Give Me 5: Five Minutes with the King Can Change Everything!

By Brenda Fox Hinckley

5 minutes. Just 5 minutes! Ever felt that way? You just need 5 minutes to get it together. You find yourself in the "throne room," and you are having that personal "me" time, and that door pops open and it is a free for all. You go from that private "me" time to finding yourself placing an arm back on the barbie doll your daughter just handed you. Your little boy is now in the room looking at you needing something, you hear your husband yelling from the other room, "honey do you know where my keys are?" Not to mention the family dog also in the room staring at you. You just needed 5!

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664254114

Brenda Fox Hinckley

All through these fun and thought provoking chapters, Brenda provides life experiences sprinkled with her commical insights on the every day journey and meets you right where you are. Pastor's wife, Women's Ministry, Youth Leader, Children's Director, Worship Leader and still sane after all these years . God is good!

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GIVE ME FIVE

Five minutes, just five minutes … yes, I would love more, but if I can just get five!

Ever felt that way? I know I have, and most of the time, it is when I am in the throne room, which is my word for, Hey, let’s everyone come in and see what Mom can do for us. So, I am there, you know, perched on the porcelain throne where you would think one could get some alone time. After all, I am kind of taking care of some personal business, and even if I did remember to lock the door, somehow, someway that door can pop open at any minute with someone in dire need of something from me. I cannot even begin to tell you how many problems I have solved in there—anything from putting an arm back on a Barbie doll, signing a paper that my child needs to take back to school right now, to my husband yelling from the other room, Honey, can you help me find my car keys? Not to mention the family dog at my feet, begging to be petted, while I am still trying to take care of my business.

I just need five!

How about this? Have you ever found yourself hiding in the closet? You know, just for a few minutes away from everyone and everything. Just sitting in there, holding a quart of ice cream with a big spoon, and shoveling that goodness into your mouth. You might have a twinge of guilt, but, nope, you need this time for everyone’s sake. No one is asking you anything. No one is calling your name four hundred and sixty two times. It is just about five minutes of sweet paradise in that closet.

I guess that is what enticed me to write this book. Helping others know we are not bad people. We are not bad parents. We love our families (most of the time), but, girl, if we do not get at least five minutes, it might not look pretty when Mommy comes out of that closet or that bathroom or whatever other places she is trying to hide.

I just need five!

Have you also noticed the whole house can be having the most chaotic moment or day, and then the one time you happen to lose it, all the heads twist toward you, the world seems to stop, and they all look at you like you are the crazy one who just spewed green stuff out of your mouth?

I just need five!

My hope is this book will help you give yourself permission to take five minutes out of your day to take care of you. Take five minutes each day to grow closer in your walk with God. That will help your daily walk with family and friends. And yes, to answer those that who are already thinking, Only five minutes with God? I say that is a great launching place. Five minutes will lead to more as you start building that relationship and intimacy with your King.

So, go ahead! Start turning these pages and get you some.

ELOQUENT WORSHIP

Just another dinner party? I think not.

Some of the boys invited Jesus to a dinner one evening. As everyone was settled around the table, a woman walked in with a jar in her hand. As she came behind Jesus, she started weeping and wetting His feet with her tears. She took her hair down and began wiping Jesus’s feet with her hair. She leaned in, kissed Jesus’s feet, and poured perfume on His feet.

The boys were in shock. They knew this woman, and she did not have a great reputation in town. The boys were surely thinking, I’m sure Jesus knows who she is, and if He does know, why is He allowing her to touch Him?

In Jesus’s time, when you traveled, you usually walked everywhere. There were no Ubers—perhaps only a donkey every now and then that you might be able to use. I am sure walking in sandals in the hot, dry dirt and through donkey dung was not pleasant.

The ritual during that time in history was to wash your guest’s feet. It was a form of etiquette. Also, in the Middle East, men would frequently greet one another with a kiss on the cheek. It was a common polite greeting of friends. The perfume oil would have been part of the preliminaries of the feast.

Jesus turned to the boys and said, Do you see this woman? I came to your house, and you gave me no water to wash my feet. None of you greeted me with a kiss. You did not put oil on my head. This woman wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. She has not stopped kissing my feet since she entered this place, and she poured costly perfume on my feet. Jesus turned to the woman and said, Your sins are forgiven.

As a reader of this story, you will notice the woman never spoke a word. She worshipped Jesus with her actions. No words, just actions. What eloquent worship! She never asked Him for anything. She just sat at His feet and worshipped Him.

What a beautiful picture of worship and love for her Savior!

You can find this story in Luke 7. After you have read through