Welcome to our mid-July Five Minute Friday link-up!

Learn more about the link-up and how it works here.

Our writing prompt this week was recommended by a couple of FMF community members, including Tara Boswell and Joanne Viola:

This week’s Five Minute Friday writing prompt is: PATH

Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.

I got to go to a women’s retreat today, and the speaker was the delightful Jennifer Rothschild. I had never heard her speak before, but she was such a breath of fresh air. Funny, engaging, and full of truth to share.

If you’re not familiar with her story, Jennifer was diagnosed with a rare degenerative eye disease when she was fifteen years old. She was declared legally blind and soon lost all of her eyesight.

Now, decades later, she travels all over the country speaking to large crowds about the the faithfulness of God, the beauty of the truth of His Word, and the salvation that comes through Jesus Christ.

The theme for her three sessions today was grace. She spoke from 2 Corinthians 12:9 —

Hearing Jennifer share her testimony about how God’s grace has been sufficient for her even when He hasn’t healed her blindness (yet) was particularly powerful. This was certainly not the path she expected to be on in life. She had dreams of becoming an artist that had to be laid aside.

She has had to learn dependence on Him in ways she never imagined. And yet He has not failed her.

If your life has followed a different path than you anticipated or hoped, can I encourage you with the same truth Jennifer shared today?

His grace is sufficient for you.

As Jennifer said, “Grace, grace, grace.”

STOP.

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Join us with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, PATH, in the link-up below, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment: