Five Minute Friday - While

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One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.

while you were sleeping

while you're waiting

worth the while

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 This song from a Casting Crowns Christmas album was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the prompt for this week. Although my thinking went in a slightly different direction . . . 

I have a love/hate relationship with the snooze button on my alarm clock. I love the option of closing my eyes for just five more minutes, so much that I even plan for my alarm to go off five or ten minutes before I actually need to be up so I can enjoy that. But too many swipes and the snooze button and oops! I've slept too late! And I hate that. What does it have to do with "While"? Just this - what do I miss out on while I'm snoozing lazily? 

I thought about all the things that go on while we are sleeping and unaware, or while we are just going about our own business and we are unaware. While we are sleeping peacefully at night, on the other side of the world people are busy at work and school. And similarly, while we are focused on our own little concerns, God is at work. He prepares answers for us before we know we'll have the questions. He makes a way around the next bend in the road before we've gone far enough to see that bend up ahead. Now I'll come back to the question the song asks . . . 

Will we be awake and alert to see what God has been doing? Will we respond to the call to action, to the trumpet when it sounds? Or will we hit the snooze button?

God is at work while we sleep, while we watch, and while we wait.

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But as for me, I will be on the watch for the LORD;

I will wait for the God of my salvation.

My God will hear me.

~Micah 7:7~

Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found without spot of blemish in his sight, at peace.

~II Peter 3:14~

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This post is linked at Five Minute Friday for the word prompt "While".

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