Focus Upward
I'm a daughter of the King of Kings, wife, and mother of 2 lovely young adult daughters. Focusing upward on Jesus.
Commit
Five Minute Friday Challenge
I was thinking the other day that I need to get back to my weekly writing on the Five Minute Friday prompt and wouldn't you know, this week's prompt is perfect! The word of the week is "commit". Commit means "to carry into action deliberately, to pledge or assign to some particular course, to entrust, to record for . . .
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Determine
Five Minute Friday Challenge
Determine - "to settle or decide by choice of alternatives or possibilities." Some people like to determine which way is best, but as a recovering perfectionist, Enneagram 1 (wing 9); alternatives can be crippling. What if I'm wrong? What if it doesn't work out or I don't like it? What happens if it's not perfect? That's why I love . . .
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Behold
Five Minute Friday Challenge
"...Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy..." (Luke 2:10, NKJV) Behold means to gaze. What were the shepherds thinking when they beheld the bright star and heard the angels? I bet it was loud and glorious and they knew they needed to go find the baby.
What were Mary and Joseph thinking as they . . .
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November Share Four Somethings
and Five Minute Friday Challenge
Nourish means to sustain with food; to supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth; to cherish, to strengthen, build up or promote.
Hide
Five Minute Friday Challenge
When I was little, I would climb on my bed, get under my covers and proclaim to my parents I was hiding and to come and find me. They would search and call for me, pretending they didn't know where I was. All along they could see the big lump in my bed, so they knew where I was, but I didn't know that, because I couldn't see them. Then . . .
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Prayer
Five Minute Friday Challenge
From my journal: Jesus, some days it seems that I take prayer too casually, do I need to be more formal with my prayers? Then I remember that we need to come to You as children. They don't worry about how they come across or if the question or request is worded properly. They just ask. May I have more child-like faith and . . .
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Morning
Five Minute Friday Challenge & Day 29 of Write 31 Days 2021
I love morning...not the getting up and going to work part, but the quiet and the stillness. I enjoy my cup of coffee, read God's Word and bask in the stillness before my day begins. It feels like a clean slate before me. I can more easily hear God's voice because my mind is less cluttered.
Mark records that "Before daybreak . . .
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