Modern
Day Samaritan Woman
FIVE
MINUTE FRIDAY
BACON
When
time permits I join a group of writers for Five Minute Friday, hosted by Kate Motaung. Every
week we write for five minutes after receiving a one word prompt. No editing or
over thinking involved….Just writing for the love of writing. For more
information please visit Kate Motaung at Heading Home.
The word for this week is:
START:
Does
it really matter in the long run who brings the bacon home? In the flurry of
life and work and endless chores, I recently had to stop and consider again
what truly matters.
How easily do I become distracted by the busyness of life?
Like a crow chasing the shiny and losing track in the process. My brain never
resting, plotting, planning, running ahead with my to do lists…stomach churning
with anxiety as the day is too short and there are so many things to
accomplish.
Yet…
in the brighter scheme of things…despite the heartbreak and bottomless grief involved
in caring and loving someone with Alzheimer’s there is a small flicker of a “bright side”, something I am frankly stunned
to be writing about…because I never realized it until I said it…
When
I attempt to view things from my mother’s perspective…and gaze into her beautiful
but vacant eyes (I really want to know
what she is thinking) I notice that she no longer has the faintest interest
in curious people, places, things, money, or even what’s on television.
She
operates solely on human contact, silly smiles, and tiny pats on her hands, small
gestures made by her caregivers, parts of songs and scriptures and the treats
that are pressed into her hands for her to enjoy.
The
simple things in life.
The
stuff that truly matters.
The
chuckles and giggles from yesterday…the cause no longer remembered, only the
warmth and joy they brought.
Her
fast paced, active, busy body life is now reduced to hour after hour of staring
into space…She no longer frets about “who is bringing the bacon home or whether
there is bacon?”…She doesn’t even think about the “bacon” at all.
She truly, in
every respect is resting in Our Fathers care… a living example of His
providence and provision of us, His Children.
This
thought has reminded me once again that ALL provision comes from our Father in
Heaven…He knows our needs and He cares for us in every way. He provides the “bacon”
for our daily needs and it really doesn’t matter who is bringing the bacon home
because it all originates with Him anyway.
Matthew 6:25-34
The Cure for Anxiety
25 “Therefore I tell you, stop being worried or anxious
(perpetually uneasy, distracted) about
your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your
body, as to what you will wear. Is life not more than food, and the body more
than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow [seed] nor reap [the
harvest] nor gather [the crops] into barns, and yet your
heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?27 And
who of you by worrying can add one [a]hour to [the length of] his
life?28 And why are you worried about clothes? See how
the lilies and wildflowers
of the field grow; they do not labor nor do they spin [wool to make
clothing],29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in
all his glory and splendor
dressed himself like one of these. 30 But if God so
clothes the grass of the field, which is alive and green today and tomorrow is [cut and] thrown [as
fuel] into the furnace, will
He not much more clothe you?
You of little faith! 31 Therefore do not worry or be
anxious (perpetually uneasy, distracted), saying, ‘What are we going to eat?’
or ‘What are we going to drink?’ or ‘What are we going to wear?’32 For the [pagan] Gentiles
eagerly seek all these things; [but do not worry,]for your heavenly Father
knows that you need them. 33 But first and most importantly seek (aim
at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and
being right—the attitude and character of God], and all these things will
be given to you also.
34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will
worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
END
Do you sometimes find yourself fretting about things you
cannot change anyhow? Are there challenges in your life that are threatening to
overwhelm you?
Perhaps we should both just spend some time reflecting on the
above mentioned versus and find the peace that comes with realization that “He has
got the whole World in his Hands”. He will provide the “bacon” in whichever form
is required at the right time.
*Hugs* till next time.
Ariéte
