Hey friends! It’s June!
Welcome to our weekly Five Minute Friday writing prompt link-up. Whether you’ve been writing for a long time or you’re just starting out, we invite you to set a timer for five minutes and see what comes out. 🙂
This week’s FMF writing prompt is: HONOR
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.
As many of you know, my youngest son graduated from high school two weeks ago. Many of you also know that his best friend passed away unexpectedly seven-and-a-half months ago.
His friend was supposed to graduate with him, so I knew the ceremony was going to be rough.
When we sat down in the auditorium, I looked at the agenda for the evening and said to my sister, “Okay, I’m going to cry during this speech and that speech,” pointing at the program in my hand.
Ha.
Every single speech acknowledged their lost classmate, student, and friend.
I cried through the whole thing, and yet it felt right to honor him in such a meaningful way.
You guys, his sister even came and spoke from the podium. (Her name was not in the program!) What a brave and beautiful thing.
With a graduating class of only sixty students, they have all felt this loss in a deep and profound way.
It will mark them forever, and yet they each gave testimony to how the Lord has sustained them in the midst of such a dark, dark valley.
To God be the glory.
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Join us with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, HONOR, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
Honor them while still they live,
laurel wreaths upon the head.
Give the love that you can give
before they’re cold and dead
and laying ‘neath a marble stone
with platitudes engraved
Praise them now, or else atone
for the breath that you had saved.
In God’s place it doesn’t matter
what you said down here,
but while you live your heart will shatter
with each bitter falling tear
as you realize joy that you denied
because of false and foolish pride.
It sounds very moving.
Congratulations to your son graduating!
Big moments in life!