It’s 5 minute Friday!
Here are the rules:
1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back at The Gypsy Mama and invite others to join in.
3. Go a little overboard encouraging the writer who linked up before you.
Todays word is:
Tender
Go!
As I write this snow is tenderly falling outside my window. We are due a storm today but it’s only just getting going now. The snowflakes are gently falling and turning the brown ground a bright shade of white. We’ve had a really mild winter this year and it is unusual to see soil and grass at this point of winter. While watching the snow I am pondering the word tender and have come to realize that my heart is real tender these days.
When I think of tender the following words come to mind; fragile, delicate, sensitive, loving and protective. My heart has been bruised a lot the past few years to the point where I feel it will break if pushed much more. I know that won’t happen as God will sustain me as I seek Him, but it doesn’t stop me having that awareness of how fragile I am.
I was watching Never Been Kissed last night on the TV. Maybe you know the movie? A journalist gets sent back undercover to her old high school, posing as a student, in order to obtain a story. Drew Barrymore plays Josie, the lead character, and high school was not the most plesant experience for her. Going back she relives some of those memories. I had tears in my eyes at times, especially when she was a dressed up for the prom. The “cool” dude was taking her, but it turned out to be a trick, she ended up having eggs chucked at her. After this the scene switches to Josie sobbing, and I joined her. I went to bed wondering why I am so sensitive. I realized it is because of the actions of people in my life, not only recently, but over many years. The thing is, this is something you can never get away from. People are people. I have a tender heart, a soft heart, but I would much rather this than a hard heart.
STOP!
6 Responses to “5 Minute Friday – Tender”
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beautiful!!
I too have a tender heart but it took a lot for me to have my heart softened…I much prefer it this way!!
Thanks Kerri
I have been examining my natural response to things a lot lately. I have a tendency to cynicism that is actually a defensive mechanism surrounding a fundamentally tender heart. As I take classes at MSR, including the current “Utilizing Church Conflict” class, the concepts of “family of origin” therapy keep coming up. While I think my family life growing up was fine, the surrounding social environment, especially school, shaped, scarred and “sharpened” me in many ways that I now want to acknowledge and then change. It isn’t easy.
Love the stream of consciousness here! Beautiful words.
Yeah, I understand what you are saying.
Thanks!