Value-Five Minute Friday

Here I am actually posting on Friday as opposed to Sunday. Gotta love days off! I hope everyone found comfort with family and/or friends yesterday. Holidays are not happy for everyone. Sometimes they are downright depressing depending on what you are facing. It brings us to wrestle with what do we hold in highest regard. There is always something to be grateful for, but what does each one of us truly

Value

It's funny how time and experience changes what we value most. Now that I realize

the hour glass may be half empty or more, it's not about he who has the most toys in 

the end wins.

In my twenties, it was hard for me to stay within a budget and out of credit card debt. 

Now I'd rather have more time with family or friends than stuff. It's hard to even think 

of a "Christmas wish list" to share with family members. I'm happy to have dinner or 

just coffee and play some games. The time will run out sooner or later. How I spend 

my time will speak for itself.

STOP

Matthew 6:21 "for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (NASB)

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One- Five Minute Friday

I love the challenge this week's prompt offers. I hope you feel the same after reading about...

ONE.....

Only opportunity

Never repeated

Each has their own

In ONE moment in time, each one of us was created with our own unique set of prints.

We have ONE life to live.  When that ONE day comes for whom the bell tolls, what will our 

ONE set of prints leave behind? What is the ONE message I will leave behind? What ONE

thing do I really want to stick with people I meet along the journey?

I only have ONE life, ONE opportunity, and ONE message.

May I keep this in the forefront everyday. May I start thinking about the ONE day I will 

leave only my ONE set of prints behind, so that I can plan backwards.

STOP

Psalm 90:12 "Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should." (TLB)

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Burden- Five Minute Friday

It's been a crazy busy time at work with the end of the marking period, while also trying to have a life outside of work. Last weekend, I missed the opportunity to respond to the prompt, so here I am catching up with this past Friday's prompt.........

Burden

It's been lifted and shared. "Many hands make light work," Mom Moms used to say. 

Many hands came through my church during my senior year of college. It was time for me to student teach, my final semester, and I had to let some of my jobs go. I couldn't keep working the twenty plus hours of work study each week in addition to my internship and taking a few classes. Almost a thousand dollar balance remained on my tuition bill. No problems or worries. My church family generously paid the bill.

This past weekend my family shared leftovers with me, so I am set for meals most of this week!

STOP

Philippians 4:19 "but my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory." (KJV)

 This is another crazy, busy week at work which doesn't leave a lot of time for me to cook and prepare meals. Long hours with meeting after meeting for parent conferences and whatever else is on the agenda can wear. Last week, I did a few days of take out, but this week I look forward to home made sweet potato chili, lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, and also a turkey wrap packed with all kinds of trimmings.

I cannot emphasize enough, where would we be with out a little or a lot of help from our family and friends? I am so thankful for their kindness and God's provision. 

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Moment-Five Minute Friday

So this week people are ruminating about a key point in their lives. It may even be more than one. For me, I could only think back to one.......

Moment....

Defining, huh? I never knew when I became friends with the girl next door what it would lead to. We used to sit on her front porch steps late at night talking. I can't remember the day we met or how. I just remember talking with her. I remember the times I witnessed she and her mom laugh and kid about all kinds of things, while her mom colored or permed her hair. I had never seen a mother and daughter get along so well and laugh while hanging out together. It was appetizing. It made me want that fun, loving family life for myself.

STOP

UGH! I hate that darn timer!

To continue, I never dreamed her family would actually become my family. I never knew my friendship with her would lead to her parents taking me in when my own parents were not able to care for me any longer. They said I could stay as long as I needed to. They asked me to go to church with them. I never knew they went to church until they invited me to join them as part of their family. One thing led to another and eventually I came to know God personally through their example of love and faith. 

I never realized until earlier this year, I CAN'T say thank you enough to the woman I now call my sister, who became my friend over thirty years ago. My life changed all because of a friendship! 

Love you, my sister and my friend!

Psalm 139:16 "Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them." (NASB)

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Who-Five Minute Friday on Sunday

I was brought back to a song by Margaret Becker from my early college days. It's a powerful thought...

Who

Who am I that He called me by name?

He who thought thoughts beyond what I can dream

He who's lead me safely moving mountains in and out of way

He neither slumber nor sleeps, He who holds you and me

Who am I Jesus?

Not knowing how, when, or why

I am humbled in this place.

In Fiddler on the Roof, one asked, "Why me?"

Not looking or asking for anything more than a break

Who are we to the King who sits on the throne, 

changing and writing history?

STOP

John 10:27-28 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me and I give eternal life to them and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of my My hand." (NASB)

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