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This Weeks 5 for 5 Brain Dump Challenge Day #3

Oct19

What Does  It Mean to Be Alive?

Although I was not all that pleased with this entry, it IS part of the process, so I put it here any way.

Another way you can know you are alive is more emotional than with your senses.

What is your response when you hear the news of hurricanes and fires and flooding? Do you get all teary? Do you have the urge to reach out and help someone? Are you driven to your knees in prayer?

Or are you flat?

Do you feel anything?

Are you alive?

There are times when you may feel nothing just because you are overwhelmed. The emotion is stuck in there. You don’t even know how to express it.

Being alive would be seeking to find the best way for you to handle it.

You are alive either way.

 

( This all seemed inconclusive and disconnected today. Too distracted? Part of the learning curve I guess. Ideas or thoughts you may have? Please share.)

 

 

 

This Week’s 5 for 5 Brain Dump Challenge Day 2

Oct17

The beauty of the 5 for 5? No need to edit as you go. Just free flow writing. So sometimes it’s a mess, and it’s OK.

Go here to find out how it’s done: 5for5braindump.weebly.com

Being alive. Do I notice the sun’s rays in the morning? Do I see and feel the dew on the grass? Do I smell the fresh morning air, before the traffic begins to move? Do I quiess in the silent moments when it seems only the birds are awake?

These are the morning senses. The ones I used to sleep through. Now, they are the ones I can’t wait to experience, the ones I can’t stand to miss.

Part of being alive? Yes. I believe so. It helps me to come alive with a better understanding of who God is. How BIG He is. My mind cannot comprehend.

Just a taste of His glory, for all the world to see, if we will only look for it.

The heavens declare His righteousness, and all the people see His glory.

Psalms 97:6 KJV

 

 

This Weeks 5 for 5 Brain Dump Challenge

Oct16

If you don’t know what a Brain Dump is – You can go Here to Find Out.

This weeks challenge/Prompt is this question …..

 

What does it mean to be alive?

We will write about this prompt each day this week.

When we do this, each day seems to get a little deeper.

When I do this I tend to find out out things I didn’t even know I thought.

So join me, won’t you?

 

Day #1. We are to consider this question each day of the week. It is a multi-layered question, and I don’t know how to answer it – but here goes.

To be alive to some, I am sure, is simply about breathing in air, taking up space. To others, just to wake up, to not have their life taken in their sleep.

I want my life to be more than that. I want it to be about noticing what others miss. In my mind. With my eyes. Using all my senses, breathing in the air whether it is new or stale, musty or fresh like spring. Air that either assaults my senses, or soothes them.

 

That’s it. 5 minutes already?

Until next time.