Welcome to the final Five Minute Friday link-up of April 2024! If you’re new to the FMF community, a special welcome to you. We gather around a single word prompt each week, set a timer, and freewrite for five minutes flat — no overthinking, no editing . . . just write.

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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: ALMOST

 

almost

 

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

It’s almost May.

That means the school year is almost over. It’s almost time for me to pick up my daughter from her first year of college to move her home for the summer. It means my youngest child is almost seventeen years old. Soon after that, it will be time to plant the garden and go to the beach. Then before we know it, my daughter will be moving back to college and our youngets will be starting his senior year of high school.

That means my husband and I are almost empty nesters.

I can get so focused on the calendar and what’s just ahead and what’s around the corner that I sometimes forget to be present here and now.

And yet, there is one very important event and occasion that I never want to stop looking forward to — that is, the fact that Jesus has promised, “I am coming soon.”

Am I living with the same anticipation of His coming as I am for other, MUCH more mundane and unimportant events?

It could be any day now. My hope is that the day of His return is almost here.

STOP.

 

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