Reward (Five Minute Friday)

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Life is full of rewards. This time of year, we are rewarded for surviving another winter with the site of the first Robin of spring, and the green shoots as the spring flowers burst forth from the messy ground that winter has left behind.

If you are a mother, your reward for the disfigurement of your body for all those months is the newborn baby you hold in your arms and get to leave the hospital with and spend the next eighteen plus years raising. I wrote a post in May 2016, The Rewards of Parenting, that you might enjoy reading, if for no other reason than to see the awesome photo in the post.

When you do well on a diet or weight loss journey, your reward is a new wardrobe and a smile in the mirror from the stranger that was hidden in your body.

The reward from writing blog posts comes in the form of comments and encouragement from those who read what you have written.

The reward for many years of working and scrimping and saving is a retirement funded by the savings and investments you scrimped and saved over the years.

When you clean the house before you leave for a vacation, your reward is coming home to peace and order instead of CHAOS.

Life is full of rewards. They are everywhere. They aren’t always obvious. They aren’t always the rewards you wanted, but there are always rewards. Never forget there are always two sides to every coin. If you keep your head up, and praise God for the rewards he has given you will be more likely to notice the rewards in your life. This is called an attitude of gratitude. In any given situation, you can choose to laugh or cry. Look for the good and if you can’t laugh, at least smile and be glad you were here to be tested/rewarded again. If you must cry, do it from joy instead of sadness. Every cloud has a silver lining and there you will find your reward.

This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: Reward
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.

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