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Hold Fast

October 16, 2020 By Annette1 12 Comments

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It’s five minute Friday again, aren’t you delighted?   I saw the word prompt from Miss Kate this morning, it’s HOLD.  So have been pondering it for the past two hours.  I’ve been considering such ideas as hold fast, will your anchor hold, staying steadfast etc.  We’ll have to see where my thoughts take me yet. 

Hold defined

  • Noun: grasp, carry, or support with one’s arms or hands.
  • Noun: keep or detain (someone)
  • Verb: an act or manner of grasping something; a grip.
  • Verb: power or control.
hold fast

Hold Fast

We have an anchor that keeps the soul
steadfast and sure while the billows roll;
fastened to the Rock which cannot move,
grounded firm and deep in the Saviour’s love!

That grounding holds us.
The love of God that is.
Just as our parents love keeps
Us secure when we are tots.

How does this transition as we mature?
How does one hold on to
an anchor when persuasions
around us lay?

Wisdom speaks to us
Reminding us to hold on
to the truths we learned as tots.
Clinging securely to love.

To hold fast means
we take action. It’s not a
blind autonamic function.
Purposeful, determined, reasoned.

Choices made
Will we hold fast to the
one who holds fast to us?
Steady, sure, determined, without fail?

Wisdom demands
Putting knowledge to sure use.
Intelligence mixed with emotion.
The provides an anchor surely needed.

Faith is action taken
a trust given to
a sure foundation.
God, our hold fast.

God Himself is with us
Seeking the Things of God

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  1. Letitia Mason says

    October 16, 2020 at 12:01 pm

    I’m your neighbour on fiveminutefriday again. I love that song ‘Will your anchor hold’. We seem to have a similar take on this week’s prompt! I like ‘to hold fast means we take action’.

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    • Annette1 says

      October 18, 2020 at 12:12 am

      thank you, it’s good to consider all the meanings of a word and see the action contained therein. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Loretta says

    October 16, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    The Lord is our steadfast anchor. I am very pleased about that 😍 fmf#6

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    • Annette1 says

      October 18, 2020 at 12:12 am

      isn’t it a good thing indeed? 🙂

      Reply
  3. Paula Short says

    October 16, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    So beautiful Annette and so true. Thank you so much for sharing. Blessings to you. ( Visit from FMF #21)

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    • Annette1 says

      October 18, 2020 at 12:12 am

      thank you for stopping in Paula. 🙂

      Reply
  4. Andrew Budek-Schmeisser says

    October 17, 2020 at 9:48 am

    Faith…a trust given to a sure foundation…” LOVE that.

    My sea-anchor keeps me running
    bow to wave, and true;
    it works so well, it’ really stunning,
    so what, friend, about you?
    Do you have that stable hold
    of confidence in storm,
    can you feel all bright and bold,
    or has fear become your norm,
    that you’ll broach to within a trough,
    and face a foundering fate?
    You still can ward disaster off,
    it’s really not to late
    for a sea-drogue to receive;
    just say to Jesus, I believe.

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    • Annette1 says

      October 18, 2020 at 12:13 am

      love those words, thank you Andrew. You are a treasure to me. 🙂

      Reply
  5. Lori says

    October 18, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    Hold – quite a different idea when you start considering all possibilities. I enjoyed reading where your thoughts took you on this.

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    • Annette1 says

      October 19, 2020 at 12:33 am

      oh, thank you. 🙂 It was good to take the time to write it.

      Reply
  6. Sandra K Stein says

    October 18, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    Love that song. Thanks for sharing.
    (visiting from #39)

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    • Annette1 says

      October 19, 2020 at 12:33 am

      thank you

      Reply

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