Category: Five Minute Friday

Carry.  That is the prompt for today’s Five Minute Friday.  If you are not familiar with it, Five Minute Friday is a weekly link-up as well as an exercise of writing for five minutes without overthinking and/or editing.  Not. overthinking is often more of a challenging exercise for me than…

Happy Friday friends!  It has been a good week.  I say that simply to praise the Lord.  I need to mindfully praise Him so much more.  Truthfully, my week started off much the same as the previous two/three/six weeks.  Despite my best efforts, winter has lately been getting the best…

Maybe I’m dating myself…but did your pediatrician use a milestones chart during your babies’ first year of check-ups?  Ours was included in a small booklet that I still have tucked away.  During those first twelve months of well visits, the doctor not only logged my little one’s weight and length…

We are not a military family.  However, living within the shadow of the Pentagon, we definitely live in a military community.  Many – if not the majority – of my neighbors, and/or those I interact with daily are connected with one of the military branches.  And ask any group of…

I’m at a certain season of life.  Not necessarily a certain age, although I am facing another “milestone” year in the coming months.  But, more appropriately, that my life is seasoned.  Matured.  And while it is true that we are always learning, I hope what I have already experienced along…

Expectations.  There are plenty of expectations all year long – but turn the calendar to December and the expectations automatically go to a whole new level.  Our own expectations.  Those of family and friends.  Even co-workers, neighbors and that bell-ringer giving his time who certainly expects you to give in…

It is no secret that I enjoy mornings.  A morning person through and through, not only do I most enjoy the first hours of the day, but I am also the most enjoyable during those first few hours.  Just sayin.  It is also when I am most productive, most creative,…

I am not a saver.  I am not a minimalist either – not even close.  I do not get rid of things simply in order to have less, but I also do not hold onto things.  Pack them and/or store things away.  I used to convince myself that I was…

There was a time – granted, it has been a while – when I seriously, and enthusiastically, considered myself a “city girl.”  The reality was (and is) I am as suburban as they come.  Neither city nor country.  I imagined having to love critters and other creatures great and small…

Friday.  And that means Five Minute Friday – a weekly linkup and writing exercise that I always enjoy.  I enjoy the free-style writing – and the rather quick thinking over a prompt as I tend to be an extreme overthinker – and I enjoy the community of writers.  I have…

Come out from among them is a thought taken directly from scripture.  It is often quoted from the New Testament but is a principle found throughout both the old and the new testaments.  The principle of God’s people separating themselves from the world – from its sin and its sinful…

I once read “A truth about the Lord is not truly ours until He works it into our daily life.”  I wish I had said it myself but, nonetheless, I am glad to have the truth of that statement tucked away in my heart.  I love Bible studies and I…