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Five Minute Friday Writing Prompt—Store

Our final FMF prompt for this year—store.

I think of store as always needing to get to for yet another item or gift in preparation for Christmas. Scripture also comes to mind, as its wisdom teaches us to store up treasures in Heaven. Golly! How do I make these two meet? I feel like a slave to one and a slacker towards the other.

Intention and prayer is my answer. I must go to the store to prepare well for Christmas, and I must not loose sight of what I store in Heaven by serving well in this season.

Lord, grant me the wisdom to attend to each store well.

Merry Christmas FMF friends, and dear readers.🌲

Five Minute Friday—Left

‘Why left behind in this skill?’ This was my thought as I read our word prompt for today.

Just what does that mean? The fine art of writing in cursive. It is not taught to our students anymore, and has not been for many years. But why? Why is it not taught?

I have not heard one legitimate reason for our young people being left out of this important skill and artistic expression. I have yet to meet someone who thinks it is a good idea.

Talking to a young woman who was out at a nice restaurant with her teenage nephew only proves my point of this lack in education of our youth. She was reading and thinking outloud about the delicious items on the menu. Which, by the way, was printed entirely in cursive. Her nephew told her he could not read any of it!

This, gentle reader, is a set-up for failure. My husband gave a written note to the young man clerk at the bank this week. He handed it back to my husband and asked him to read it for him. He couldn’t read the cursive...

I thought school was supposed to help set our students up for success?