Believing the best way to deal with someone was not to beat him over the head with a club Brian manipulated George with psychology. George, on the other hand, preferred the club.
Over the years these two friends found lovely brides and got married raising children who had children until Brian died which made George wonder if he should have used the club less often. Without Brian’s subliminal influence George felt the only thing left to do was grow old.
That was when an undeserved miracle gave George a wallop knocking some sense back into him and letting him know he wasn’t quite dead yet. After that the grandchildren longed to hear his tall tales while his own children listened and even his wife respectfully responded to his loving touch which frankly shocked him but not as much as it pleased her like an answered prayer.
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Denise offers the prompt word “club” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Ephesians 5:33 “Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.” (KJV)

A lovely story Frank
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Thank you, Sadje!
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You’re welcome
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Applause!! Happy for the undeserved miracle(s) for George 🙂
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Thank you, Lynn! May we all get such miracles.
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A great awakening, you might say. A pleasure to read, Frank.
~ Dora
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Thank you, Dora!
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To club or not to club, that is the question! A great story and I have a story similar but not here. Wonderful!
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Thank you, Mary! Blessings to you!
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Seems the two were quite complimentary in their different ways. Nice Six!
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They were. Thank you, Susan!
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Just as long as George’s loving touch wasn’t done with his club. 😉
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It was a loving touch. And her response was respectful. Thank you, Doug!
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Prayer never goes to void, yay!
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Her prayers were answered. Thank you, Cassa!
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Funny how we may take most for granted those friends who are least like us. Yet those are the friendships that often have the most effect on us.
Uplifting Six, Frank.
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Thank you, Denise! It is amazing the effects some people have on others: sometimes for good; sometimes for not so good.
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A window of love in marriage
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Their marriage blossomed in the end. Thank you, Jim!
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Redemption
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Funny how a common, (ok, maybe not ‘common’ in a massive quantity sense, more in (an) everyday sense), saying can acquire an additional overtone.
Your ‘undeserved miracle’… nice
miracle being, of course, such a gigantic, (if not, ‘boundless’), idea and ‘undeserved’, well common as dirt.
interesting Six this week.
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Thank you, Clark! I am glad you liked “undeserved miracle”. I wrote that in spite of not being able to imagine any miracle that is “deserved”.
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What a wonderful miracle. We all have so much to be thankful for.
Blessings.
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We do have much to be grateful for. Thank you, Michael!
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Lovely
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Thank you, Paul!
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Marriage like life is an evolving process. A pity married couples don’t stick together for long these days. They would find out that marriage does get better with time. Good for George finding redemption.
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I agree: couples should stick together. Thank you!
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Very well told. May we all find such as we grow older.
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Thank you, Mimi!
I like how he asked her for spaghetti with meatballs in your story and how she was willing to make them.
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Thank goodness she waited for him, many would have walked away by then.
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They are both fortunate she waited and he smartened up. Thank you, Keith!
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Heaven delivered to those who wait?
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That is a good way of putting it. Thank you, Liz!
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A good reminder that we have more influence on others than we realize.
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Good point about our influence on others. Thank you, Nicole!
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Sometimes grandchildren bring out the best of us, Frank
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Young enough they’ll listen to tall tales. Thank you!
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Good morning Frank, The photos of the ocean you recently posted are a great way to start the day. Thanks again. Keep up the good work. Dan
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Thank you, Dan, and best wishes!
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