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Five Minute Friday
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Most Fridays, I join an online Christian writing community, Five Minute Friday. We are given a one-word prompt and write – unscripted, unedited, pure free-write – for 5 minutes. Five Minute Friday is a great place to hone my writing practice and be encouraged by other writers as I write. I will set the timer for five minutes and then write. Here we go! I am excited to invite you in, welcome.

Today after a long time of word loss a poem has emerged like a sigh.

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Are there words enough to cover 
The beauty of a whole life? 
Is there a way to live and love 
Under the cover of grief and loss? 
When you cover me in sunshine 
Do I get relief and delight? 
I remember a time I did before 
Maybe I will again today  
turn my face to the sun 
A face can only express so much 
But then it could also express it all
What will I use to cover up
My tear stained face? 
Maybe I don't have to cover up
Under cover searching for clues
The clues I looked for were simple 
Yet the complication of their discovery 
Keeps them in the recesses of a broken heart
and yet beauty found me anyway
I will hope against all fear 
I will trust again in that cover of Love
I will not be left exposed to the elements
I will not be forgotten by beauty
I am under the cover of Grace

Gracefully,

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