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Reflection is not a bad thing

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Oh no!   It’s the last Five minute Friday post of the year.  I’ve been pondering this week’s word Conclude all day and still really have no idea what to write.   If you are struggling with your own posts you might want to get some inspiration from those who have already linked up!  🙂 

One of the aspects of writing for Five minute Friday is how often, when I haven’t an idea of what to write, I start writing and suddenly a post a written.  Do you ever have that?   Don’t you find it fascinating?   Anyways,  I give you Reflection is not a bad thing.

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Reflection is a bad thing

Just the other day,
I saw a post.
What has your reflection
over the past year taught you?

I thought WHAT? I need to reflect?
How’s I don’t wanna?
You can’t make me!
Reflection is only for planners!

But you know what happens
when someone puts a bug
in your brain?
You start thinking.

Shucks! There I go
Reflecting.
Noting how
Something I did was good.

This summer I
Decided… less time on my blog.
I focused on the yard,
On Building change.

I modified the rabbitry,
Brought in new cages.
Built new stands.
More stuff, yet more room.

Amazing how it worked out.
and then
I built gardens,
New raised beds.

Even the pond
was reconstructed.
A bit deeper, a bit longer.
The fish more room, happy.

The lad and I did much
Together.
Time to talk and laugh.
Creating connections.

It’s good to connect
to make different choices
Perhaps at the conclusion of a year
Reflection is not a bad thing?



In Gratitude I Come

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Miss Kate has given us a seasonally appropriate word prompt, Grateful.   If you haven’t taken the time to become part of our community, perhaps now is the time.  Consider, what do you have to be grateful for?  This word inspired the poem “In Gratitude I come”.

In gratitude I come

In Gratitude I Come

Across the platforms
Social media extols
Thanksgiving time
Let gratefulness unfold.

Pies, and turkeys,
and maybe a ham.
A sweet potato casserole
Might add some glam.

So many things
To be thankful for.
Listing many things,
Might be a bore. 🙂

A fine place to live
Work to be had
School it’s a priv
Learning now lad!

Family and friends
All gathered round
Searching extends
Something more to be found?

A friend reminded
Just the other day
Something provided
Even without my say.

So at the end of the day
With gratitude I come.
Thankful to one
Who sent his only son.

in gratitude I come

Verses to Ponder

John 3:16-17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

I John 4:9

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

2 Corinthians 9:11-15

 11 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. 12 For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God. 13 By their approval of this service, theyf] will glorify God because of your submission that comes from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others, 14 while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you. 15 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

Move Ahead

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Miss Kate has given a wonderful word prompt today with Ahead.  What can a body come up with for that word eh?   Move Ahead is a poem that came to me as I was working with my bunnies this morning. 

move ahead

Step by Step,
The path we take.
It always requires
A moving forward pattern.

Now when walking
Have you ever noticed
the difference between
Keeping your eyes looking ahead
and looking backwards?

When you look over your
Shoulder, or stop and
Look back.
Your movement forward slows?
and sometimes even
Drops to a trickle?

Then comes the question
how do you move step by step?
Does it always take a
deliberate motion?
Can you sometimes move
forward without the planning?
Can forward motion be a gift?

It’s funny if you think on it.
Sometimes growth and movement,
Happen in ways unintended.
Like a heart pain that
causes you to see the world in
a different way.
Helping you to become more
than what you were before.

It’s all a way to move ahead
A step by step
Sometimes deliberate,
A pressing on so to speak
and other times
It’s more of a cause of living
a by-product of awareness
to where we are and where
we will be.

Move ahead

Scripture Inspiration

Philippians 3:14  I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Psalm 27:13-14 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.

Psalm 46:10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

There is no Vote

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I heard some rumblings here and there that a vote is coming up south of the border.  Fractures are showing in my facebook feed.  In fact I don’t a whole lot about the American system of voting.  I know that people need to go out and do it, similar to in Canada. I also know it’s more regular, unlike in Canada.   Something else I know… there are places where there is no vote.

Miss Kate has provided us with the word prompt vote. 

There is no vote

There is no vote
So it’s been said
No vote for beast or man.

God didn’t ask
Our opinion first when,
He made earth and heaven.

He created some mystery
Like why are apes so like people?
What makes a platypus work?

Did dinosaurs walk the earth, 
When people did?
Or was one day like a 1000 years?

He acted like God
Creating just because
Jehovah wanted his glory seen.

No preening for people,
No shaking of hands.
He just said it, and so it was.

He didn’t ask us if we
wanted a giraffe, mountain,
Hill, dog or cow.

God simply said,
This one I’ll create.
Let’s have a bit of fun.

My glory will be seen in
Flowers, rocks, critters too,
in fact, the mountains will clap their hands.

My glory will be seen
in the works I do,
In the words I say.

He didn’t stop to ask
if we wanted streets of gold,
or a narrow way there.

You see as plain as day
with God
There is no vote.

Disappoint

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I have to wonder
As I ponder
Which is more important to me.

To disappoint the me inside
Or to cause disappointment to those outside.

It’s easier to forgive I think
Causing sadness to those I link.

Then cause a wound deep within,
For all I see then is my own sin.

So often that way so I find
It’s myself it’s hardest to mind.

Forgiving others easy be,
Even if they disappoint me.

So easy then to extend grace,
Why for me the about-face?

Shouldst though not myself extend,
the same willing helping hand?

I’ve yet to determine why I’m so,
All I see is that God knows.

Perfect thought he calls me be,
I know he me through Jesus see.

Thusly even though bad I am,
God indeed the great I AM.

Says to me, Child Mine,
of the great one divine.

Disappoint in self I stand
Still I would hold God’s hand.

disappoint

Five minute Friday is here again!   I’ve napped most the night away but managed to wake up in time to FMF this week.  Disappoint is the word given us by the illustrious Miss Kate. 

Hold Fast

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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.

Time Well Spent

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Well, here it is, Friday night and I haven’t gotten my Five minute Friday post done yet.  You’d almost think I’d been busy today.  I have been, but that last two hours I’ve just been chillin’.  I’ve been watching the Hank Williams movie and thoroughly enjoying the music.   The Five minute Friday word prompt this week, as provided by Miss Kate is Help.   Ruminating on this world, we got the poem Time Well spent.

Time Well Spent

Time Well Spent

Busy Day, a time to rest
Many night I feel so blest.

Once in a while, though
I have to admit, it’s not so.

All I see is worry and strife
The stress could cut like a knife.

On those days, what to do?
Watch TV to chase those blues?

Or rather do the table clear
Play a game with one held dear?

Sometimes I need some help,
So to my son I do yelp.

Lend a hand if you please,
could you provide some ease?

Before I know it, decisions made.
Watch TV or see a game laid.

Help you see is close at hand,
Even if it isn’t planned.

How one handles hard enough days,
Shows what rules each ones ways.

Give into stress, or choose to fight,
means I show what is right.

Help a lad make a better choice,
Fill ones heart with a different voice.

What is a heart, always comes out,
Will it be a whisper or a shout?

Whisper love with quiet voice,
Leave the harshness, just rejoice?

Time together is well spent,
Leaves no need to have to vent!