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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: DEDICATE
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.Â
We all know it takes dedication to reach a goal.
My youngest son will be seventeen in two months (say what?!), and for the past year or so he has gotten quite serious about his exercise regimen.
During soccer season in the fall, he would actually get up at 5:00 in the morning of his own accord so he could go to the gym before school, then have a full day of classes before another two hours of intense soccer practice in the evenings.
Now that soccer season is over, he goes to the gym five or six days a week for at least two hours at a time.
He had specific goals in mind regarding his health and how much weight he wanted to be able to bench press and all those other things I don’t know about, and after several months of regular discipline and dedication, he has definitely seen the results.
I watch the way he is dedicated to his routine and I ask myself: What am I dedicated to? What am I dedicating my time to?
I was recently blessed by a weekend away to work on my personal writing. My goal for the weekend was to complete a book proposal I had been working on, and I did it! With God’s help, I finished the proposal. But it wouldn’t have happened without a conscious decision to dedicate my time and attention toward that project.
What about you? What have you dedicated your time and attention to, and is it a worthy goal?
May the Lord help us to ultimately dedicate ourselves — wholeheartedly — to Him and His service.
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Sakura time
is God’s rededication
of His heart to the world.
Dedicate! There’s a word. The first thing that comes to mind is dedicating a child to the Lord (instead of christening), or rather thanking God for the privilege and blessing of being parents and committing that small life to Him. Asking and trusting for wisdom to be up to the task. Not that any of us are able in and of ourselves, fallen humans that we are.
It seems I’ve digressed a bit from ‘dedicate’. Digression might be the opposite of dedication? In the sense that dedicate has the meaning of devoting to some purpose and ‘ring fencing’ time and energy for the doing of it.
Dedication. Well, I am reminded of Roy Castle (a Christian himself) singing ‘Dedication’s what you need….’ The theme tune for ‘Record Breakers’, a British TV programme for children many years ago.
One line of the song was ‘if you wanna be the best, if you wanna beat the rest, dedication’s what you need’…..true in competitive sport or the pursuit of excellence in any field.
But for me, for any believer I think, when I think of dedication, I think of faithfulness, trust, walking before God and not man, walking in the light. No strife, but rather an acknowledgement that, just like an infant being nurtured and loved and disciplined by his or her parents, I too am a child. A child of my heavenly Father. He has it all in hand.
Lord I am yours, set apart for you. I rest in that truth.
Your son shows much dedication! Amen to your last statement! May we all dedicate our lives to our loving Lord. I had deleted my blog, but now I’m back with a simple blog. I guess it will take dedication to figure it all out. LOL Blessings to you, Kate! (I also tried to comment on the post before mine, but I couldn’t get it to work.