Today I’m joining Lisa-Jo over at her site to take five minutes and just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. The challenge is to write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing, with the prompt she gives. And today, her prompt:

Full….

GO!

Grandpa Joe had lived a good full life. The family shared memories and remembered and honored this man who was now complete and whole in the presence of his Maker, free from the pain and the suffering of his aged and worn body.

And as they wheeled the casket out, with the hearse there waiting…

…waiting to take his body to rest in this earthly grave…

I imagined him, his soul joined with his new and glorified body, standing in the presence of our Savior…

Before our bridegroom…

THE ONE who made the way even possible for us to stand there before Him...and my heart was overwhelmed and FULL with the thought.

Full of love and gratitude for the price He paid, to free me to one day stand in His very presence…

Full of the idea that I will SEE His face, and we will embrace, and the intimacy I have come to know with Him while I am here will pale in comparison to beholding Him who has loved me from the beginning of time.

What a day that will be!

Full of Him who pursued me, and rescued me, and redeemed and restored me…ALL because of HIS great love for me…

Full because He laid His very life down for me. He humbled Himself to save me…

And I am full…SO FULL…of His great love for me!

STOP!

Isaiah 59:1

Behold, the LORD’S hand is not so short
That it cannot save…

Isaiah 69:10

I will rejoice greatly in the LORD,
My soul will exult in my God;
For He has clothed me with garments of salvation,
He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness,

Psalm 100:5

For the LORD is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting And His faithfulness to all generations.