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Five Minute Friday

I joined in that very first week, that very first prompt Lisa-Jo Baker shared. She wanted to know what we could write in 5 minutes flat. And apparently, so did we. Because Five Minute Friday became a weekly tradition across the blogosphere.

I wrote exactly 100 Five Minute Friday posts during those first three years. And I loved every five minutes. The time limit pushed me, the word prompt challenged me. Many a week God used my Five Minute Friday post to show me a very important lesson. Some of those posts became my favorites and yours.

So here they are, the best of my Five Minute Friday posts. May they speak to you as they spoke to me.

The Washing Machine

I knew it was coming. After seven years of marriage, it was bound to happen. It was only a question…
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true

“So how are things going with you all lately?” I heard one mom ask another. And the other laughed, “Are…
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she

She’s there behind me, every time I look in the mirror. Comparing her reflection to mine. She shakes her head,…
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mercy triumphs

I am Javert. I see everything black and white. Justice, all must be fair. Yet, I am Eponine. Dirty and…
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red hair

“Where did you get that red hair?” My brother and I heard the question over and over growing up, since…
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Worship

Sunday morning worship time isn’t always very conducive to worship when you’re a mom. I breathe a big sigh of…
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small

In the evenings, the small folk pile on the couch around and on top of my husband for story time….
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the story of a generation

Throughout the generations, civilization’s story has been passed on verbally, carved in stone, and scratched in pen and ink. Sometimes…
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of Five Minute Friday and rules that were made to be broken

of Five Minute Friday and rules that were made to be broken

Some rules were made to be broken. Especially when it comes to writing prompts and blog link-ups like Five Minute…
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a sense of belonging

“Was it hard, moving away from your family?” they ask. “Weren’t you homesick?” I always smile as I shake my…
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rhythm

rhythm

We fell in love to the rhythm of Country music. The cassettes and CDs we mixed for each other became…
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imaginary world

Dear Ruth, You visit an imaginary world each night in your dreams. One where Aslan is both King and Friend,…
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