Welcome to the final FMF link-up of April! I hope the weather is becoming more spring-like in your neck of the woods (assuming you’re in the northern hemisphere . . .) 😉
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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: MIGHT
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.
By now you all know I am a planner. I like to know what is happening and have time to plan accordingly.
But life is full of “what ifs,” and the older I get, the more I realize just how little control I have over . . . well, anything, really.
Now I actually find it difficult to commit to solid plans months in advance because I just have no idea what life will be like at that time.
We might be healthy, we might not. We might have guests visiting, we might not. We might have to travel to South Africa to help family members, we might not.
If I’m honest, I just don’t have a cooking clue.
And that’s just one of many reasons why a relationship with the Lord is so appealing to me: He knows. He always knows. And He always provides exactly what we need when we need it, even if I don’t see it or realize it in the moment.
This world feels more and more unstable and unpredictable with each passing day, yet the Lord brings these song lyrics to mind, and I am comforted by the anchor I find in Christ:
To this I hold, my hope is only JesusFor my life is wholly bound to HisOh, how strange and divine, I can sing, “All is mine”Yet not I, but through Christ in me
. . .
To this I hold, my Shepherd will defend meThrough the deepest valley, He will leadOh, the night has been won, and I shall overcomeYet not I, but through Christ in me
. . .
With every breath, I long to follow JesusFor He has said that He will bring me homeAnd day by day, I know He will renew meUntil I stand with joy before the throne
Song credit: Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me, by CityAlight
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Join the link-up with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, MIGHT, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
It’s hard not now to deny
that there really truly might
come a time when I, dear I,
will not last through one more night,
and so I strive to stay awake
with pain and racking bleeding cough
that I stand ready yet to take
the angels on, and drive them off,
for there is yet so much to do,
an aeroplane that I am building,
and thus I have to make it true
that I am far too tough for killing,
and God above must shake His head,
and send His angels back to bed.
I was thinking along similar lines for this week’s prompt, AND my husband and I were just singing that song together last night! It’s a good one!
ah Kate, you had me singing this morning! Not a bad thing that! 🙂 FMF5