Last week I didn’t participate in Five Minute Friday because I couldn’t FOCUS!  My brain was just too scattered.

Here are the directions from Lisa-Jo at Gypsy Mama, for Five Minute Friday: Wide:

Now, set your timer, clear your head, for five minutes of free writing without worrying about getting it right.

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? Please give us your best five minutes on:

Wide {is a not-so-wide word, looks kind of funny centered :-D}                                     {Go}

My first thought when reading the word wide…I wish I wasn’t. {hmm…not sure that is where this was supposed to go}

Then I tried to reign in my thoughts, second thought?  Is that the same as being spread too thin?

Then 3rd try, I thought – what Spiritually can I come up with?  And the song, “deep & wide, deep & wide,”…. ya, not much in depth thinking going on here.  Finally – I thought of how deep, how wide, how immeasurable His love is.  I am so very, very thankful for that love.

Random thoughts on ‘wide’: Right now our area is flooding, as in people having to be evacuated.  My next thoughts went to creeks/rivers too wide to be contained in their banks.  Then I started thinking how so many circumstances seem like those rushing, out-of-control, ditches/creeks/rivers and I am choosing to step back and take a deep breath.

I want to enjoy the journey of life.  

Not be overwhelmed by writing about the word, “wide”.  I wish I could think quicker “on my feet”.  I do better with time to think things through & re-write. Lots.

{Stop}

I want to explain this, this week isn’t a whole lot better in the focusing department/accomplishing anything – but I’m pursuing anyway.  I’m hoping by forcing  myself to do this, I will get better at thinking/speaking/writing “on the fly/by the seat of my pants/quicker on my feet”.  Someday.

I have so many things running around in my head right now, I feel really silly for stopping to post such a quick-not-thought-out post, and poorly written too.  Yep, being vulnerable, on the world-wide-web… Why do I miss blogging when I get stage fright for “talking in front” of all you…I’m rambling to avoid pushing the blue ‘Publish’ button off to my right… I don’t know the answers, but I know the One who does.  Go, link up your own Five Minute Friday post – come back and let me know.  I’d love to know what you think of as ‘wide’.

Here is a photo where I’m incredibly thankful for the wide view.  Shows many things to me.  Rainbow = representation of His promise to never flood the whole world again.  He keeps ALL His promises. Blue sky and stormy skies so close, yet if either was overhead you wouldn’t necessarily be able to see the whole picture = life; we get too caught up seeing just our circumstance & not looking at the whole picture.  The definition in the clouds.  Even though the intensity of the storms in life are incredibly defined right now, there is blue sky coming.  The storm will end.  The sun will come out again.  I NEVER get tired of this view.