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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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Five Minute Friday Writing on 'Brave" 3/16

On Fridays,

The Gypsy Mamma says... 

Around here 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.

Where your words are welcome, just as they are! (<–-Tweet this!)

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking
2. Link back here 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:

:Brave… 

just the word makes me cringe ~what do i know about being brave,
yet how many times have i had to step into those oversized shoes... 
best thought of when not in situations
requiring the need for.
then again, when you need to be brave,
you don't have time to think about what you need to be being!
sometimes too, it's others who point out bravery
when all i've seen was doing what i was called to do.

these last few months of standing for justice for the elderly and disabled;
advocating for them in the larger picture,

has been a time i am needing to be brave.

but i haven't seen that til well into the 'being'!

there's my 5 Minutes on Friday ~

what is your response?

let everyone know what 'brave' is to you by linking here

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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.