Question-A Very Late Five Minute Friday!

This is for last Friday's prompt on the 21st. I'm just in time before a new one tomorrow. What can I say except the last two weeks of school are really crazy! I've also been looking to buy a home which prompted my response to last week's encouragement.....

Question..........

Some don't know what to ask. I'm learning I need to ask a lot before making a BIG investment. I'm learning about wells, septic, roofs, and furnaces. I'm learning all that glitters is NOT gold.

QUESTION!

What a powerful tool and action. It can save us a lot of heartache and money in the end. Wisdom to guide us into and onto a path of life.

What else can I say? Everyone needs to do their homework. It's something I hope to instill in my students, what to ask and when.

Need to know!

STOP

Proverbs 3:13 " How blessed is the man who finds wisdom And the man who gains understanding." (NASB)

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Goal- Five Minute Friday

Less than ten days to go until summer vacation. The list is so long for things to do before then, but I was led to write about something more challenging then just meeting the end of the school year's goals. 

Some, if not all, will invariably wonder when our final appointment is and under what circumstances. I was challenged by my friend's grandmother's legacy of faith to view this as something we should not try to control. What's you goal?

Goal....

Would you make it your goal to end your life your way, on your terms, and in your own time if diagnosed with an incurable, debilitating disease?

I've often thought I would. After all, who wants to suffer without an immediate end in sight and excruciatingly? NO ONE!

Tonight I went to the service of a friend's loved one who planned for sometime to do just that because she was diagnosed with MS forty five years ago. She kept drugs in a secure place to reach for when she had had enough.

Yet as time went on and she grew stronger in her faith, she got rid of the drugs and acknowledged her times were in God's hands.

STOP

Matthew 28:20 "teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (NASB)

I was inspired by the life of my friend's grandmother tonight. She lived many years beyond what doctors anticipated. Her children and grandchildren shared how she continued to do everything she could for as long as she could. She always had a smile. She was anything BUT bitter and angry. She lived a full life and gave glory to God in and through her suffering. We celebrate the newness of life and vitality she now enjoys for all eternity.

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Well-A Late Five Minute Friday

So it's the end of the school year with less than 15 days to go. Thus here I am posting late for last Friday's prompt. So many directions to go with this one. What does it mean to you?

Well......

"We know the worth of water when the well is dry." the plaque read.

I think of the overabundance we enjoy as believers who hold to faith in Christ.

I think of the privilege I enjoyed for all four years of gathering daily in chapel at a Christian college.

I think of that well spring of truth and life that was presented to me.

I think of working in a secular environment where fellow believers are few and far between.

I think of the freedoms we all enjoy as people of different faiths in America.

Will it always be?

STOP

John 6:68 "Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life." (NASB)

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Name- Five Minute Friday

I'm back! I actually missed last week to celebrate a long weekend visiting my Aunt. Returning to work on Tuesday and getting back into the swing of things left little to no time for last week's prompt "Culture." It's actually the first one I've missed in I don't know how long. So here I am with this week's new prompt.......

Name....

Power in it. Good or bad. If someone is called "Stupid" over and over, how that can kill. BUT if someone is called "friend", "daughter", anything positive, it lifts up and empowers.

I love that God saw to it to change many people's names. He saw something different and called into being what was lacking. He gave hope to where none had been.

Abram became Abraham, the father of many, and Sarai, Sarah.

Jacob, a deceiver became Israel, one who prevailed with God.

And then Simeon became Peter (Petra), the rock.

God knew what He was doing.

STOP

Revelation 2:17 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows, but he who receives it." (NASB)

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