusting that You will make all things right,

If I surrender to Your will,

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

                    Reinhold Niebuhr      

               Written 1941- First published 1951

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Weekend Worship: A Way In The Wilderness

 

Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.

See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness    

 and streams in the wasteland.

- Isaiah 43: 18-19

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