GRACEFUL (FIVE MINUTE FRIDAY)

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A GRACEFUL FLIGHT, BALLET IN THE SKY.

Who doesn't delight at the sight of migratory birds in flight like the Trumpeter Swans.  Up there in the sky, which they have conquered, like no human machinery has, they fly on heavenly wings.  They seem to have mastered the power to grace the sky.

 Like a ballet dancer who has spent so many years in training and discipline, perfected movements on her toes, like flying in the sky, captures the stage.  I believe that they are so like the graceful movements of the swan, in flight or in repose on placid lakes.

My word for today was taken from 1 Corinthians 9:24-27.  It is the runners verse for the prize.  He has to submit to discipline to hone his muscles and stamina.  He spends hours upon hours in the gym.  He diets to meet the nutrition to become healthy and able.  He uses time wisely for rest and for practice.  And in the race his sight is on the prize.

To me, that sounds like the preparation the migratory birds have to go through in their own particular way to endure the temperatures, days of unwavering flight, sustained by their instincts and powerful muscles.  To complete the package, they stay graceful in flight with a formation akin to ballet dance. Ballet in the sky.

In my previous post, I wrote about this season in my life, where I was carried by our Lord to His altar of grace.  He has honed my patience, humility and strength through this season.  And it is comparable to bird migration.

It is one thing to discipline ones self for this race called life and another to do it by being graceful.  But we can never do it without God, without His word, without prayers.

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 I COR. 9:24-27 (kjv)

²⁴ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
²⁵ And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
²⁶ I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
²⁷ But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Joining FMF community with the prompt-GRACEFUL 

Thankful to find community of writers writing a word prompt Fridays, where there are no grammar and writing skills needed.  Just pen/type thoughts without over thinking nor editing..... for 5 minutes or less.  

If you haven't joined yet, please do.  And don't forget to read what the others are saying with the One-Word-Prompt GRACEFUL.

With Lisa @ A WOK ON THE PRAIRIE

With Pam @ WRITING APPLES OF GOLD 

With Shelly @ REDEMPTION'S BEAUTY 

With Michelle-Lyn @ A LIFE SURRENDERED


And here's the beautiful song to score this post:
(With thanks to Sister Lidia, my worshiper friend)

YOUR GRACE STILL AMAZES ME 

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