Thursday, July 7, 2011

Five Minute Friday: Grateful



GO.
Okay I suck at this. I already started and deleted two sentences. Yes, I'm cheating. It's my first time.

Now GO.
When I hear the word grateful, I see an image of a silhouetted cross at the top of a hill.

I'm grateful for a life that gives me relatively little baggage to carry around, and most of it I chose for myself--it wasn't thrust upon me. This gives me fewer stories to tell, in a way, but it also frees me to step back and just tell all the stories. I don't spend all of my story telling one story, as it were.

My heart overflows when I stop to count the things for which I am grateful, to the point that I usually don't stop. It's a little uncomfortable getting all weepy over dumb things like my suburban life, or the friends that send me unprompted happy notes in the mail. I'm afraid if I stop and spend too much time being grateful for my absurdly secure life, it might all go away.

So I go back to that image of the cross on the hill. There is no shame in being grateful for that. It's the greatest gift I could ever hope to have been given. I do a terrible job of talking about it sometimes, because it's easier to focus on the generalities of love and relationship, but really, it all comes from the action of the Man on the cross. Who gave up everything so that I, with nothing, could have it all.

God is good.

STOP.

And that's all I can say in five minutes of not tweaking and pondering the turn of every phrase. Much.

Linking up today with the Gypsy Mama's Five Minute Friday. Just for fun, and because it's easier to blog for five minutes today than to try to think of anything else to say right now. I am spent from my experience assembling a book proposal. And it's a good thing.

Have a lovely weekend, friends!

5 comments:

  1. Well...I think you did great for "sucking" at it! :) I love that cross too!! Visiting you from Five Minute Friday.

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  2. Yep. What Eileen said. :)

    "I'm afraid if I stop and spend too much time being grateful for my absurdly secure life, it might all go away."

    Pondering this interesting "spillage." Grateful that we never have to fear being so grateful that the cross goes away!

    Applause!

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  3. Yes! God is good! And you are funny - I don't think you sucked at all ;) Excellent post, even if you cheated just a bit.

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  4. "really, it all comes from the action of the Man on the cross. Who gave up everything so that I, with nothing, could have it all."

    that is really all of it in a nutshell. you pegged the heart of this prompt love!

    Nice to meet you.
    Blessings

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  5. I'ma go ahead and agree with the other comments. Great job, Krista!! No shame in being grateful for the Biggest Thing and those little things.

    I love these Five Minute Friday posts, and I totally ponder on it too much too. I have to make myself go on and not waste those five glorious minutes!

    (Did you get my DM's on Twitter, by the way?)

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