A month ago I stumbled across Kate Motaung's Five Minute Friday blog challenge. http://katemotaung.com/five-minute-friday/
Each week she posts one word and the challenge is to write for 5 minutes on that word. I thought I'd try it to encourage myself to write. The exercise was amazing and revealing for me, stretching me, pulling me, provoking me. Last Friday's word was weak.
Weak
"When I am weak, I am strong."
The foolish things to confound the wise.
How to celebrate weak? How to stand weak on its head?
---from vulnerable, incapable, needy, disrespected ....
---to strong, God-reliant, confident, humble.
I hate feeling weak and helpless yet that visceral emotion reveals a true weakness - lack of trust. Weakness of strength, capability, the ability to stand firm in trials or troubles is ALL provided for by a relationship with God. Lack of trust is the weakness that limits my ability to receive and therefore overcome the difficult, withstand the unstable, and thrive instead of survive.
