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This week’s FMF writing prompt link-up is: HOLD
If there’s one thing that 2020 seems to be trying to teach me, it’s to hold my plans loosely. You’d think after almost 40 years of life I would’ve figured it out by now, but I still struggle with changes to The Plan. And by The Plan, I mean My Plan.
How many times have I quoted verses to myself like Proverbs 16:9, “In his hearts a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps”? And yet still I need reminding.
This year has been filled with changed plans, postponed plans, and canceled plans. It’s been full of hopes deferred and sickened hearts.
Yet in the midst of it all, I am reminded that as I seek to hold plans loosely, the more important thing is that I remain held by Him. And the Lord never holds His children loosely. We are firm and safe in His grip, never to be let go. Being held by Christ is infinitely better than any earthly plan I could make for myself.
Praise God that even though our hopes and plans for this life may change, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amen?
Before you go, here’s a song by Natalie Grant that has been a great encouragement to me over the years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ii7KcYeEDA
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Join the link-up with your own five minute freewrite below, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:
Life done shreded all my plans
when cancer done let rip,
by I’m a muley-stubborn man,
and won’t give up my grip,
’cause quitters never really win,
and losers make excuse,
so the thought will not begin
to turn that death-hold loose.
Maybe I’m gol-durn fool,
hard-headed box o’ rocks,
and maybe call for ridicule
from anything that talks,
but I don’t care and I don’t mind,
’cause it’s my pot o’ gold to find.
I haven’t heard this Natalie Grant song in a long time! Yes, we need to learn that we are held by Christ in the difficult moments, and for many of us this year has been filled with them. I
Your word prompts don’t always make me think of songs, but this week my mind went immediately to Wilson Phillips’ “Hold On For One More Day.” Sometimes we just gotta keep going until we’ve moved past it.
Amen! We are tightly held, even while we need to learn to hold loosely. What a conundrum!
Oh my tight fisted grip is ever so slowly loosening and it’s taken me 61 years!!! Thanks for this encouragement Kate!
Love this post. Especially the reminder that ” the Lord never holds His children loosely. We are firm and safe in His grip, never to be let go.”