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Friday !

First, I am Welcoming 

every New Follower that's taken time to GFC!!

what lovely surprises each day to find a new icon representing

your presence on the journey with Faith Hope & Cherrytea !

Thank YOU!

know you're valued and appreciated as a New & Dear Friend

along with Every Faithful Friend who continues to take tea at our table !

Today we're joining  Five Minute Friday @ the Gypsy Mama
we write for five minutes flat on Fridays.

We finger paint with words.
We try to remember what it was like to just write
{without worrying if it’s just right or not..}

Want to play Five Minute Friday? It’s easy peasy! (<–-Tweet this!)

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing,
     no over thinking, no backtracking
2. Link back and invite others to join in.
3. Meet & encourage someone who

     linked up before you.

OK, are you ready? Give us your best five minutes on:

Loud: 

is how i love my music!
turn up the volume and feel the rhythm
hear, really hear the music

the varied instruments, the intonations, soaring vocals...
feel what the music is saying to me
in my heart, my spirit, my soul...
allow it to penetrate past the superficial background noise
of life around me
let it take me somewhere new
somewhere else
to that place of vision, of new horizons,
of new ways of seeing... of being
Yes!
definitely
Turn up the music ~ LOUD!

OK, show us what you’ve got...

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5 Minute Friday: Beauty

from the beautiful Gypsy Mama 

comes today's word prompt ~

beauty...

This week we’ve been talking about how to weed out the lie that you are not beautiful. 

We’ve been talking about the surprising place that ugly sometimes comes from.
And we agreed to go on a beauty hunt together this week.

To write down beauty everywhere we found it in ourselves- 

laundry folded in love, beds made, dinners cooked, lattes picked up for self or another.
The red high heels,
the swimsuit that shows off the wonder that your body has delivered,
the family legacy of freckles.
Even the tired eyes from being up all night with sick kids.

We agreed to write it down – write down the only definition of beauty that matters:

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14.

Want to just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. Want to take five minutes with me and share what you found?

Here’s how we do it:

1. Write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing.

2. Link back at Gypsy Mama and invite others to join in. 

3. Go and tell the person who linked up before you
what their words meant to you. Every writer longs to feel heard.

OK, are you ready? Give me your best five minutes for the prompt:

Go ...

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Five Minute Friday . . .

a FuN friday meme from The Gypsy Mama.  like to write?  feel free to join us...

I like chocolate. I like words.

And I never tell my chocolate what’s wrong with it, how it could have been improved, and how disappointed I am in it before I eat it.

I. Just. Eat. It.

That’s what we do around here on Fridays. We eat words. Straight up. Without second guessing, editing, or criticizing them. We simply savour all their deliciousness. For a full five minutes. You should try it. It’s a calorie-rich experience sans calories.

Wanna just write? Without wondering if it’s just right?

1. Indulge in five rich, delicious minutes of pure writing.
2. Tell your readers you’re linking up here and invite them to dig in too.
3. And most importantly, go visit, read, and compliment the five minute chef who served something up right before you.

OK, are you ready? Give your best five minutes for the prompt: 
Every Day...
is a new beginning.
fresh.  unclaimmed territory.  expansive horizon.  ready to be claimed, explored, discovered, valued, envisioned.
what i do with it is my response.  my response to a gift freely given.  voluntarily squandered or voluntarily invested.  my  choice. 
how to begin?  prayer.  an offering.  offering the day back to the Giver.  a request.  requesting the guidance, the establishment of thought required to enjoy and employ this day wisely.  commitment of the day to its Creator.  commmitment of myself to Creator's service, enjoyment and delight.  that i might be who God has designed and desires me to be.  that i might do as God wills.
STOP.

OK, your turn – show us what you’ve got.
{ just click here to come over and play along.}
you'll find a linky list with more great 'Every Day...' posts.

Charlotte and Ginger  also have more spiritually themed posts on their linky at Spiritual Sundays.