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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: SCENE
Thanks to FMF community member Paula Short for the prompt suggestion!
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.Â
Sometimes I can get pretty worked up about a given situation, acting as though the outcome of a particular decision could change the trajectory of a whole lot of other things . . . and sometimes that does happen. But more often than not, the moment passes, the conflict gets resolved, and life carries on.
A blip on the radar.
I often forget that these days, these chapters, these periods in our lives are usually just one scene in a much larger act, and a small part of one act in a much larger play.
More than that, my role may seem significant to me at the time, but it’s really quite inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. I am just one member of the cast — certainly not even a lead actor.
And yet, how often do I act as though I’m the director — or worse, as if I wrote the script myself?
I’m quite sure I would do well to practice what Tim Keller called the “art of self-forgetfulness,” and to keep in mind that those scenarios that can get me stressed out are really just small parts in a much greater performance — and that I am certainly not the director or creator.
May the Lord humble us and keep us dependent on Him in all things — big and small.
STOP.
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We hippies gonna run the earth,
and so to achieve this dream
I really gotta prove my worth
and truly deeply make the scene,
with tie-dyes and a headband,
sandals and bell-bottoms too.
Gotta hang out with the vandals,
and scoff unto the Meanies Blue
until they trap me ‘gainst a wall
and offer me a prison cell
unless I’m willing to tell all,
in which case I am out, pell-mell,
but Momma didn’t raise no fool,
so I’m a pigeon on a stool.
Three minutes flat, and that was WAY more than I intended to say.
Yes! The moment is just one scene … that I didn’t write! LOL. After all this living I’ve done, I sure am glad I didn’t write the scene, or the chapter, or the novel! What a mess that would have been! Glad God is in control! FMF#7