I have always wanted to try this......so here goes (5 minutes turned out to be longer than I thought!!!)
From Gypsy Mama's Blog:
Want to take five minutes with me and just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. Here’s how we do it:
1. Write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in {you can grab the button code in my right side bar}
3. Go and tell the person who linked up before you what their words meant to you. Every writer longs to feel heard.
Grateful…
I used to be a really ungrateful person. Life at home was hard, but I was given a lot. I expected things, and felt entitled to whatever I wanted. I was spoiled, and held tightly to everything I had. Then, God changed me, brought me out of darkness and into His loving family. I wish that I could say that I immediately became a grateful person. On some level I was. I was grateful for my salvation and this new church family I had been given, but still expected things to be easy, and to get what I wanted. God had some other plans though. And in the last 13 years or so has been doing some major surgery on my heart. He has dug deep into the parts of me that felt entitled, and shown me that I have been given so much. As His daughter, as an American.....I have so much to be grateful for.....but more than that, He has shown me if I lost all that I had (like Job) that I would still have so much to be grateful for, because in Him I have every spiritual blessing, every right of an heir.....I have Him, and an eternity that is secure in His hands! I have peace and guidance as I walk through this life with Him...I have grace.
6 comments:
I love these lines- they speak right to me: "...doing some major surgery on my heart. He has dug deep into the parts of me that felt entitled, and shown me that I have been given so much..."
Been there- felt that too.
Oh, yes- we've been given much and our eternity is forever secure in his strong hands... enjoyed reading your heart here.
God Bless
Loved this ... so beautiful. Praising Him for grace along with you. :)
And your latest follower.
oh, you did a great job, danielle!majr surgery on my heart - great line.
Oh yes he does dig deep, doesn't he!
So beautiful is your post, so honest! He has given you grace alright, the gracefulness to share what most of us hide deep within our hearts, so that no one knows!
Thank you.
Blessings
What great thoughts... lovely gratefulness.
"every spiritual blessing, every right an heir" -- so true. We lean on so much periphery but it all boils down to that one, beautiful, redemptive truth.
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