We're In A Race Against Time, Love and Fear of Love Not Being Real {Day 8}

On Fridays, I join up with Lisa-Jo Baker and others at her blog to write for five minutes with a one-word prompt, to be a free bird, writing without worrying if it's just right, without editing or backtracking.

  GO. 

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We are in a race against time, love
against all forces that drag us down and hold us back
Can you see me?
Can you see me bleeding love for you?
They said we weren't supposed to be together
Remember that?
And so many years we've been together
And so much has been said and done
And when two people love one another but live in pain,
I wonder where God is in that
Sometimes I wonder if soul-mates don't exist,
and maybe it's just that God watches us make vows
and under God we keep them
on this holy ground
We're in a race against time, love
We're getting older and I don't want to waste time
on these words that hurt
Let's love passionately and rightly
and let's fulfill sacred vows
and let's not fill one another up
Let God do that
But let's just love on one another
Lavish it thickly, like when I wake and feel you there
in the coffee and special cup you laid out for me
Or when I make you stand there and press into me,
take the hug you are unsure of,
and tell you to squeeze me harder until you relax.
And we're in a race against time, love
I want to love you well before it's too late.

STOP.

{This was more like 7 minutes; I awakened with this on my heart this morning--and fingers weigh heavy on keyboards when our hearts are heavy.}

You can click here below to go to Lisa-Jo's site and see more 5 min. narratives on RACE--our one-word prompt for today.....











Linking up with The Nester, and all the other 31-Dayers....This ought to be one wild, brave ride...

Also linking with Laura for Faith-Filled Friday .

Do you struggle with fear of the love you have not being real, do you struggle in your human skin in your marriage? Do you struggle with fears of not having enough time to figure it out properly before it's too late? Please tell me your story? Have you seen God redeem these doubts, these concerns? Have you found grace? Your comments so encourage me. I draw strength from your kind words and knowing you were here. My faith walk is seasoned with the right ingredients when you hang around...

Some other 31 Day collectives I'm loving: Shelly @ Redemptions Beauty, Amber Haines , and Lisa-Jo


This is one post in a series of 31 days of Fear. You can find the entire 31 Day collective here.  I have chosen to do this one on FEAR, because it seems to be something I keep wrestling with over and over, something that keeps me in chains, pins me down, won't let me free. I hope you will come with me on this journey--to get a taste of glorious redemption as I soul-search and look for Jesus smack-dab in the middle of my fears. And Jesus sits with sinners. I won't have to look very far.

Couldn't we all use some freedom from those fear-chains that bind? I pray God gives me the strength and the courage to complete 31 days--y'all, it's going to be hard on this 'ol gal to write every.single.day. Pray for me?   

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