Hi and welcome to Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word prayers in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Have you ever woken up with something on your mind, a song, a word, something?

And it's so random, you know you have to pay attention to it. Yeah. Well, sometimes this happens to me. And when it does, I'm always either

a little bit annoyed, like if I wake up thinking about a song, I then can't get off my brain. I hate it

when that happens. Or I'm a little bit intrigued. Like the time not that long ago, I then can't get off my brain. I hate it when that happens. Or I'm a little bit intrigued.

Like the time not that long ago, I woke up with a word on my mind that was totally out of the

blue and I could not for the life of me understand why I was thinking about this word. We'll talk about it

right after this. So I woke up not long ago with a word on my brain and it was the word

tethered. And I could not for the the life of me, figure out why I was thinking

about this word. I hadn't been reading a book with a word tethered in it, that I could remember,

at least. I hadn't written anything about being tethered. And so it was really from left field.

And typically when that happens to me, it's a spiritual something I need to pay close attention to.

Now, full disclosure, my first thought was not spiritual.

It was a tether ball at recess.

You remember that?

Some of you will.

And if you know what that is, you are my people.

And if you are too young to know what this is, you are my people too, but you are

my younger people. And please go Google what that is or ask someone. But actually, speaking of

Google, that was my second thought was to look up the definition. So I went and I did that. And

here's what dictionary.com said, a rope or a chain by which something is fastened to a fixed object to limit its range of

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