Five Minute Friday - MERCY

It’s easy to join in, just: Check what the prompt is on Lisa Jo's blog. Write a post in only five minutes on that topic on your blog. {And if you don’t have a blog, no worries! Just leave your writing as a comment on my post} Link at her blog and invite friends to join in. Select the permalink to your post {so not your blog url www.lisajobaker.com but your post url www.lisajobaker.com/2012/07/five-minute-friday-2/ } Using the blue linky tool at the bottom of my Five Minute Friday post enter your link. It will also walk you through selecting which photo you want to show up in the linky. Your post will show up in our Five Minute Friday linky. 

=- See more at: http://lisajobaker.com/five-minute-friday/#sthash.sOvzglDd.dpuf

MERCY...

Regret.  As soon as I open my mouth, I already feel it.  Running to His throne after I've yet again not held my tongue or my thoughts.  The tears come easily.  They run fast and rapid and I get so wrapped up in Who I am in front of, that the tongue that often gets me in trouble can't find any words to say.

Finally.

I'm sorry.  A gentle & quiet spirit.  I know.  I REALLY do know...it's just so hard.  It's such a struggle for me.

Forgiveness?  True forgiveness?  Wiping the slate clean?  That slate that has to have been filled with millions of "I'm sorries", thousands of "I'll never do that again"?  Isn't your arm tired?  Aren't you tired of all the chalk dust that fills the air when you erase again and again?

Yet, there you go...not just wiping it clean but washing it...the slate, my heart...again not giving me what I so definitely deserve.  Consequences come what may and they often do...

I feel Your arms wrapped so tightly around me that it's almost odd at all of the relief and peace I feel as if I'm floating instead of being held.  You have a way that goes beyond what this small mind can imagine.

Mercy.