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Reblogged from November 3, 2015
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Afternoon, everyone! This week’s challenge is another “thinker”, and I will be curious to see what folks come up with. Heck! I’ll be curious to see what I will come up with! 😀 So without further adieu, here we go!
How does this relate to your life?
Imagine finding this figure drawn in the sand.
Is it a circle?
A zero?
The letter “O”?
Relate this figure to your life.
What does it me to you?
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As always, remember to include a link to this post on YOUR blog post. Or if your response isn’t overly long, feel free to leave it in the comment section below. If you would like to play with us and see the previous prompts, they’re listed in the menu at the top of the blog in The Sandbox Writing Challenge 2018. But please feel free to just jump in wherever we are at the moment! After all the prompts are really for YOU to get to know YOURSELF! Have a “ball”! Ready, set, go!!!
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Jane’s post (Making it write) — Responsibility
Cheryl’s post (Impromptu Promptlings) — Round and Round We Go — And Where We Stop No One knows…
Linda’s post (Spiritual Dragonfly) — Circles… No Beginning — No End
Fim’s post (Quantum Hermit) — Exercise 12
Raili’s post (soulgifts – Telling Tales) The Circle of Life
Shannon’s post (Survival Skills) — Circles, Chains & Old Men
Ivor’s post (Ivor.Plumber/Poet) — Time Travelers
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I feellike people are meant to be standing within it. Where did they go?
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OML, Jay! What a fascinating response! Sort of like Roanoke colony on Roanoke Island in North Carolina. That’s always fascinates me.
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I began my life in a very large world. There was the farm and the pasture that I was allowed to roam freely. I just heard that Utah just passed a law making it okay to let your kids “free range.” My son at the age of three was allowed to ride his big wheel to the tree up the street about a block away and back. He was allowed to walk around the corner to Grandma’s. Of course I would watch him to the corner and Grandma would watch him come to her house. But, he did not know that. His world was also big.
When I was 9 we moved to the big city, Ogden. My world got much smaller. My 3rd grade teacher assigned Bunny to be my friend. I was not allowed to walk to school alone. I was able to ride my bike around the block but, it was preferred that I take at least one of my younger siblings with me. Actually I couldn’t go anywhere without Bunny. She was a good and faithful friend, however it made my world really small.
I didn’t see the circle enclosing me until I married my first husband. I followed my mother’s advice and disconnected from my friends. After I had my son I could see the circle the line that I could not cross. As time went on it became a wall to the ceiling and then into space. It really wouldn’t have mattered who I married the result would have been the same.
It was at this point when there was no way out that I tried suicide. I had sent my son to Grandma’s and called in sick. I took every pill that I had in the house and believe that I died that day. Jesus met me and told me that it wasn’t time and I had to go back. I called Listening Post and they helped me enough that I didn’t try again.
This was 4 years before the divorce. My X tried to keep the marriage together. But in my mind it was over. Everything he tried was met with hostility. I had to get out, but just walking away was not an option. So, I waited, and gave him every reason to leave. Finally he found someone else and asked for a divorce. I immediately found a lawyer paid him and got the divorce in less than 2 months.
I was finally outside that circle and was very happy. I called my friend Cheryl to give her the good news. She was very confident that I was not happy and she insisted that I come to see her. I went. She used the Bible and the Book of Mormon to prove to me that the Church was not the true Church. That really wasn’t necessary, I already knew that. But I had been taught from a very young age that there are no other true churches. So, why bother looking. If God hadn’t prepared my heart I would not have cared. But, God had told me and showed me that He wasn’t mad at me. I just didn’t know why. I knew the truth when I heard it. He put all his anger on Jesus so that He did not have to be angry at me. It made perfect sense. I asked Him to come live in my heart and be my savior. The circle however big it was crumbled that day. I changed. I began to hate what God hates and love what God loves.
I get really angry at those who try to draw circles (of legalism) around my life. God just brings a big wind and blows those circles away.
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“The circle however big it was crumbled that day. I changed. I began to hate what God hates and love what God loves.” Very beautifully put, Geri. I’m so glad you shared this. It’s been quite the journey for you!!! ❤
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huh ?
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What do you think when you see a circle?
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I looked at the image this morning and have left it to brew in the subconsious…. something will emerge for the post eventually. Off hand circles are about fulfillment, completion, wholeness, and on the flip side going round and round in circles getting nowhere! For me, they ‘feel’ good.
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Ah, the sands of time, and how life goes in circles.
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2017/12/24/a-time-traveler/
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It tells me nothing was here.
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Interesting. I’ll have to ponder THAT for awhile…
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