“PLAN”

That’s the Five Minute Friday word for today (March 13, 2015). So, without a plan (because that’s the plan for Freewrite Fridays), let’s see what rambles out of my keyboard…

Go!

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Plan. That’s what I need most right now. A good, concrete, flexible but unshakeable plan for my month, season, year… I’m talking spiritually. I think I’m drifting back to Egypt…

I do make plans. Lots of them. Like right now, I’ve been planning my days around alliterations flowing from the first letter of each day’s name…

Monday is Mindday, and Moneyday, the day to mind the money and the mail and the magazine accumulation and, as far as writing, to Muse and record my Meditations…

Tuesday is To-do’s Day, when I Trek or Trade to do the errands, running about on roads or streets or internet. It’s when I also try to tackle ten “Ten-minute-tidies,”** often in ten different areas, and Toss out twenty-two tidbits.

Wednesday is Wordsday, for Writing, when a word that has struck me in my scripture reading gets focus, also Work with Wool or Weave day—and Water the plants and Wipe up the counters and maybe Wash a Window or two…

Thursday is ThoroughsDay, when I purpose to “thoroughly clean three things.” Each thing might be a shelf in a closet, a drawer in a dresser or cabinet, or a floor that needs special polishing up—and, in the process, to aim at Throwing-out thirty-three things. Think I might have clutter issues? You’re right. (But less and less)

Friday is… FreeDay, as in FreeWriting of couse, also Follow through and Finish up what didn’t get done through the week, and Fix Ahead and Free up for the weekend. Yay!

Saturday is SaturateDay, when I (hope to be able to) sit (or stroll) and soak up beauty, and fresh air, and sunshine, and Sonshine, which brings me to

Sonday…

Might sound whimsical and wacky, but it works! However, except for the weekend, it’s mostly earth stuff. Now how might I translate each of those focuses for spiritual use? Because that’s where I need, right now, more of a focusing plan.

(Stop? This time I ran over. But I had a plan, once I got started, and plans are no good if they lack follow-through, right?)

(** The ten-minute-tidy term did not originate with me. I first read it on someone else’s blog. But whose? And who originated it? I don’t know. But there’s a lot on the internet about the concept, even a whole book, it looks like!)

6 thoughts on “Plan!”

  1. Your post was a joy to read this evening. Loved your alliteration using the days of the week! Having a plan, so you know where you are headed, how to fill your days – just what I’ve been working on myself.
    I’m your neighbor at FMF this week! have a fabulous weekend.

    1. So nice to meet you, Linda. Hope we get to “see” each other again!
      Thanks for stopping to comment. God bless.

  2. Thank you! we think alike….I had Wednesday as water plants and weaving day for years and earlier this week I thought “Maybe if I come up with some other alliterations for the other days of the week” but I hadn’t gotten any further than that. This might just get me on track…..I need a track….else I am off on every trail in the woods like a beagle after a rabbit….
    So glad to have you back blogging.

    1. Wow, how about that? You have me chuckling at how our minds have run on the same track (no pun intended; that’s just how the thought popped out). I know what you mean about being beagle-like, too—except the beagle definitely has a goal in mind, on which it stays so intent sometimes that nothing can distract it! (Not me, alas! 🙁 )

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