Five Minute Friday || Fight

A new year. The first Friday. It's time to write my first 5 minute Friday post of the year.
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It's a great community. We just write, unveiled and naked. Before your mind runs away with craze about writing naked... I'm not referring to your person being naked without clothing. I'm referring to writing unhindered, and open-minded. Strip off all the masks. Tear down all the walls. Be the real you. No more hiding. You'll receive lots of love in this community.

Today's prompt - Fight

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I don't give up without a fight. Fighting seems to come easily for me. As a child I was bullied. For whatever reason, I couldn't figure out. One day walking home from school some girls were walking behind me. They started in picking on me. I finally had enough.  I snapped. Just before we reached the corner where we separated to go our own way she hit me in the back of the head. I turned, grabbed her by the hair, and threw her to the ground and called her a choice word. I knew I was in trouble for saying it. But, I thought to myself, it was all worth it. Those girls never bothered me again. Because of my home life I was a frustrated child. Because of that frustration I turned into the bully. I started fighting other kids. The previous event gave me confidence in myself to stand up to others.

Fighting isn't always the answer. However, standing up for ourselves is a good fight. Because of my fighting I've been able to overcome the low self-esteem.

I believe those who bullied me saw how down trodden I was. It didn't that I had to wear glasses. People can be very cruel. Learning to mentally fight back helps to overcome those negative people. It took me a long time, but, I was able to overcome it.

Keep on fighting, don't give up!

STOP

A New Life

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Thankful Thursday [1/28/2010]

 

If you'd like to participate, just click one or both of the images above to land at the original blog to get image for your blog post. Next write down some things you are thankful for this week.

Here's my list for this week:

• God never ceases to amaze me. HE's more than enough.
  
• God is really doing a work in my husband and myself since our miracle in August 09.
  
• We still have a roof over our heads. Something went amiss with our mortgage.
  
• Praise an awesome God for all of you who stop by my blog.
  
• We're blessed to have such a wonderful four-legged girl, Misa, the wonder dog. If you'd like to see a picture of her you can click my P365 photo-blog link on the side. There's one of her there in the latest post.
  

Please join me in Thankful Thursday and give thanks to God for what He's been doing in your life.

Happy Thursday!

January 1, 2010

I was reading my bloggy friend Paula's post. As she talked about her goals she listed An Imperfect Perfection's post discussing a word list for 2010. I've decided to also adopt a word list. See mine below:

My word list for 2010
Using Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law."
I will add honor, obey and praise to make up 12. Each month I will focus on each word as a theme for that month.

2010 Monthly Word list
January: Joy
February: Love
March: Peace
April: Longsuffering (enduring persecution)
May: Kindness
June: Goodness
July: Faithfullness
August: Gentleness
September: Self-control
October: Honor
November: Obedience
December: Praise

These lines below are from "The Gate of the Year," a poem written in 1908 by Minnie Louise Haskins:
I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year
"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown."
And he replied, "Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!"

Quote:
"God holds the future in His hands
With grace sufficient day by day;
Through good or ill He gently leads,
If we but let Him have His way." --Rohrs

My prayer is that each one of you will adopt something or create something for the coming year to grow your relationship with the LORD!

Happy New Year!

Thankful Thursday #59

If you'd like to participate, just click the image above to land at the original post to get image for your blog post. Next write down five things you are thankful for this week.

Here's my list for this week:

• I'm thankful for a loving, merciful and gracious God.
• I'm thankful for a loving, caring and great husband.
• I'm thankful for a loving family.
• I'm thankful for the end to another year and the beginning of a new year.
• I'm thankful for great friends.

Watch for my post for January 1st. It will set my blogging up for the next year. I challenge each of you to look into something like it that will help you grow your faith in God.

Happy New Year!