Slow Down... Let's VISIT - A Five Minute Friday Post

It seems Thursday nights can't get here soon enough some weeks!  

I love the #fmfparty Community that gathers on Twitter and all across the Inter Webs on Thursday nights and on Fridays... on into the next week, where we encourage and uplift... where we share prayer requests and praise reports... where we talk food and friends and we find support and kindred hearts and we are reminded that life is good and God is good and we are not alone... and then we all write for five minutes flat, a flash mob of wordsmiths letting our hearts and our fingers do the talking tapping and we hit publish before we can second guess... we just let Him flow! 

Here is our Word Prompt for the day: VISIT

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To Visit...

To connect, on purpose... to set aside time and space to invest, and spend wisely this currency of time.  

Yes. This.   This is what we long for when we long for Community.  It's not just the not being alone. No, it's also the intentionally being together!

My Honey and I... we do this. We are wired for relationship and we place a high value on valuing others. We host a Home Group on Wednesday evenings again and filling this house with friends for the purpose of visiting --with each other, and with God... this is our Jam!

Week after week, we set an atmosphere and set aside time to fill these walls and make room for a little visiting, in hopes of a Visitation!

Last night, our girlie texted, wanting to stop by. I told her to come on over. Our group was winding down and she would not be interrupting. (As if, ever!) 

Still - she responded:

"What does Winding Down mean in Aggett time?"

Yeah. She knows us... 

But she is wired this way too and rather than going home to an empty house, she came over and snuggled under blankets and cuddled on the couch and we enjoyed a visit... in fact, her visit extended overnight and I got to wake up with her just down the hall, like the old days when she still called this place her home.  Sophie Hudson is right. Sometimes home really is where your people are!

We got to spend the morning together getting ready for our day, visiting the whole time. It was that blissful mix of chattiness and quiet.  The romantic rhythm of grace in motion... of reconnecting and talking about nothing, and everything, at the same time!

Once she was gone, I quickly moved on with the weekly visit with a friend as we walked and talked and drank in beauty...

Then this afternoon, with a long list of things I had planned to do, once again the Lord beckoned me to a sunny spot on the floor, with an open Bible and a prayer... 

When He says our name and sings over us with Love and lovingly asks us to stop by for a visit, how can we deny His Father Heart?  And when, on our own, we call out to Him just to catch up and spend a little time together... oh my how that blesses Him!

We all need a taste of Home... we all need to be reminded that we are welcome... that there is always time to catch up, to cuddle up, to be reminded that we are loved! We all hunger and thirst for a little visit, and just maybe a Visitation, too!

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I have been focusing on 'better' time management this year, and it's been going great! Right in the middle of nailing it, in the past few weeks, I am hearing Him call to me to come away with Him. It turns out even in my efficiency, I am not the boss of me after all! 

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 "VISIT"


Oh ...the fine print: if you don't know what FMF is!  Five Minute Fridays have been hosted by Lisa Jo Baker.  This week we start gathering over at Kate Motaung's.  FMF 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!

I am also linking up with the Community over at:

How about you?  How long has it been since you have visited 'home'? Can I encourage you to just sit with Him... catch up... cuddle up...  and remember that you are loved?