You Don't Want to Miss This... a Five Minute Friday post

My calendar this week was full of all kinds of bossy... and what I had planned on Tuesday had to be rescheduled for Thursday, thus - I missed the party! Still... I can't not write... so here we go!

This is Five Minute Friday (- a five minute timed free write) and our One Word Prompt for the day is: MISS

{GO}

I reread an old post this morning. You know, it was one of those facebook memories and it was a year ago... a little wrap up of my time spent in Nebraska at Jumping Tandem.  

It made me miss the peace and the stillness before we jumped right in to the crazy!

It made me miss the quiet before the storm and it reminded me to stay present --even as the winds come straight at me and the waves swirl all around.  

I know this... this slowing to breathe... this Sabbath 
Rest that is necessary and wise.  

I know this.  It's just I don't always do it!

And yet - when I miss the least amount of details and accomplish the most amount of Kingdom good, it is when I'm remaining present, holding both my heart and hands wide open to the possibilities of the day.

It's when I am childlike.  

And when we can be like that... well, we miss the hard parts of adulting and we find wonder and blessings all around us... we find the things we don't want to miss!

My calendar was overbooked this week and yet I penciled in moments here and there set aside simply for being fully present.  Sometimes that meant being fully present in a conversation across a table, or being fully present to focus and get a task done... sometimes it meant simply leaving a stack of things undone to go sit on the patio for 5 minutes of silence.

Staying Present is like magic... full of wonder and grace. It shifts your perspective and brings details in to focus and it makes life easier to stay prioritized in the correct order.

It's when our days get bossy and busy and our communication is rushed as we are just passing by that we begin to miss things.  

We miss the actual reason we are still here on this earth, breathing in air and living out our days. 

We are here for Him... we are His gift to those around us and I don't know about you -but I have found that when I am racing through my days and frantically crossing things off of lists, well-- I can feel like not so much a gift to anyone! 

I can feel a bit ragged and worn out.

But when I slow even just a little and truly breathe in deep and actually look around the room... gaze across the horizon, and ask Him for His perspective... well,

He's always happy to give us a little glimpse...

 {STOP} 

I think He loves it when we ask this... because it is His hearts' desire to give us a glimpse into His Glory and to draw us closer to His heart, so that... 

SO. THAT. we will fill up and pour out, over and over and over again! 

So that we will be His hands and heart wide open to the possibilities of the day... childlike, and full of faith!

Linking up with Kate Motaung and the #fmfparty Community today.  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: "MISS"

The FMF lowdown: The gathering happens on Twitter on Thursday nights & then we write our hearts out & hit publish all over the interwebs on Thursday & Friday (& sometimes on Tuesdays!) It's where we encourage & uplift... where we share prayer requests & praise reports... where we talk food & friends & we find support & kindred hearts. It's where we are reminded that life is good & God is good & we're not alone... & then we all write for five minutes flat, a flash mob of wordsmiths letting our hearts & our fingers do the talking tapping & we hit publish before we can second guess it all away. We'd love to have you join us!