Linking up with everyone for Five Minute Friday, where a remarkably encouraging and loving community gathers to write for five minutes. This week’s prompt is: BARE.
I’m writing about my family. I am writing about my church. Family life can be messy, especially when you know the bare facts about each other. Church life can be messy, especially when you know the bare facts about each other. I love my family no matter the bareness revealed in their mental, emotional and spiritual life. We are linked together. I hope my church will love my family no matter the bareness revealed in their mental, emotional and spiritual life. We are linked together. We are family.
We are family: Linked and Bare
Photography by Donna Harris ❘ Remember the Year
Three Words About Family
We are functional. We are dysfunctional.
We experience God. We need God.
We have assurance. We have doubts.
We have peace. We are anxious.
We are content. We want more.
We do cry. We don’t cry.
We are strong. We are weak.
We don’t stop. We give up.
We are happy. We are angry.
We are praying. We don’t pray.
We are sure. We are confused.
We have hope. We are afraid.
God is near. God is far.
We are found. We are lost.
We are family. We are family.
Donna Harris‑More Grace 
Thank you Donna. Your three words are just right for me today. We don’t stop. We give up. Thank you for not writing with triumphal language alone but also remembering in your writing the hard days, the days we do cry, the brokenness and unevenness of real life. That can often be lacking in church circles so I appreciate your honesty a lot.
Elizabeth, the brokenness and unevenness of real life is true for everyone. Thank you for your comment! I appreciate your words.