Six Word Friday – Over

The Lord watches over me always!

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Writing Challenge: Turn It Around

A fellow blogger invited us to share our testimony recently.  Live and Laugh With Jesus posted this challenge here.

This has made me think . . . it’s Monday as I write this and on various sites I’ve seen laments about “woe is me” as a new week starts.  Oh, I know those feelings.  Here’s the challenge!

if I let Him, the Lord will ALWAYS turn it around for me.  I’m still finding that I should let Him do this more often than I do, but life is a learning journey.  That being said, I’d like you to accept this challenge and in the comment section of this post, please share a time when you encountered Him in this way and let us rejoice in how He took “ho-hum” and turned it around for you!

Sharing these moments can bring hope to others.  Won’t you share with us?  If you would like, you are welcome to write this on your own blog and post a link in the comments section below.  I’ll edit this post and add a list of your links.  You are also welcome to share in the comment if you prefer.

Thanks for being His disciple!

Six Word Fridays – What Is Fine?

Oh, I’m fine, I’ve always said

But it was so seldom true.

The admission that I needed more

Awakened my heart to you, Lord.

It has made all the difference.

Now, even when fear creeps in

One glance into your loving eyes . . .

fine is redefined forevermore in me.

by

Martha L Shaw – Copyright 2-1-2013

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Daily Prompt: Burning Down the House

Here;s the challenge:   ”Your home is on fire. Grab five items (assume all people and animals are safe). What did you grab?”

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1. Bible
2. Cell phone
3. Computer
4. Eye glasses
5. Pocketbook

How about you?

Daily Prompt: Through The Window

The Stranger’s Cat

Glancing outside my window

and across the street,

I see a tired home

in near darkness.

I wonder who lives there

for I have never seem

your face

oh neighbor of mine.

I wonder if you are happy

or sad,

tall or short.

I know you have love in your heart,

for I have met your cat.

I see the garage door

is always left open . . .

not much,

but just enough for my furry friend

to pass in and out.

I’d like to someday meet

the one who loves my furry friend.

by Martha L Shaw – Copyright – 1-30-2013

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Six Word Friday

Today?  More than I could handle . . . 

Mastering The Art of Listening – Daily Prompt: I Got Skills

The Daily Prompt has really challenged me this time.  Have you checked it out?  Click here and read all about it if you dare!  We were asked “If you could choose to be a master (or mistress) of any skill in the world, which skill would you pick?” Wow.  Think about it.  Oh, how easy it is to think of what I’d wish for if I found a genie in a bottle and could ask for anything, but fairy tales aren’t real and the challenge isn’t to choose between a handsome prince, a shiny new car, or an endless supply of gold, but rather what skill would I like to master. 

As I sit here in my home office, the television news is on in the background.  I’m hearing of school shootings, striking school bus drivers, high unemployment rates and political discord, to name just a few of the painful situations many of us face.  The answer came to me to this challenge as I heard all of these familiar battles.  I’d love to be the master (okay mistress, oops) of the art of listening!  Think about it!  Surely, we all want what’s best, don’t we?

• What’s best for me?
• What’s best for my family, my children?
• What’s best for my future?
• What’s best for my neighborhood, my town, my state?
• What’s best for my country?
• What’s best to promote unity?  To gain world peace?

So many questions and ultimately, the answer to each one, as I view it, is the same.  We just don’t listen!  Oh, I’ve said it many times; “I hear you.”  But was I really listening?  Did I really hear?  Did I really care?  I should care  . . . I must care.  But . . . are my listening skills all they should be?  Listening and caring go hand in hand and in order for the challenges in our lives to change for the good, we must not simply “listen”, but truly listen and focus and with an open-mind and an open heart.  Peace and unity wouldn’t be a long-shot or a false hope held by the naïve . . . it would be OURS!  How great would it be if someone didn’t have to come to me and say “listen to me!”  Why not?  Because they would know that I had the skill mastered!

A Wednesday Challenge

I just read something on a social media site which struck me immediately as a challenge I needed to take on.

I challenge you to do the same.  Jesus did.  You see, to paraphrase . . . someone mentioned “the moment” when she realized why “nobody” likes a certain person.

Friends, we’ve all been the person “nobody” likes at some point in our lives . . . whether fact or fiction, I’m certain inside yourself you’ve felt that way.  I challenge you to take the high road, as Christ did, does, and requires of us.  I challenge you to find a reason to LIKE the person.  Might be difficult, but will surely change the world!

Weekly Photo Challenge – Resolved at the Cross

Ah, resolutions . . . while I do not make New Year’s Resolutions, as soon as I saw this challenge and topic, I knew the answer to the question of what resolved means to me.  Click the link above and join in, won’t you?

Tricubica – Of The Heart: A Poetry Challenge

Well of heart:

Grace . . . favor,

Plentitude!

by Martha L Shaw – Copyright 1-1-2013

Care to play along:  Check out Caddo’s blog or Betty’s . . . or both and learn of this “tricubica” poetry form!  Three lines, three syllables!