After (Five Minute Friday)

The weeks spin by and I've missed a few Five Minute Fridays. The house is quiet for a few hours, so I have a little space to write. After all, it's only five minutes!  Today's word is:

After

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I have spent far too much of my life waiting for "after."  For years it was - after the kids are in school, after the kids are grown and gone, after we sell the house..... On and on it went in an endless pattern of waiting for something else to happen.

Perhaps it is finding myself smack dab in the middle of my sixth decade. Perhaps it is an awakening to the understanding that there is so much to grab hold of in the now and so much lost in the looking ahead to what I imagine will be a better time.

There are miracles in the moments of my today that will be lost in the yearning to get somewhere else. The truth is, the somewhere else or the something else is often not nearly what I had hoped. I may very well look back and regret not savoring the moments of the here and now.

When difficulties come it feels better to look ahead to after. But what if I am so focused on it that I miss what the Father has for me in this moment?
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Please come visit the lovely women who gather at Lisa-Jo's on Friday. You will be blessed.

 

Blessings,
Linda