Today is Day 12 and Five Minute Friday over at Lisa-Jo’s.

Now, set your timer, clear your head, for five minutes to just write without worrying if it’s just right or not.

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.
3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community..

Oh and Ahem, if you would take pity and turn off comment verification, it would make leaving some love on your post that much easier for folks!

OK, are you ready? In the spirit of welcoming the 31 Dayers to join us, won’t you please give me your best five minutes on:::

Today we are linking up & writing about…

‘Race’.

The race is on. We are in a race. The race against time. The race of life. We are told to fight the good fight, run for the prize. Some days we are weary and that is really hard to do. I am in that position right now. I am tired. I am weary. I don’t want to run in this race anymore; I want a ride to the finish line. Remember Mr. Bean in the Olympics? That’s what I feel like I’m doing right now – falling behind. Further and further behind. I’d love for an old car to come pick me up and take me to the end. I promise I wouldn’t trip the person running next to me. I don’t even need to finish first. I just want to finish. and finish well.

I’m struggling with making the right decisions & not being overwhelmed with figuring out what that ‘right’ is. I’m reading Grace for the Good Girl by Emily Freeman. She could totally be writing about me! I’m not doing well following the rules right now. Which makes me feel like a failure. Again, that tired & weary part comes into play. So then I tell myself, remember “He has a plan, a perfect plan. And it will all happen for His Glory in his perfect timing.” We even listened to an Adventures in Odyssey about Jeremiah 29:11 today.

Yep – total fail once again. Can’t seem to type without automatically fixing typos. I spend more time remembering I wasn’t supposed to be backspacing about half way through….I’m going to choose to not be concerned about that anymore. 😀  I get the gist – don’t over think. Just write. Someday it will be in pretty format – actually, it won’t because I always format at the end.

For today’s 31 Days of Life, it is going to be about running the race of life. I’m not going to try to add any more to this concept of race. As I said, we are in a race. We are commanded to run for the prize {do our best}, but our Father never said, or even implied, we had to be perfect. In fact, He says no one is perfect – why do I waste so much time trying to avoid mistakes?