On Fridays I like to link with The Gypsy Mama for 5 Minute Fridays where we write unhindered and unedited for 5 minutes straight—addressing a different topic each week. Only lately it seems I don’t get 5 minutes to write until Saturday morning.

This week’s prompt, Perspective, is perfect for this time in my life.

So here goes …

GO

The day wasn’t much different from any other; the moment similar to many.

Only this time the weight laid heavy on my heart.

Tears came hard and fast as I contemplated how to take one more step, one more day with this burden of caring for my daughter day after day.

Then relief erupted nearly as suddenly. Blessed relief in the pure joy of living … this life … poured out for me! This life as the honored mother of such a precious gift.

One hour I’m so excited for my graduating son, I can hardly contain myself; the next I’m filling Lake Erie with my tears, imagining him on his own in a few short months.

My mood is as changeable as the weather in Iowa. If you don’t like it, just wait a few minutes, it will be different.

There are days when I am bursting with the love and passion I feel for my Lord. And the next I’m doing isolation and confusion.

Sometimes I am wrapped with the confidence to boldly share my story; other times I’m gripped with fear.

Such fickleness is disconcerting, even a little maddening (okay, maybe a lot)! But the answer lies simply in perspective.

When God designed my life, He planned it perfectly. However, I only see imperfectly. My eyes (and mind) can’t comprehend the enormity of a life made in God’s image.

So I will continue to stumble. I will continue to cry one minute and laugh the next. I will continue to be on cloud nine this day and deep in the pit of despair the next.

I will continue to reflect bits of God’s glory only now and again. But I won’t give up. Because one day, I will have the perspective of the Lord …

… and “see” that it is all grace!

STOP

“For as heaven is higher than earth,
so My ways are higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

—Isaiah 55:9, HCSB

Join in the Discussion: Have you been discouraged when some days it seems you take more steps backward then forward in your spirit? What actions are you taking to lessen the feelings of confusion, isolation, and heavy weight of sadness?

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