Five Minute Friday Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/five-minute-friday/ Discovering Delight & Dwelling in Our Days Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:56:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/adelightfulglow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-1-of-1-4.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Five Minute Friday Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/five-minute-friday/ 32 32 26348127 Three Antidotes Against Discouragement, Inadequacies and Comparison https://adelightfulglow.com/three-antidotes-against-discouragement-inadequacies-and-comparison/ https://adelightfulglow.com/three-antidotes-against-discouragement-inadequacies-and-comparison/#comments Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:56:09 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=30637 Voxer beeps and I pick up my phone to listen to the incoming message. My sister and I chat back and forth with our handy-dandy app. She shares about the struggles she’s been facing and I confess the irritations and insecurities I’ve been fighting against all morning. We ponder a few questions batting them back [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/three-antidotes-against-discouragement-inadequacies-and-comparison/feed/ 6 30637 What Do I Have To Offer? https://adelightfulglow.com/what-do-i-have-to-offer/ https://adelightfulglow.com/what-do-i-have-to-offer/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2019 19:35:02 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=30174 What do I have to offer? The truth? This is the question I ask far too often. I don’t feel especially talented or called. I don’t have great ambitions or terrific dreams. I’m not a mover or changer. I don’t thrive in large crowds and one of my favorite things is curling up with a [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/what-do-i-have-to-offer/feed/ 7 30174 Doubt {Five Minute Friday} https://adelightfulglow.com/doubt-five-minute-friday/ https://adelightfulglow.com/doubt-five-minute-friday/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:34:31 +0000 http://www.adelightfulglow.com/?p=17674 Doubt. Doubt means I’m all out. Of trust and I’m second-guessing. Questioning truths I know deep in my soul. Doubt lets Satan get a foothold. Doubt lets him throw accusations at me. He lobs them with precision. He is evil through and through, but he is good at hitting his target. Doubt. Doubt may be a [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/doubt-five-minute-friday/feed/ 6 17674 Dream On! {Five Minute Friday} https://adelightfulglow.com/dream-on-five-minute-friday/ https://adelightfulglow.com/dream-on-five-minute-friday/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:12:49 +0000 http://www.adelightfulglow.com/?p=16096 Dreams and hopes and plans. They are important. They offer adventure and hope and life. Life without the looking forward or the what-ifs or the reaching-for-the-stars becomes flat-lined and dull and dreary. A dismal thing to trudge through completing tasks, but missing the miracles woven in the moments. The clean, tidy kitchen with each dish [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/dream-on-five-minute-friday/feed/ 8 16096 Flat-On-My-Back-Sciatic-Blues {Five Minute Friday} https://adelightfulglow.com/flat-on-my-back-sciatic-blues-five-minute-friday/ https://adelightfulglow.com/flat-on-my-back-sciatic-blues-five-minute-friday/#comments Fri, 29 May 2015 13:11:07 +0000 http://www.adelightfulglow.com/?p=15416 A year ago, I was flat on my back and then flat on my face. Literally. Lower back pain that kept bothering me and continued to get worse and then erupted into sciatic pain down my leg and into my foot. And if I were going to choose a color to represent this haze of [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/flat-on-my-back-sciatic-blues-five-minute-friday/feed/ 6 15416 Thankful That the Bible Meets Me in Real Life {Five Minute Friday} https://adelightfulglow.com/thankful-that-the-bible-meets-me-in-real-life-five-minute-friday/ https://adelightfulglow.com/thankful-that-the-bible-meets-me-in-real-life-five-minute-friday/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:09:55 +0000 http://www.adelightfulglow.com/?p=14605 Life is real, Life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal, Dust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow {Find all the eloquent words here ~} REAL. The writing prompt for this Five Minute Friday. The verse above was one of the first things to pop [...]

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