CIRCLE

This post was written for Five Minute Friday

Word prompt--CIRCLE

Five minutes to free-write about it

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Today is the first day of summer. The seasons have come full circle since summer 2024. This weekend the temperature is supposed to be in the 90s.

When the temperature gets that hot, I am super grateful for my air conditioner and have no desire to leave the house, but I have been told that wildflowers love the heat. And so, I put the window box of tiny wildflower sprouts that had been germinating on my windowsill on the balcony, as well as the flowering kalanchoe plant in the circular pot. 

Not even an hour later, the beautiful blue sky turned an angry gray and before I could make up my mind whether  to leave the plants outside or bring them back in, we had a storm to end all storms. The rain was torrential, and the thunder loud. I felt terrible about having  transported those plants from their safe, sunny windowsill to the middle of a severe thunderstorm. 

I said a quick prayer that they would survive, and was amazed that they did.

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An unrelated thought, but something triggered as I was writing about my quick prayer at the end of my post, was Mark Batterson's devotional, "Draw the Circle." I'm adding it here for anyone who may be interested, since it fits this week's word prompt so perfectly. It's a 40-day prayer challenge I've worked my way through many times, and that maybe it's time for me to work my way through again. Each day has a devotional containing a true, faith-building story of God's answer to prayer, a Scripture, and some prayer prompts. Anyone want to go through it with me?