I can't tell you how great it was to read all of your answers yesterday... with the thought that went into some of them, I know you all are going to love the gist of this book and what it makes you ponder.
The winner of Holley Gerth's My Heart for You is:
Zoshadelonghi {side note: I would love to know if that is a last name or if it stands for something...}
Congrats! Email your mailing address to gitzengirl@gmail.com and we'll get your book sent off to you! :)
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Today I'm linking up to Lisa-Jo, aka gypsy mama, who chooses a topic every Friday and writes for five minutes.
Only five minutes.
And the rule is that whatever she writes about in that five minutes is what she posts. No editing her thoughts.
*** Actually, when I checked Lisa-Jo's site, there was no prompt put up, so I'm going to improvise. Since the prompt is - literally - unknown, that's what I'll write about. :) ***
So I'm going to set the timer, write some thoughts, and then I'm going to stop.
Ready? Set. Go.
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Unknown.
The unknown can be our biggest enemy sometimes… the thing we put most of our focus on and what we spend most of our energy trying to control.
I sometimes wonder if it's actually more comforting for us to look ahead and live in the future and all of the unknown simply because we feel a desperate need to avoid the present we're in.
Because, let's face it, the present can be hard. We can be broke or we can be sick or we can be abandoned. We can be living in limbo in our marriages or in crisis with our jobs or aching for our children and their needs. The right now can hurt so badly that the only escape is to get lost into the unknown of those "what ifs" that give us the illusion of control.
What if I take this job, or what if we lose the house, or what if we make that move, or what if I get the raise, or what if I try this treatment.
We can live in fear and dread the unknown, assuring ourselves of the worst - or we can live in hope and see happiness ahead with Pollyanna eyes.
But neither of them are truly right.
Both are still guessing games of the unknown.
I'm learning how to fully live right in the middle of the hard, in the here and KNOWN, because if this is my life - if this is where I am at - then this is where God is at, too. And if I’m wasting all of my time and energy trying to control the unknown of the future rather than fulfilling what He may be needing from me right now, then I’m wasting God’s time as well.
It all boils down to this:
none of it is unknown to Him.