Each year, a challenge is issued to write more, blog more, and join together as a community.
The Five Minute Friday community joins an international challenge to Write 31 Days on topics that impacts women worldwide.
As part of the challenge, the Five Minute Friday community writes on a prompt daily that inspires many to write from their heart and share their poetic words. The prompts were compiled by our leader Kate Motaung.
This month, I am accepting the challenge and each day this week, I will work toward fulfilling the challenge.
The first part of my accepting the challenge, involves designing a unique graphic for my series. Next, I integrate the words into a meaningful theme. Then,with prayer and study, I apply spiritual and Biblical verses to bring out the personal meaning of the words to me. As I ponder each word, I embark on a poetical and prose writing journey.
I hope you will join me. What I uncover as I travel this road will bring renewal and spiritual meaning to my life and hopefully yours as well.
Are you up to the challenge too? We welcome all Write 31 Days posts. Be sure to link up with us so that we can support you too on your writing journey.
Now let’s
Last Week’s Top Clicked Post!
My Favorite Post of the Week
Isn’t This the Point?
I choose Nylse’s post this week because is analogous to the spiritual life of a Christian writer. As writers for Christ, we need to train and hon our spiritual craft. Writing well involves practice and pumping our prose and poetic muscles. To write in ways that influence and inspire others using our unique voice, we must practice and well, write. We have to study the craft through reading other writers and applying what we learned to our own writing exercises.
That is why I like writing challenges such as Write 31 Days and the FMF 31 Days of Five Minute Writes. These challenges can inspire and reinvigorate out writing lives if we use them as personal writing revivals. We can grow spiritually and closer to God by writing for Him in our own personal ministries.
I love the verse Nylse shares in post:
…Instead, train yourself to be godly. “Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.” This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it. This is why we work hard and continue to struggle, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people and particularly of all believers. 1 Timothy 4:8-10
As writers, we can work hard and struggle to fulfill our hope in Christ.
Now, it is time to link up to the Literacy Musing Mondays hop!
Linkup Rules:
- Include a link back or the blog hop button linked to this hop on your posts.
- Link up the urls to your posts not to your blog.
- Please remember this is a family-friendly linkup. Although we believe in the right for adults to read whatever they want to read, we prefer to read wholesome posts that feature literature that edify and uplift families. We reserve the right to delete any posts that are not family friendly. We love all kinds of literature and genres including family-friendly inspirational romances, fantasy, or science fiction. We do not welcome any posts that feature excessive violence, sexual content, or any cursing. This rule also applies to book review posts that feature books that are not family-friendly. These posts will be deleted without notice to the blogger or explanation. While we believe in the right for all adults to read whatever they want, we feel our linkup is for family-friendly posts only. Thank you for understanding.
- We also want to be loving community by supporting one another. Please make a point to do this this week! Visit the two posts before yours and at least one other blogger’s post of your choice! I want to see lots of clicks on everyone’s posts. Remember it is also nice to follow them on their social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
- Follow your hosts and co-hosts on their social media.
- Tweet about the link up too.
Be sure to check out my Linkup Parties page for great blog hops that I join each week.
Donna Reidland says
September 26, 2017 at 12:53 amMary, I have contemplated a writing challenge, but I don’t think it’s the right timing for me. But I admire those of you who do. Praying it will be a blessing to all who take part. Thanks so much for hosting.
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Lisa/Syncopated Mama says
September 25, 2017 at 10:03 pmHmmm…I’ve participated in the 31 Days Challenge for several years — and even picked out my topic for this year while writing last year’s posts, but just the other day, I decided not to do it, since it has involved so much extra stress for me in the past. But after reading about this 5-minute idea…you’ve got my wheels turning!
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Maree Dee says
September 25, 2017 at 12:31 pmMary,
You go, girl! I am impressed. I am praying for your success right now as I send this out to you. I am still working on getting a post out a week so I can’t imagine writing every single day. I know it would be good for me but I am not quite at the point where I could do it. I admire you for doing it. I like the topics too.
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nylse says
September 25, 2017 at 12:01 pmThank you for the feature. I’m surprised but really appreciate it.
Blessings to you.
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Michelle says
September 25, 2017 at 10:23 amHi, Mary! Thanks for stopping by.
I wish you luck on the challenge.
Thank you for hosting LMM each week 🙂
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Beth says
September 25, 2017 at 10:04 amThanks for highlighting my post and the kind words, Mary and friends! And I have always been intrigued by the 31 day blogging challenge but never feel as if I have the time to devote to it. I have a hard enough time getting two posts on my blog each week (which I don’t always do!). So more power to you and all who are participating and I hope it brings a lot of new readers to your sites. Thanks for the linkup!
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Barbara H. says
September 25, 2017 at 9:49 amI’ve enjoyed doing #Write31Days in the past, but so far I don’t have anything on my heart to write about this time. That may be just as well – we’re coming off a busy season with surgery and a lot of family activities, so I am looking forward to October as a restful spot before the holidays in November and December. But I do enjoy following along as I can.
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bluecottonmemory says
September 25, 2017 at 9:41 amI don’t know if I could do 31 days in a row – but it sounds decadently delightful to try!
Mary Hill says
September 25, 2017 at 9:54 amThat is what I love about the #FMF challenge. You can springboard quickly into the challenge and write faithfully.
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Michele Morin says
September 25, 2017 at 9:14 amI won’t be doing the 31 day challenge, but I admire all of you who are!
Blessings!
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Mary Hill says
September 25, 2017 at 9:27 amThanks for your support Michele. 🙂
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