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I could not believe when I looked at my calendar that next week Friday will be September 1st. How can it be?
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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: REPLACE
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.Â
Shortly after we adopted our oldest son when he was six years old, he was playing in the house with a beach ball. I didn’t expect the beach ball to be able to do much damage so I let him play. Of course, not five minutes later, I watched as the ball made contact with an ostrich egg lamp my mom had bought for me when she visited Cape Town. My eyes followed the lamp as it tilted, tipped, and fell to the ground. I’d heard that ostrich eggs were quite durable and did not break easily. Whoever told me that was mistaken. This one cracked into several pieces and lay broken on the floor.
I realized in that moment that I had a choice to make. My reaction to the broken lamp would speak volumes to our newly adopted son who was waiting to see what would happen next. Would I yell? Would I punish him? Even though I was really disappointed about losing the lamp, the Lord helped me to remember that I couldn’t take it with me to heaven.
I knew he didn’t do it on purpose, so I cleaned up the pieces and threw them away.
I never found a similar lamp to replace the one I lost.
STOP.
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Every thing can be replaced,
nothing doesn’t have a price,
except what’s so hard to have faced,
Christ’s once and present sacrifice,
the gift that only He could give,
the benison that none could sell
that lifts us up and lets us live
far above the pit of hell.
But so many think there are
other roads and other gates,
that they can worship calf and star
and nonetheless escape the fates
that they’ve purchased, open -eyed,
not knowing they’ve already died.
Four minutes with a brief interruption.
That’s a beautiful response Kate. Thank you for sharing.
Replace -Every thing can be replaced but not a person life.I find out the other day that we lost another one of are classmates to Cancer. They are.ready celebrate her life
I find this out at
My 40th class reunion. I have decided to keep up with my class mates
No one can replace family
No one can replace God in my life
I. Live for God and I will do watch the Lord lead me to do
This rings true this week at our house. Our 14 year old son ran his high powered RC car into his glass faced closet….web cracked! I showed grace and forgiveness to him becuase it was an accident, but come on running a car indoors?! He loves to push boundaries, and he saw a consequence of it this week. I’m planning to have him wait til he has the money and pay to replace the door/mirror. We like to teach our kids to own their mistakes. Sorry your ostrich egg broke!
Jennifer