It’s time for the final Five Minute Friday link-up of October!
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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: WEIGHT
This past week I shared the following post on Instagram and on Facebook:
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Since then, I’ve been listening to the song, “Though You Slay Me” by Shane and Shane on repeat:
And while this trial certainly does not feel “light” or “momentary” as 2 Corinthians 4:17 says, I can still ask God to help me believe that the seemingly unbearable weight of this burden on my son, his friend’s family, the school community, the church, and so many more who knew and loved Rosbin will indeed be “achieving for us an eternal weight of glory that far outweighs them all” (2 Cor. 4:17).
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:
The cruelty of a life cut short,
the sorrow that we all must face,
and it isn’t much support
to hear, “He’s in a better place,”
because the loss just cuts so deep,
an amputation in the heart,
a piece that’s lost, we’d rather keep,
but done is done and now we start
a new game with one player short,
a joke, a call dies on our lips
for he could never be the sort
we’d expect to give us the slip
and journey so far, far away
to leave us lost, bereft, this day.
Three minutes thirty, with all my heart, Kate.
Thank you, Andrew.
That is so heartbreaking.
Praying for peace and comfort for his family and friends.
Ah, it’s so hard, when young ones are loss, even with the grace of God being active in their life. My prayers for your son, you, and the lad’s family. Condolences as well. FMF7