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.
You can learn more about the link-up and how it works here.
This week’s FMF writing prompt is: 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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Join the link-up with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, ALMOST, below, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
They say we may be almost there,
just trust the way the river runs,
but I can’t say I really care
’cause I know tomorrow never comes.
I hear the songs of fervent hope,
I hear each hallelujah shout,
but today I cannot cope
because my heart is giving out,
and I am tied unto a hose
of O2 that I sorely need,
and I must say that I suppose
it really is a kind of greed
to wish this might have been delayed,
but that’s the way the game is played.
Three minutes and change.
Amen! Come quickly Lord Jesus!
oh, you won’t be empty nesters until they are all done college! 🙂 Those inbetween college and summer times just give you time to adjust. 🙂 Enjoy the time looking forward? FMF5
Kate, I hope you’ll forbear an extra comment.
I was almost there. We adopted Beau, a Great Dane, to be my stability dog two weeks ago. My balance is off, and he quickly showed his willingness to help, and his ability to get me back to my feet if I fell, and get me back to the house.
He also could tell when I was hypoxic, and would bring me my oxygen cannula.
And then, yesterday, he died of heart failure.
Barb says that her security blanket has been ripped away; she could go to work with an easy heart, knowing Beau was here.
Almost.
Oh, Andrew! How awful! I’m so very sorry.