FMF : Older...

Wow, am I productive today, or what?

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It's been a day of cleaning and hosting here at The Home Front, and while I feel as if I didn't get as much done as I would have liked, I have spent some time writing.  My instructor would be so proud!

Anyway,

it's time for Five Minute Friday.

So get ready to give your best 5 minutes of unediting, unqualified word-weaving to this prompt:

Older

Then link up your post with Lisa-Jo at The Gypsy Mama

hop around to give some other brave souls some encouraging feedback.

Ready?

Here          we          go.



Older…

I always thought that when I got older

I’d feel less like a child—

now that I’m 33 (just a couple weeks

ago) I realize that I’ll always feel

like a child, always searching, always

uncertain, always doubting the truth

that You give me, like when You say

that You love me and I’m beautiful

and forgiven and free, but I hide

my head by tucking it down

against my shoulder, blushing,

protesting without speech, but with

the broken-beaten-down bend

to my neck and the helpless shrug

of the shoulders that I’m helpless to stop

even though I know that I’m not

the wise one, I don’t know all,

but I know that You are, and You do,

so I’ll try to spend this year and every one

to come learning to hear You and trust

© Victoria L. Banks

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