That detour Brian didn’t have to take took decades. When troubles knocked some sense into him, he lacked the sense to ride those blessings home. Sliding on curses he went where no one needed to go.
When Brian found his way home he told us, “If I knew how easy it would be to jump off that merry-go-round I’d have done it long ago.” Regretting the waste of life, he added, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
We were so glad to see him none of us saw any need to remind him just how often we had told him.
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Denise offers the word “detour” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Proverbs 15:32 – “He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.” (KJV)
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
Ah yes, it is not an issue of the telling but of the listening. “He who has ears to hear” is the issue. Well done!
Shalom!
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Brian needed to listen. Fortunately he found his way back home. Thank you, Michael!
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Sounds like folk who make circular arguments. Frank we had a circular argument of the modern Hebrew translations made on the Gospels. Ya wanted to argue that a Hebrew manuscript predates the Greek manuscripts as the earliest original manuscript. But that “circular argument” requires an ancient manuscript. Which in no wise exists because if one such Hebrew manuscript existed then that manuscript and not some recent translation would have be published. Happy Lag B’Omer whoooop its the 33rd day of the Omer “Yippee Ki-yay ki-yo” [Bruce Willis].
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I love this!!!
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Thank you, Rebecca!
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Yes!
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Thank you, Mary!
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Kind of a circular argument up until he jumped off, Frank.
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He was going in circles. Thank you, Doug!
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A story many of us can identify in some way or another. Excellent Six, Frank.
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I can identify with it. Thank you, Denise!
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This is a great lesson.
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Thank you, Romi!
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The title and the story both are so interesting – felt very unique to me. Yeah usually I am not aware when I am not ready to listen – of what is being said.
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At least Brian finally listened or came to his senses. Thank you, Pragalbha!
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Yesterday I heard a standup comedian talk about times in a relationship where the 3 magic words change from “I love you” to “I told you.” 🙂
I like the phrase ‘sliding on curses’ indicating there is something predestined beyond what we see.
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I am glad you liked the phrase “sliding on curses”. I am not sure what it means, but being “predestined beyond what we see” makes sense.
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You highlight the importance of listening well, Frank. Too often it seems to be a long-lost art.
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Most of us (including myself) need to be better listeners. Thank you, Chris!
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Yes, we humans are not good at accepting advice that goes against what we want. but it’s all part of the journey. I like the expression ‘sliding on curses’.
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I am glad you liked that phrase “sliding on curses”. Thank you, Jenne!
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If only he’d listened. A story many could relate to I’m sure.
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I recall finding myself in Brian’s position often. Thank you, Keith!
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Listening seems to be a lost art. Many are too focused on how they are going to respond rather than listen.
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Good point. We are more intent on responding than listening. Thank you, Eugenia!
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Most welcome, Frank!
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Aiiyyee! How long this (in retrospect, simple) lesson in life takes some of us to learn?
(Asking for a friend…lol)
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I ask myself for a friend as well. It can take a long time. Thank you, Clark!
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I think we’ve all been Brian at some point, Frank
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I can relate to him. Hope there is enough time left to get back on track. Thank you!
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Life goes like that some times.
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It does. I was sort of describing my own journey. Thank you, Dan!
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Sometimes you just have to find out your own way and the hard way, no matter the advice.
I’m glad he came ‘around’.
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I have had to take the hard way detour many times. Thank you!
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We do tell them, don’t we. My children haven’t gotten it quite yet, but i’m not giving up on them.
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Mine haven’t either, but I can now understand my father’s perspective of me. Thank you, Mimi!
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I like the phrasing in the first paragraph- That detour Brian didn’t have to take
he went where no one needed to go
He didn’t have to, but he did… Glad he made it home in the end.
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May we all make it home in the end. Thank you!
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Love this; it made me think of how sometimes someone says things like why didn’t the church share the Gospel to the person; but people were but the person’s view of hearing the Gospel before salvation wasn’t every clear; and it was spirtiual blindness going on
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Good point. The story does fit the Church as well about sharing the Gospel. It is hard to hear through spiritual blindness. Thank you, Jim!
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Sometimes we keep doing the same things, Frank, round and round, over and over, again and again.
There’s a good lesson to learn here!
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May we all learn enough of those lessons to find our way. Thank you, Tom!
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Well better late than never, I guess 🤷
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Yes, it good that he found his way home. Thank you, Bernadette!
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So true! And he wo up don’t have heard an ‘I told ya so’ anyway!😉
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He wouldn’t have heard it anyway. Thank you, Liz!
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(Oh I intensely dislike spellcheck, some days) 🤨🖤
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I think Brian’s issue was selective reasoning and selective hearing. Well done, Frank.
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Definitely selective hearing, but all that was in the past. Thank you, Mark!
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