Join me in the
Five Minute Friday Challenge hosted by Lisa-Jo Baker. Participants write for 5 minutes
with no editing, no over thinking, and no backtracking. This week’s word is: Bloom.
(Go)
‘Bloom where you are
planted,’ they say.
But what if you don’t?
What if I watch
you and all I see just makes me sad?
What if you
have just shriveled instead; refusing to bloom because the flavour of the dirt
here isn't quite to your taste?
They also say
that it
takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow.
My heart has
been so heavy with the rain. It hangs over you when you walk in the door.
Sometimes I think I will go crazy with that cloud of gloom you cling to.
Though it’s not
my cloud, it still obscures the light at times. Gives me a cloud of my own
to carry.
But He has been
showing me that I need to lay aside the burdens I feel for you and somehow
sparkle in the dark shadows. To show you something that shimmers instead of
watching me battle my sad.
Because if
there’s to be any blooming, you’ll need rain-
and sunshine.
(Stop)
Now, your
turn…
