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Five Minute Friday — Reach

August 29, 2014 By mollieh02 2 Comments

This post is a part of Five minute Friday, a writing flash mob that happens every week when writers are prompted by a single word to write for 5 minutes without any major editing. Just raw thoughts and emotions. You can find out more and/or join the party here.

 

I could talk about reaching for your dreams or reaching for the stars, but today I am just reaching for strands of sanity….

After about an hour and a half of sleep, the kids, for the first time all week got up before I did.  Not such a good thing today.  Then the tiny little bugs wouldn’t brush their teeth, so we were almost late to school.  I came home got coupons all cut out and organized, drove 20+ minutes to the nearest Harris Teeter, shopped for about 1/2 an hour and went to check out.  Then I realized my wallet was at home.  It has just been one of those mornings.

photo credit: Picture Perfect Pose via photopin cc

photo credit: Picture Perfect Pose via photopin cc

Some days aren’t reaching for the stars days.  They are about just reaching out for the little bit of sanity we can grasp at in this moment.  Reaching out for something hard to hold onto, that can bring us back from the brink of loosing it.  What is your one thing that brings you back from the edge?  A little quiet time with God, a tv watching session, a good book, music?  Whatever it is, can you send it my way today?  I think I might need it.

 

Godspeed,

Mollie <3

Five Minute Friday — Tell

August 15, 2014 By mollieh02 8 Comments

Five minute Friday is a writing flash mob that happens every week when writers are prompted by a single word to write for 5 minutes without any major editing.  Just raw thoughts and emotions.  You can find out more and/or join the party here.

 

My brother.  He was a half brother and we only lived together one summer when I was around 6 and he was 14.  We were never terribly close, but he was my big brother.  He was a pro wrestler and the healthiest person I knew.  It was an aneurism (I have no idea how to spell that word) that took him one morning.  He was 33.  It will be 9 years in October since he was taken home.

 

Jason.  Jason was loud and silly, never serious, but I loved him.  Not like a girl loves a boy, but like a best friend.  He is who I went to when the boyfriend of the moment was being a jerk, or I had a freshly broken heart, or when I just liked someone.  He was my sounding board.  It will be 17 years in January since a car wreck on a rainy morning on a curvy road took him.

 

There have been others over the years.  Grandparents, who the thought of can still reduce me to tears, friends, old boyfriends, but those two were respectively the last and first losses that shook me to my core.  The kind of loss where you still pick up the phone to call them for weeks, or months after, before you remember that you can’t.

 

So tell them.  Tell them that you love them.  Tell them that you care.  Let the people in your life know how much you care while there is time.  If you’re single and there is someone who makes your heart flutter, tell them.  The worst they can say is no.  You’ll save your heart regret and the bother of what if.  We are not promised tomorrow.

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photo credit: ashley rose, via photopin cc

If you knew this was the last time you would see someone you love, what would you say to them?  Now go tell them, because it just might be.

Godspeed,

Mollie  <3

I love you all and would like to thank you for your support you have given me as I stepped out in faith in writing this blog.

Five Minute Friday — Fill

August 9, 2014 By mollieh02 5 Comments

Five minute Friday is a writing flash mob that happens every week when writers are prompted by a single word to write for 5 minutes without any major editing.  Just raw thoughts and emotions.  You can find out more and/or join the party here.

 

I have exactly two thoughts when this word comes to mind.

  1. I want to be filled with God till there is nothing left in me but Him.  So that when people look at me they see Him.
  2. I want to go out and fill the world with Him.  How can we not share Him with the world when He has done so much for us?  Imagine the impact if every believer you know told one person and then they turned around and taught one person, and so on and so forth.

Imagine how the world would change if we all shared what we have been given.  If we filled the world with disciples of the one true God.  Maybe the world wouldn’t be such a lonely and scary place anymore.

I leave you with this video because the second I saw the prompt word it popped into my head and wouldn’t leave.  🙂

Godspeed,

Mollie <3

Five Minute Friday — Finish

July 25, 2014 By mollieh02 2 Comments

Five Minute Friday

Finish.

To complete.

To stop doing something.

Some days I long to finish something, anything. There is always one more load of laundry. ( I swear it multiplies in the pile.) One more dish to wash. One more dinner to cook. One more mess to clean up. Truth is we are never finished.
The things I can finish I often wish could go on. When I reach the last page of a book I wish for the next chapter….what happens next? Where do they go from here?

 

Aren’t you glad that in the same vein, God is never finished with us. Aren’t you glad He doesn’t look down at you and say, “I’ve done all I can with this one. I’m finished.”? He started working in us before we were a glimmer in our parents’ eyes and He doesn’t finish that work until well, ever. Even after we leave this earth he won’t be done with us.

 

Godspeed,

Mollie <3

 

 

Five Minute Friday–Bloom

July 18, 2014 By mollieh02 26 Comments

I take the word bloom as a personal challenge.  Today I will bloom where I am.  In the midst of chaos, the bad mood I woke up in due to my children waking me with their fighting, and my personal fears and insecurities.  I will bloom.  This is my first blog post, not just for Five Minute Friday, but my first ever.  I have been putting it off.  Using any excuse I could to make it ok that I wasn’t moving when the Father gave me something to do.  Just one step can set you on a path that you could have never imagined, but you have to take the step before He can bestow blessings on you.  If you refuse to move the Father will move on to someone who will move.  So today I challenge you to take that first step towards obedience, towards the life He wants so badly to give to you.

Bloom

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Bloom where you are planted!

It’s not your surroundings that matter, but the willingness of your heart to surrender to His will that makes all the difference.

 

Godspeed,

Mollie

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