When Glue Won't Hold Us All Together - Five Minute Friday

I had to miss out on the Twitter party and that means it was almost like two weeks in a row (since I left early last week!) so I am missing my community, but I am planning on blocking out next Thursday, arriving early and staying late! Yeah - I'm a big talker like that... but time will tell! Still, know that I missed you all!

Oh but - first - the fine print: if you don't know what FMF is!  Five Minute Fridays are hosted by Lisa Jo Baker.  It is open to anyone, so to learn more about it - and to jump in yourself (the more the merrier!) or just to find a linky to see what everyone is writing about today - click HERE!  The idea is to simply write... for Five Minutes flat... no editing, no deep thinking - or at least REthinking, no spell check - just write! Let it flow! We all write using a prompt that Lisa posts at 10pm Thursday night (EST.)  I'm loving the community of amazing bloggers and the creativity that flows from these magical Five Minutes!

So - here goes: Five Minute Friday - The Word Prompt is: GLUE

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We forget... we all forget so easily.  
We forget that fixing the broken, busted up pieces is not really our job. We tape and we glue and we pray and wait, holding our breath only to find ourselves broken and busted up all over again, with glue on our fingertips, binding us up to the brokeneness that we want gone.

There is no glue that can hold this wounded world in place and make it look like new.

No.  It's Friday... when all is dark and doubtful. 

It's Friday and we have no answers and what we thought we knew is fuzzy and the tests come back inconclusive and the doctors can't know where the blood is coming from but they all agree it is coming... leaking... bleeding out somewhere.  It could be a heart issue, or it could be because there are scrapes and bruises and flesh that was recently laid wide open. 

Not just for Dad... but for all of us. For you too.  

We are all laid out open, slowly losing life, unaware. We are seeking for hope and healing... for solid ground and a way out of this sad and stormy day that just won't seem to end.

Answers are slow to come and confusion rises up fierce.  We are all bruised and battered and windblown come Friday night... and as the skies turn black and death seethes ragged breaths and sings haunting songs of victory, it's easy to feel like the enemy wins.  We can lean back in defeat and come into agreement without even realizing it as our thoughts turn to 'he always wins.'

Except... (But God...)  Except he doesn't... We know... we've heard it before and we know it to be true, but we forget.

Can I remind you once again... Sunday is coming. With the dawning of a new day and the rising of the Son, Light shines on answers and Love binds up wounds... Hope is stirred up and spilling over and Victory?  Victory is ours!

On Easter Sunday - yes.  But on any given Sunday... because He lives, and He wears the Victor's Crown... we win!

I don't know what kind of terrible sad Good Friday that you may be facing, but can I encourage you? Sunday is coming! 

Sunday, after Friday is blooddrenched and Saturday is bloodstained... Sunday is washed and cleansed... It's brand new and full of Promise.  Sunday is all praise and answered prayers and bright, happy, shiny. 

Sunday is Him... it's all Him and He swoops in, and suddenly, in His Presence, the gluey residue of trying to fix it ourselves melts away.

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Praying for you and yours over this Easter weekend.  It may be dark and doubtful for you right now... I know it's Friday.  But my friend... hold on!  The Blood covers and heals and makes whole better than any other glue I know of and He poured it out - every single drop - on purpose, with purpose, for me and for you. It's Friday - but Sunday is comin'!!! I promise you, Sunday is coming!


Five Minute Fridays gives us the chance to dive right in and share what He puts on our hearts! Click here to read what others have to say about "GLUE"  

Praying you have a Blessed Easter!