Welcome to this week’s edition of the Five Minute Friday link-up, and happy Easter weekend!
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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: WITHOUT
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.Â
Those of you who have been around for a while will recall that my 17-year-old son lost his best friend in October. This weekend marks the six-month milestone since his friend’s unexpected death.
I drafted the following post to share on my Instagram profile on Saturday to acknowledge the day:
: s i x : m o n t h s :
This Saturday marks six months without Rosbin. Every day, we feel his absence.
It seems appropriate that this milestone would fall on the Saturday of Easter weekend . . . That devastating, seemingly hopeless day between death and resurrection.Â
Like the disciples back then, we sit in the dark shadow of death.Â
And we wait.Â
Unlike the disciples back then, we know what we’re waiting for.Â
We know that Sunday is coming.Â
We know that hope is on the way.Â
Come, Lord Jesus.Â
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I do wonder how the disciples felt on that first day without their Lord. They didn’t know that He would soon reappear, rise from the dead, conquer death once and for all. On that day, all they knew was that He was gone.
We have the benefit of knowing what happened next, and not only that, we’ve been told what will happen next. Not only did the Lord Jesus Christ reappear to His disciples, He will also reappear to us when He comes again to judge the living and the dead.
A day is coming when He will make all things new, and we won’t have to sit in the darkness of the shadow of death any longer.
We will be reunited and renewed. Resurrected.
Hallelujah, what a Savior.
STOP.
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Join us with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, WITHOUT, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
The one we loved so well is gone
and we are sore afraid
of how we might chose to go on;
of what will life be made
without the laugh without the smile,
without the warmth of touch?
What future can be, can be while
we have lost far, far too much?
But then there come the cries of night,
of those left far behind,
and we must learn that we just might
apply our hearts to find
that for the lost ones we may be
representative of Your memory.
Come, Jesus, come!
Without smart phones where would we be. A granddaughter just called to ask for prayer for her nephew who was struck by a car while riding his scooter on a street in Chicago. She will attend a concert without her sister while she is at the hospital with her son.
Without Good Friday, I would have no chance to pray to my loving Father. His Son made it possible to have that amazing connection. Without Him, I don’t know where I would be. Without hope and joy and peace–that’s for sure. Without a doubt I continue to live for Him rejoicing in the Resurrection and the forward look of life with Him forever–without sorrow and sin. Glad to not be without the fold. His forever!