Five-Minute-Friday~Just

It's just the most wonderful way to end a week, writing with the FMF community that offers me the opportunity to expand on a one-word prompt.

To write for five minutes, raw and unedited can be a challenge for me.

With all the thoughts floating around in my head, sometimes putting them into words can create a conflict within me at times.

What if they create a conflict for others?

Words said, can be forgiven but are not always forgotten. And that door swings both ways! I've said and written my share during some really tough times. I've also been hurt by the words or actions of others. Yet, as I look back over them, cleaning my closet (brain) of some clutter, had I not said it, wrote it, faced it, it might not have been addressed, or fixed, or understood, or recognized, or ____ fill in the blank!

It took a while for me to control those words, said or written, during those raw feelings, in the depth of the darkness, or the rage of the fire within.

It was then, as it is now, my voice was just speaking up! It's my God-given ability to speak up in His honor, not for my own. To help others that might be going through similar struggles. Sharing a kind of direction that might just take them on the path God plans for them.

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I will always do what I do best...I will always pause. I will always take time to reflect. And I will always pray my heart out to God, patiently waiting for the answers, the healing and the growth He has for me, for us, for them too.

While putting my words into their place, it's time to set the timer...

Go...

What. A. Week!

Nike had an ad, "Just Do It!" Stop over thinking it, and "just" do it!
Just like writing for Five-Minute-Fridays, just do it!

Not everything can just happen, especially when it has to do with the medical world. It takes time to get on schedules, get the test done, then get the results that require a referral to a specialist, to get on that schedule, only to have more test to do, with more scheduling.

Before you know it, it's been six months, then a year.

Just in time, is the feeling you get when they find a growth on a vertebra causing the spinal cord to collapse, which finally explains the pain your hubby has been in, happens just in time. Watching him suffer has just been awful. With all he has done for me through my illness, surgeries, and falls, now that it's his turn to be cared for, I'm just a bit worried.

What if...seems to pop up a lot too!

All I can do is pray, listen, comfort, and love while...

STOP!

...he recovers and be patient with him, as he was for me. Just be there!

Somewhere along my FB timeline, a saying popped up from Focus on the Family...

This just fits us to a tee!

Each and every storm we have been through has had a rainbow because we did what God was directing our hearts to do. In the end, it might not be a rainbow in the sky that the world sees, but one reflecting through the window sending prism of colors onto the wall beside you, just for us to see. When you take the time to just listen and observe all His work around you, even the birds I enjoy outside are His creation for my enjoyment.

As I began to type, the sparrows or swallows, not sure which, they might even be some type of a small blackbird, are singing outside my house. It goes from deafening to quiet and back again. They seem to like my trees, they are in four of them around the house. They have been here before at this time of year. Only there just seems to be more this year. Maybe they spread the word that my home is a safe place for them too!

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