Hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of the Five Minute Friday link-up! Our first link-up of the month of June, and now that my kids have finished their school year, we’re ready to bring on summer.
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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: REVERSE
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.
As I shared in my post last week, my youngest child recently turned seventeen years old. I am still feeling the reality that one year from now, he’ll be getting ready to move to college.
On his birthday, I shared this collage on my Instagram story:
Sifting through old photos made me wish I could reverse the clock. Go back in time. Relive those years. As tiresome as they may have been, they also brought much laughter and tremendous joy.
Our family has been reading the gospel of Matthew in the evenings for our family devotions.
Shortly after Jesus began His public ministry, Matthew 4:23-25 says, “And he [Jesus] went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them. And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.”
After we read this passage, my husband explained that part of what Jesus is doing here is reversing the effects of the curse. Before sin entered the world, there were no diseases or afflictions — and one day, in the new heavens and the new earth, there will be no need for healing or restoration because all will be made whole.
So while I may wish I could go back in time, I’m also eager to keep moving forward — each day closer to that magnificent day when there will be no more heartache or sadness or mourning or pain. That magnificent day when all will be made new and we will dwell in the glorious presence of our Almighty God.
STOP.
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Join the link-up with your own five-minute freewrite below, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:
One fine day I done decided
for the better or the worse
to see if my bike could be rided
real fast downhill in reverse,
and so I gave a mate my beer,
and then shouted, ‘Now watch THIS!’,
and as everyone around stood clear
I backed over the precipice
to rattle on the gravel track
with a quick-increasing speed,
looking out over my back
without quite handling the need
for still front wheel as my head turned,
and thus I crashed, and giggling, burned.
Three minutes thirty. And no, I don’t plan to ever grow up.
Brave sir knight. Keep risking and trying new things! May your bumps heal and remind you of exciting times.
Thanks Andrew, 😀 What a hoot!
Reverse. My head is spinning thinking about the reality that verse means turn in Latin and then to RE-Verse means to turn again. Turn again to what? If I am already turned. What do I need to turn back again to? The present “triggers” automatically snap my head and heart and mind and body into the past. “Feel this again,” it says! Sit back here please. Ah, but reverse tells me that I can turn again back to the present moment. Feel the pain and choose to stay HERE!!! Present in the here and now, not stuck feeling the past over and over and over and over again! Thanks be to God for His glorious grace and mercy that is new every MOMENT! Lord show me new ways of reversing from the past into the present. In Jesus name amen!
Jesus reverses the curse! Amen!
What a handsome boy.
Jesus reverses the effects of the curse of sin. What a marvellous truth to meditate upon! Thank you Kate.