Friday, December 30, 2011

Five Minute Friday: Open

What a fun and amazing journey it has been this year, learning and growing through this 5 minute risk-writing!!

It isn't easy. It never is. To put your heart out there in 5 minutes, knowing that your filter is significantly less and that you may reveal something that you normally hide so well. Or that your words will not measure up to the beauty revealed through the other amazing writers joining their morsels on this journey.

Lisa-Jo said this on Twitter yesterday, "I can only write what I know. Not what you know. That's why what we both write matters."

And I remember this mantra that I would remind myself of during my teen years and college days, "Use the talents you possess, for imagine how silent the woods would be if the only birds that sang were the best."

And so I write....
And since I was a part of the first prompt of the year, I am thrilled to be participating in rounding the year off with these 5 minutes.

Topic :: OPEN


GO.

Wide open spaces.
Open hearts.
Open minds.

The search for significance
transparency
REALness

The desire to be held
to be known
to be understood
to be accepted

This journey of life crashing and flowing like the ever present tide filling our broken places and then revealing them again.
In the cracks, somehow.
In the in-between
In the moments where light and dark, death and life, freedom and walls meet.

Open Hands
bleeding
suffering
inviting
welcoming

my pain
my sin
my weakness
my broken heart

And she is there, whispering truth and promise and hope
yielding life and joy with her breath......
.....grace.

STOP.

If you have always wondered about Five Minute Friday, but never hopped over, won't you do that today? And maybe even join in?? You do not have to even have a blog. You can do 5 minutes in the comments below.

It's fun.
It's freeing.
It's scary.
It's life-changing.

Adventure with me???



16 comments:

Amy said... Best Blogger Tips

Oh yes, that desire to be known and understood and accepted is there for me a lot of the time as well.  The openness and freedom of grace is something that I've been learning more about and it never fails to amaze me.  Happy new year, Lindsey!

Shelly Miller said... Best Blogger Tips

revealing our broken places and then filling them again . .. such truth in those words. May the prayer of your heart here be answered in 2012! Blessings!

Sabrina said... Best Blogger Tips

I can tell that you have lots of fun when you write, even when the topic ain't all that fun :)  "Crashing and flowing" is such an appropriate description for life, especially this past year.  It all makes me appreciate grace even more.  I'm also able to better recognize grace too.

I'm so glad to have found your blog through FMF.  I will continue to keep reading here regularly.  Blessings to you :-)

alwaysalleluia said... Best Blogger Tips

I am so glad you 'sing' in this space, I love your mantra about the birds in the forrest. How true it is!  Your voice is beautiful and such a lovely display of your heart. Thank you for this, it's so great, Lindsey! 

thegypsymama said... Best Blogger Tips

I can't believe you've been along for the ride since the beginning!! WOOHOO! Love to you in the new year friend!

~Lisa-Jo

Caroline @UnderGod'sMightyHand said... Best Blogger Tips

I so agree with what you said about Five Minute Friday: "To put your heart out there in 5 minutes, knowing that your filter is significantly less and that you may reveal something that you normally hide so well." I've loved and been thankful for these prompts and this community this year!

Brenda said... Best Blogger Tips

"Open hands...welcoming." What a comforting, beautiful truth. Glad you are "singing!" 

Melissa said... Best Blogger Tips

I missed this week but I love this one. The feeling of open-ness and air breathing it all in. Beautiful friends. 

lindseyfoj said... Best Blogger Tips

Thank you! It has been an AWESOME ride! I am delighted to be a part!

lindseyfoj said... Best Blogger Tips

Me too. Me too!
It is a HUGE blessing in ways that are even hard to articulate. Thank you for being a part and stopping here for this year end prompt.

lindseyfoj said... Best Blogger Tips

Thank you, Brenda...keeping my hands as open as possible to receive what HE has...

lindseyfoj said... Best Blogger Tips

Me too. {as I sit here and take a deep breath}
Something mesmerizing about that, eh?

lindseyfoj said... Best Blogger Tips

Thank you, sweet Kris! YOU are a blessing!

lindseyfoj said... Best Blogger Tips

I just love that you SEE me, in reference to the fun. That means so much because I almost lost that part of me for awhile.  I love visiting back and forth with you weekly...you teach me with your posts...I LOVE that!

lindseyfoj said... Best Blogger Tips

Thank you, Shelly! In His time....I keep reminding myself....it's better than my own....

lindseyfoj said... Best Blogger Tips

It is a beautiful thing -- that grace, right?  I wonder if I will EVER truly GET it! I am excited to be on a constant journey of discovery.....

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