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This week’s Five Minute Friday writing prompt is: ASSUME

 

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Setting a timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.

 

I recently became part of a new-to-me community, a community that has been established for a while but I only recently joined. Coming in from the outside, it has taken a while for me to figure out who’s who and what’s what. And I’ve realized (the hard way) that I have made a number of assumptions based on various factors and stereotypes that have been completely incorrect.

As I’ve started to get to know people in this community a bit better, I’ve discovered that those individuals who look on the outside to “have it all together,” often have endured incredibly difficult hardships and providences. Those who look as if they have “picture perfect” lives have had anything but once you get past the surface.

Some have lost children. Others have loved ones in jail. Some have endured abuse. Others deal with chronic pain.

As I’ve listened to stories that have deepened my compassion and empathy, this quote has frequently come to mind:

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

I have assumed, and I have been wrong.

I’ve forgotten that everyone is fighting a battle — sometimes visible, and always invisible.

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” ~ Ephesians 6:12, ESV

So let’s be kind, and let’s link arms and fight the battle together.

 

STOP.

 

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