I’ve missed you all. I haven’t participated in weeks but I’m back. The weekly Five Minute Friday word prompt for this week is “endure.”
How much can we endure? That’s a question I find myself asking in these uncertain times. Yet I’m reminded of a verse from Scripture. “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.”-Romans 5:3-4
Hope is definitely something I can cling to. During this season, I see hope in gardens growing. I see it in fields producing. As my friend Susan often reminds us, “Hope changes everything.”
I also see the many in our world who should not endure anymore violence. We must speak up for the injustices in our world. I want a better world for future generations.
But clinging to hope, I trust in God who promises to never leave us or forsake us. There are things that I can and will endure. I’ll endure love…the love of friends and family. I’ll endure sharing my bed with sweet Luna and handsome Neville. I’ll endure sitting outside reading a good book with my feet in my kiddy pool. (I just started reading Caroline Fraser’s book Prairie Fires)
What can and will you endure? Moments of joy?
I will endure always having dirty dishes in my sink because it means God blessed my family with food today, with a house (even though it doesn’t have a dishwasher), and people who share my life with me. =)
I like the way you turned enduring toward good things, “I’ll endure love…the love of friends and family.” My first inclination when to the negative, that’s the tone of Webster’s definition. I like yours better. 🙂