It’s time for another Five Minute Friday post, were we write for five minutes flat. All on the same prompt that Lisa Jo posts at 1 minute past midnight EST ever Friday. And we connect on Twitter with the hashtag #FMFParty from 10 pm – 12 am. It makes me tired but happy 🙂
Except this week. I went to bed at 9:30. And it was glorious. Missed all my FMF girls though!
No extreme editing; no worrying about perfect grammar, font, or punctuation (although to be honest, I always worry about font. Is that strange?). Unscripted. Unedited. Real.
It’s easy to join in, just:
Write a post in only five minutes on that topic on your blog.
Link over at Lisa Jo’s and invite friends to join in!
Be sure and encourage the person who linked up before you!
Today’s prompt: Roots
Go!
I was watching the Hallmark Movie Channel the other week, because that’s what I do when there really isn’t anything else on TV. The movie was set in wine country, and the best quote of the entire movie came when the lead actress commented to the love interest: “I work in a vineyard. All I know is, you don’t have roots, you die.”
To me, roots are family. A home. A feeling. My roots are what keep me going on the days where my heart feels empty from the drought of hope and encouragement. They reach deep into the dark soil for nourishment to keep me going when everything I’m trying to do on my own, above ground, is simply blowing in the wind.
My roots keep me grounded when they voices pull me in other directions, challenge me to do more, be more, do this/that/the other thing because that’s what a good mommy/wife/writer/corporate employee/Christian SHOULD do.
My roots take me to a place where my heart & soul can settle and know that all of those this/that/the other things are good. But what I need to do is listen to Jesus. Because these roots He gave me, this gift from the One who is the root of my life? I want them to go deep. I want to remember that the seasons of drought and challenge will be the times when those roots dig down to look for life giving water. And the deeper they go, the more they dig, the stronger I will be on the outside, above ground. I won’t tip over at the slightest breeze, I won’t lose it all when the weather turns.
Stop.
{blush}…thank you so much 🙂
muah 😉 i will hopefully be there next week!
P.S. We really missed you last night at the party, it’s just not the same without you, but I’m glad you got some rest.
Yes, so simple. Listen to Jesus but so hard at the very same time with all the demands we place on ourselves by others, for others, for ourselves. Glad you have roots in Him and those He placed in your life. And so so glad we got to meet at Allume. I’ve found that no one I’ve met from Five Minute Friday was any different than I imagined while online. You all represent so well. My heart is happy this week looking through all the pictures and reading everyone’s words.
This is one of those posts that I WISH I had written because it so clearly speaks to my life at this moment. Thank you for sharing, this was so well written!!
I whole-heartedly agree with you! Roots are for me also family, home, feeling, Jesus. Such precious things and people that keep us grounded and standing tall. Have a great weekend Crystal!
My family and my beliefs are what keep me grounded as well. I know that no matter what happens in society I have a safe haven to give me strength.