Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Psalm 119:100

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Six Sentence Story: It Rained Until the Joy Came Out

Just to be here is a miracle even in the rain. To love someone while you’re here living your miracle is like putting a cherry on top of the whipped cream resting on top of a cherry vanilla milk shake.

But I don’t have anyone, Sally said.

You always have Someone, if you want Him, the Spirit Who made her His temple responded.

Sally agreed as she felt the rain stop and the joy come out.

Now if I added that the next frog Sally kissed in desperation served the function of her Mister Right, she would have missed Matthew, but what then would have become of that frog?

Denise offers the prompt word “function” to be used in this Week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Trail: Evening Walk

An evening walk across Regent Parkway in Fort Mill, SC, through the park and into the trail through the woods.

I am looking for the sunset through the hills and the trees.

Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: From the Ground Up

Dale offers the prompt “from the ground up” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I figured I better take or find pictures where I am standing on the ground looking up.

This is what I came up with.

I’m on the trail looking up at a train. Eventually I will go down the trail a bit and then under the tunnel to get to the other side.

I am standing on a sidewalk looking up at some bougainvillea draping over the wall.

Here I am standing on a trail looking up at some mountains.

Ten Things of Thankful: August 15, 2026

I am thankful to the Lord for everything mentioned below and all of His other blessings.

The photos tell their tales with the help of captions.

(1) morning sun through (2) morning flowers

(3) stones and (4) busy people (5) building walls

(6) trees, (7) trails and (8) the color green

(9) smiling blossoms and (10) the colors red through yellow

Six Sentence Story: How Things Got Complicated

Joe was Beth’s backup plan when she spent the weekend with Mark not knowing that she was Mark’s backup plan, because Jane, Mark’s plan, had more backup plans than her scheduling software could consistently manage.

Eventually Joe found out about Mark and Beth found out about Jane.

Then Joe replaced Beth with Kate and Mark, unsure what to do, figured he better get rid of Beth to avoid conflict with Joe which all happened about the time Jane decided to get rid of him anyway, because – well – because everyone was all of a sudden becoming too miserable for her to live with.

And then things got worse, like an out-of-control forest fire, even for Jane whose remaining backup plans found out they were backups when she could no longer keep their names straight. And then it got so bad that six sentences were not enough to do it justice.

And that’s how things got complicated.

Denise offers the prompt word “fire” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Paul also wrote in Romans 10:9 KJV, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

John 1:1

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

Six Sentence Story: The Quiet Hours

After I stood to say goodbye to Lou and the tall, thin man walked him to the door, I sat down to finish my coffee noticing that the quiet hours were beginning when the Gatekeeper would play music outside the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro. Thinking of that new dancer, Holli Spirit, at Lou’s club got me wondering if I could work her into the storyline somehow until I heard a snort come from the voice.

“Weren’t you the one running my mouth like it was on fire when I was talking to Lou?” I asked him.

You didn’t shut me up, did you?

“I almost did.”

I know, but what counts is you didn’t.

Denise offers the prompt word “fire” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.