It has been a long long time since I have joined in on a Five Minute Friday writing prompt. I’m not going to get into the whys today. I am simply going to write and invite you to do the same. Five Minute Friday is a wonderful opportunity to stretch your writing muscle for five minutes and encourage some great folks who are doing the same. At the helm is Kate Motaung.
This week’s prompt is the word: Offer
Let’s Go!
Writing this today is my actual offering to God. I offer these words ahead not knowing what is going to pour out but I’m excited and that’s a start.
I have wanted to write all of my life. When I was a little girl I wrote with pictures and would explain the stories to my mom as she looked on. As I grasped words, I began to write down stories. When I was a teen I loved walking the park where my grandmother lived and I would literally tell myself stories the whole time. I was in love with words.
I also am a person who is swayed. Swayed by the opinions or lack of from others. Swayed by the wormy little voice that tries to sneak into my ear the one that tells me to stop. Tells me there is no point. There is nothing new under the sun and frankly I am a day late and a dollar short because I let feelings pull me away. Feelings are the real culprit that paused my fingers. Feelings that I could not fit this passion of mine in and was not meant to because fitting it in was hard. Life was tough and time was too precious and my life too full.
BUT GOD…
God reminded me again of my times in the park, my scratching pictures on paper and my joy in the journey. My favorite part of writing was the creating. I loved explaining the pictures to my mother but it was creating the story that made my heart sore. I had an audience of one in the park as I walked and told myself stories, and I was completely content.
He reminded me that this love of story and of words are a gift from Him. God reminded me that my writing was my working it all out as an offering to Him. He was my audience and He was enough. He was more than enough and still I was there too. I also could enjoy the ride again. I could step forward and do and be and not expect anything but to regain what I had lost when I searched for what I thought or felt I needed from faces I never saw.
STOP
After my 5 –
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
I’m excited about just doing again. I am grateful for places like FMF that give us all and opportunity to do what we do to the glory of the One who created us. Today I really do feel God smile.
If you want to join in FMF, please do. You will be glad you did. I am.
I can so relate to everything you wrote here. It is difficult to see that we need not have an audience (on earth with us) for our words to be heard and to be meaningful. Keep writing! Keep telling those stories!
Thank you Sue. What a blessing you are. 🙂
It’s good to see you at FMF again, Kelly! I’ve missed you and your words. I’m glad you’re writing again!
Hello Lesley! I am glad to be back. I was totally freaking out with this prompt. God has really been doing a work in my heart and life.
He is so gracious! Thank you for visiting. I appreciate you so much!
Oh yes… I know for me –a lot of the online world of blogging and writing and building of platforms can be too much. I write because He asked me to… and selfishly because as I write, He teaches me and I am able to process and I am better for it –even if no one else is! So glad you are back!
Thank you Karrilee. You are so amazing. Even away I always read your newsletters which totally lift me up. Thanks for coming over today.
You are always a wild encourager and great blessing.
Welcome back, Kelly. I am thankful that you are here again. I did not know how much I missed you until I read your comment on my post, and then read your post.
Oh Esther thank you. That means so much to me.
It’s great to read you again and it was lovely to hear how you grew up in your writing. It’s lovely when you arrive at the point of realising you don’t need to have an audience of people to accept what you write. It only matters to God. I find it heart warming though that you shared your stories with your mother and she warmly listened to you. I never had that type of relationship with mine and was never encouraged in my creativity. It took me a while to (and I’m still learning) understand I don’t need anyone else’s appreciation. Thank you for sharing. Visiting you from the FMF community.
Oh Lynne you are so dear and beautiful. I am so grateful for your visit. I do appreciate those memories with my mom. I do have to admit though, the creative side was supported when it was me as a kid. My mom, God bless her, really wanted me to reach for more substantial career goals as I got older. Each one God kind of redirected. 🙂 Thank you so much for visiting me.