Welcome to Week Two of our March Guest Post Series here at Five Minute Friday! Each week this month, we’re featuring a different member of the FMF community.
Our guest post and prompt suggestion this week come from FMF community member Lisa Marcelina.
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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: JOURNEY
Please enjoy the following guest post by FMF community member Lisa Marcelina:
Some journeys are long and arduous, others are short and adventurous. The Israelite’s brief
journey to the promised land evolved into a 40-year trek in the wilderness. During that passage,
the Lord protected and provided. He remained with them until they finally reached their
destination.
My journey to becoming a writer was lengthy, adventurous, and at times, challenging. Numerous
writing courses cultivated my skills and boosted my confidence to pen words into sentences,
sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into pages until I gravitated to writing a book.
Writing a book is hard. Not just composing the words but writing the hard stories. Four years to
finish a first draft. After that, I almost gave up, but the Lord nudged me to keep going. He
allowed me the time to rest, but after a year he said to me, “It’s time to rise and continue, don’t
worry I’ll be with you every step of the way.”
This year I’ve started a new journey to finish and publish my book. The writing so far has been
fun, and I’m enjoying the process. As I make progress and receive positive feedback from fellow
writers, I’m kept motivated. I see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Philippians 1:6 says, “… that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to
completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” I’m holding this promise close to my heart.
Lisa Marcelina Granger lives in Trinidad and Tobago with her two adult children, a pet cat, and a dog.
Apart from writing she enjoys gardening, hiking, and reading whodunits.
You can read more on her website: https://lisamarcelina.net/
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Join us with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, JOURNEY, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:
I am skipping through my journey,
cancer’s voyage to disaster,
in the hope that humour earns me
brownie points with Lord and Master.
Making jokes ’bout every setback
isn’t easy but I try,
’cause the big thing that I really lack
is willingness to say goodbye,
so I guess that jest and jibe
is a mindset sort of thing
that I hopes help me survive,
and in the meantime might well bring
attention to a kind of pun,
that in funeral there’s ‘fun’.
Wow. That’s really awful!
Not awful, Andrew.
I just saved it to my favorite Andrew sonnets folder.
Your sonnets are a blessing.
Lisa, I celebrate your steadfast spirit as you continue writing the words God calls you to share. I’m writing my first book too. It is wonderful and challenging!
Well done Lisa. Certainly publishing a book is a lengthy journey. Yes, don’t give up. My book took me 7 years from start to publish and my current book has taken me 10 years and now needs a complete re-write! lol.
Yours will be a story worth reading!
Thank you for hosting this week! I think I have been absent from this link-up since sometime in 2022. I enjoyed reading your post today. Have a great weekend!
Looking forward to reading your book when it is done.