Is Maintaining a Good Thing or a Bad? | 5-Minute Friday

It’s time for 5-minute Friday, a one-word writing prompt where we write for 5 minutes without editing or stopping. Today’s word is maintain.

Maintain … is it a good thing or a bad? I think it could be either depending on what we are maintaining. The first thing that comes to mind is maintaining the status quo. That’s usually a bad thing. It makes me think of maintaining mediocrity. But I believe there are other areas where maintaining is a good or at least a neutral thing.

At 74 years old, I’m glad I have maintained my health for the most part. Not that I don’t have more than my share of aches and pains and certain challenges. But I can still take care of my little great-grands. I can still counsel and mentor as God allows and gives me opportunities. And I can still enjoy time with my sweet husband.

But the one area where I don’t want to maintain is in my walk with God. As long as God allows, I want to grow and become more like my Savior. That means reading His Word and spending time with Him in prayer.

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Donna ♥

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Annette

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November 11, 2023 at 10:42 AM

i like how you differentiated what to maintain, and how you want to push for growth. good stuff. FMF11

Kym

November 11, 2023 at 6:49 PM

I asked a very similar question as I considered this prompt, and came to a similar conclusion – maintaining can be positive or negative, depending on what we’re maintaining! Thanks for some food for thought to add to my ponderings! Visiting from FMF#13

Donna Reidland
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November 13, 2023 at 9:14 AM

And thank you for stopping by, Kym!

Andrew Budek-Schmeisser

November 12, 2023 at 4:01 AM

I maintaining mediocrity,
I’ll make that clear and plain.
It is what I have left to me,
for I can’t push through the pain
to reach now for excellence,
to ascend ever higher,
but letting go gives recompense,
for I found that striving’s fire
burned the time I might have spent
in merely being kind,
and cancer thus was Heaven-sent,
for I regained my mind,
and am living these hard days
in the very best of ways.