Well, it’s Tuesday already, but this post is part of the Five Minute Friday blog link-up ( check it out here) where I’m joining up with a community of writers and bloggers of all ages and stages who gather around a single word prompt to freewrite for five minutes without editing. This week’s prompt is [Present}.
Facebook has a feature I enjoy called “Memories.” One click on the memories tab gives me visual reminders of things I have posted on that site a year ago or more. It’s a virtual photo journal reminding me of special times in my life like birthdays, vacations, Bible verses that spoke to my heart, time with the grandkids, or what was blooming in my garden at that time. Many of the photos from the past decade feature my sweet mom. Those photo memories of my mom generally bring a smile, or a hearty laugh, and (only sometimes) a few tears sprinkled here and there. But this week, the fact that I was able to take so many photos of her served to remind me of the amazing opportunity God gave me to give my mother a very special gift in the last years of her life.
The gift of being present.
Present. The gift I’m thankful I could give.
Barefoot Lily Lady 
Lovely, thank you!
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Well, damn it. I’m dying of cancer, and a professional badass, and you choked me up, left me without words, except these, below.
And I am writing them through tears.
We the proud will always dare
to challenge time to freeze,
but blessed are those who choose to care
for the least of these,
felled now by the heartless sword
and calendar’s cruel insolence
held captive without spoken word
in some deathless silence;
but you, the brave, do venture forth
to touch theat lonely heart
imprisoned in its frozen north
and play the Saviour’s part
in bringing light where there was not
to a soul the world forgot.
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Andrew, your poetic response has ME choked up with tears. I hope and pray that there is someone in your life who is present. Thank you for taking the time to express your thoughts so eloquently – I will never forget your gift of words. I’m spending time in prayer for you right now.
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I love this. Thank you so much for sharing this. To God be the glory. Blessings.
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