My friend, Jamie over at Brown Paper And Strings, has been writing and linking to Five Minute Friday with The Gypsy Mama for quite a while. The idea is to write about the given subject for only five minutes without overthinking or editing. {As a former copy editor, this is me internally screaming!!} I’ve been afraid to try it before considering it usually takes me anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour to write one blog post. However, today I decided to participate. The topic: Grit. {And, yes, it took me the entire five minutes to write these few words. I obviously wasted my time on overthinking. Oh well, there’s always next Friday!}

Grit…

that which makes us

uncomfortable

hurt

raw

honest.

Like walking in a pair of shoes with sand between the toes…painful.

We want to remove the cause of what exposes…of what causes us to limp.

The beauty of grit is found in the afterglow it leaves on us.