Five Minute Friday—Season

Well, as Christian bloggers, I do not know who would not think of Ecclesiastes 3 with this prompt. It truly is one of my favorite chapters in Scripture; To everything there is a season… Although I thought of 2 Timothy 4:2: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season.

So the question for myself is—how can I be prepared in and out of season? What exactly does this look like? Golly, sometimes I am not even prepared to make dinner for us at the last hour! Yet when I think on this verse, I am reminded to always have my eye and thought toward Jesus. I know then He will establish my thoughts, for He promises that. I find it a wonderful thing to keep myself focused on Jesus, yet I fail to do just that.

I do like being prepared though, i.e. prepared for the day, putting things in order before I need them, and planning ahead. Though I may not always know just what I am going to prepare for supper one night, I endeavor to keep my eye on Jesus. For He shall keep me prepared both in and out of season by His good grace and love towards us, if we would just turn to Him. Glory!

Five Minute Friday Writing Prompt—Anticipate

I love to anticipate. Do you? The days leading up to an upcoming party, trip or big event. To anticipate it for me has always added extra value to the event and even more time for enjoying it.

What will the weather be? Will this event be enjoyed by attendees? Are they looking forward to this event as I am? Would I ever want to do it again? I can say the biggest event I anticipate is meeting Jesus!

Sometimes even a rather frightful event can be made better in how we anticipate for it. Would you agree? Often those things I was not looking forward to turned out better than I anticipated!

How about you?