{last}: five minute friday
Go
Two weeks of school and summer is a fuzzy memory. The morning is a blur. The coffee is to go. Bites of oatmeal and blueberries happen at stop lights and train tracks. The days are packed and the afternoons slip away with homework and dinner and bath and books. The nights are filled with visits from friends and writing and art are left for last.
But on Friday afternoon, after school, we make summer last. They jump into the pool and laugh and jump again and again and again. I watch them. Just watch them and let the minutes tick past and I don’t care because their giggles and smiles and crazy jumps restore summer. They remind me I have time. I have time to breathe and write and watch.
After awhile I open my notebook and marks become words and sentences and fill one page and another. All of the reasons I’m not enough slip away onto those pages and I’m filled with Truth. Maybe it’s not because everything is jammed into a single day, but because I’m not taking time to make the most important connection of the day. It is here, making summer last that I’m reminded there is a God who can shoulder my stress and frustrations and busyness, if only I take the time to put Him first instead of last.
Stop
This summer, I came across a writing challenge hosted by Lisa-Jo Baker that I thought I’d give a try.For more information, check out this link to Five Minute Friday. The nitty-gritty is you write for 5 minutes on a word, then you share your post, and you comment on another. I hope you’ll join too.
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Beautiful. We live on a farm so I do more making the winter last than wanting the summer's work to stretch on and on, but the sentiment–yes, yes, and amen.
Love this. It used to be me. Now I want fall and winter to last. No kids to do summer with anymore. But the next season is just as good. Looking forward.
Love how the frenzy of the school week stops and rests with laughter and splashing and a swim on Friday afternoon. Thank you for sharing the Five Minute Fridays. I like how the prompts pull ideas from a single word.
Thanks for the reminder to put things in the right order!