Joining with Five Minute Friday
sponsored by Lisa-Jo Baker. On each Friday, Lisa-Jo posts a one word prompt and
for five minutes we join together as 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 is Fight.
I know the fight confuses them and sometimes hurts them,
sometimes deeply. They turn away from it, denying it, refusing it and she is
left alone as she has demanded. But I wade into the fight because I understand it. I fight that
same fight. I learned how from her. I know she is fighting to retain herself, to
hold on to the last bits of her conscious self as it all slips away. Yes, she
is angry, no she doesn’t want any help but pushing past, I help anyway because
that’s what love does. That's what she taught me. Love jumps into the fight with you, helps you, protects
you, even when you fight against the help, the protection. She doesn’t realize that I am not the
enemy but that’s ok. I know. God knows. And because she taught me about God I
know that one day when she is with Him, she will know too.
Every New Year brings with it the promise of being able to start anew and like everyone else, I look forward to the opportunity to begin again. Towards the end of each year, I take time to seek the Lord for direction
for the upcoming new year and usually I receive
the impression of a word or a phrase which will point me in a specific direction. The word for 2014 was Recapture.
recapture: to catch again someone or
something that has escaped; to gain control again of a
place or position again after losing it; to experience again or bring
back a feeling, quality, or situation
Recapture: the opportunity to begin again. The meaning of the word speaks of being able to ‘gain control again’ of things I’ve
lost or given away either.
A chance to bring to bear what I’ve learned in maturity in past situations I wish I
had handled differently. It's going to be interesting and exciting to see how recapture plays out for me in 2014.
If you had the opportunity what would you begin again in the upcoming year? Is there any thing that you would like to Recapture in 2014? Maybe you can. Let's talk about it.
