Saturday, September 23, 2017



Accept the Truth and the Truth with Set Your Free


This is a Five Minute Friday "word of the week" post. The word this week is Accept.

I've had a struggle with pride for years. I go round and round with it, some days I can set is aside but on others it just has me. It brings pain, anxiety, and a multitude of other emotions that control me...until I finally realize that it's back again. 

I'm learning to recognize it sooner than I used to, but not soon enough. I recover quicker, but I wish I would have to recover at all.

I've accepted that I have a pride problem. I've accepted that it's something God hates, even though he loves me. I've accepted that I need His help to change and that I have to participate in the work of it.

I've accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

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Friday, September 8, 2017

Time to punch in!

This is a Five Minute Friday post and the word this week is Work. FMF is a website for writers, we write on the word of the week for five minutes and post without editing.
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I can’t wait to retire…hmmm….I know I’m not supposed to say that. I am so grateful for my job, but what a challenge! Maybe that’s why God put me there. I have to remember that HE PUT ME THERE FOR A REASON, right? I’m coming to realize that overcoming my pride problem might just be one of the reasons. Another is idolatry. You see, for years all I did was work hard, work long hours, and just work. My job was my focus.

I went to school full time to complete a BBA and then on to an MBA, all while working full time and with a toddler who turned into a second grader before I was done. I'm not complaining. Getting a degree was always my plan, but that took a left turn in my senior year of high school. God still provided it through my work. 

All that time away from family for the job and school, it was all about overcoming that left turn. In the effort I made the job too important. Now I have to work hard not to put the job first. I consciously work to put God first, and in Him my reward. It’s not in anything I can do on my own.

I am grateful for the education I never could have attained on my own, or by working for a different employer. I’m grateful for the income my work provides for my family, but I’m choosing to put God first today. I’m choosing to focus on the Him, not to be prideful over what I’ve accomplished because, guess what, I could only do it through Him. I'm just not that smart. He is accomplishing something in me for his good pleasure. 

I choose that work, His work. I pray it comes in the form of words I write and others read, and maybe even pay for someday. If that doesn’t happen, I will still grateful for the work he provides.

My five minutes are up. Time to punch out!

Friday, September 1, 2017

Neighbors - Ya gotta love 'em!

This is a Five Minute Friday Post - FMF is a website for writers, we write on the word of the week for five minutes and post without editing. It's good practice!
The word this week is Neighbor

Proverbs 3:27-28
27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in you power to do it. 
28 Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and com back, and tomorrow I will give it," when you have it with you. 
29 Do not devise harm against your neighbor, while he lives securely beside you.

We do have to love them, but I confess that I'm not always successful. Oh, it isn't that I intentionally devise harm against them, but I don't intentionally love them either. My husband, doesn't know it, but he is the complete opposite. He seeks to help them, to love them. He is intentional about it. 

This morning in my devotional time I read this passage from Proverbs, then I found Neighbor as the word week. God works that way, giving me what I need when I need it. Verse 27 says "Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in you power to do it." Aren't we called, then, to love our neighbors intentionally? He doesn't withhold His love from us, nor should we from our others. 

So, how do I do that? Well, it's got to be more than sharing the passing wave as I come and go from work. I'm going to rely on God to, again, provide what I need. What I should notice and to what He wants me to pay attention. 
Today I will seek to be intentional, to model Jesus and the husband God gave me for life. I will seek to love my neighbors.

That's my five minutes this week.

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