Friday, October 21, 2016

Park

Let's park here for a while with  the engine running and the heat on. We can open the windows just enough to balance the temperature. We want to be comfortable, not too hot, not too cold. Let's  not move. Let's idle in complacency. We can talk about going and growing so much until we really believe it is happening. Oh, but then, suddenly, the engine stops.

I don't have to be moving for the tank to run dry.

Five minute Friday with Kate Montaug


10 comments:

  1. I like your writing (peeking at both this week's and last week's FMF posts). I like the sense you give of me being in the scene with you, and the way you leave me thinking. So nice to have had the chance to drop in!

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    1. Thanks so much for stopping here. Feel free to peek all you want.

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  2. So much truth packed into this, "I don't have to be moving for the tank to run dry." Glad I stopped by today!

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  3. mary, nice to meet you. i agree with carolina! great point. i need to hear it.

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    1. Thanks for visiting! Love meeting so many writers!

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  4. Well-said, Mary. People who knew me well always likened me to a shark (for various reasons) but a salient one was that like that noble fish, I had to be in motion, or I would surely die.

    #1 at FMF this week.
    http://blessed-are-the-pure-of-heart.blogspot.com/2016/10/your-dying-spouse-222-question-of.html

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    1. Tthere are definitely times for both, moving and staying. Takes some real discernment. Ever learning. Thanks for reading. Have a blessed day!

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