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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: MUSIC
My husband and I like to take walks together, and living in West Michigan, there are only so many months in the year during which it is pleasant to do so. (I know, I know, some may think the dead of winter is a perfect time for a leisurely stroll.)
The other night we drove down the road to a park with a paved path around a lake. As we started walking, one of the first sounds to catch my attention were some frogs that I couldn’t see. The noises they made sounded just like the single pluck of a guitar string. I would try to spell the sound for you, but you’ll just have to imagine it.
As I tuned my ear for the noise, my ears were filled with the call of multiple birds, the chirping of insects, the soft rustle of leaves in the wind. I tried to ignore the rhythmic, muffled squeak of my flip flops as we circled the lake.
Such a magnificent symphony of music the Lord has created, I thought to myself as we strolled in the evening breeze, the sun dipping below the tree line.
If only I quieted myself more often to hear the sounds He has provided for me to enjoy, and to acknowledge His hand and His presence in the midst of His creation.
STOP.
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Join the FMF writing prompt link-up below with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, MUSIC, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
In the night I hear it best,
it sounds like songs of distant lands,
it sounds like knights upon a quest,
the Music of the Fans.
It’s always just beneath the place
in which I make out words or tune,
but in that there is a grace,
for I can ponder that the moon
has given up a symphony
from its highlands and its rilles,
one crossing frozen lava-sea,
and then ascending from the hills,
composed upon Creation’s birth,
God’s gift to those confined to Earth.
Three minutes flat of weirdness. OK.
One can hear music in the interference pattern of running fans, caught up from FM transmissions.
Proverbs 13:12 says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”
As I read and reflect on this Bible verse I can’t help but think on times when I had a hope deferred. Sad times indeed, but they passed. The greater Joy is knowing Jesus is my Hope and access to Him is never deferred. He IS our fulfilled Tree of Life!
Praise & thank you Jesus!
A couple weeks ago we were at a pond where the frogs were singing quite loudly. We thought they sounded like the “guitars” we used to make from empty tissue boxes and rubber bands!
We are blessed to be surrounded by Nature too where we live. The sounds and sighting of birds is truly beautiful!