Dale offers the prompt “straight lines” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
In the first photo there is the straight line of the horizon over Lake Michigan. The Chicago walkway by the lake provides even more straight lines.
In the second the horizon over the Atlantic Ocean provides a straight line along with the edge of the beach.
Eileen, troubled as many of us are, was seeking never to be the same again as she watched dozens of people, some very old and some very, very young, fall and laugh overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit during the revival meeting. She knew this would not happen to all attendees since some understandably felt no zest to embarrass themselves in public in front of video cameras, but she wondered if it might happen to her in spite of her sitting in the middle of a row far in the back of the auditorium and in spite of her troubles.
The revival leader said he was looking only for those the Spirit showed him were ready as he walked the aisles. When he called her she nervously edged her way past the lukewarm spectators sitting next to her to get to the aisle knowing that—yes!—she, too, was going to fall and—yes!—she, too, was finally going to laugh.
Eileen raised her hands in praise, unnaturally fell backwards fearlessly into the arms of a catcher and laughed without restraint on the floor. Although decades later she would have proof, while lying there full of joy she already knew she would never be the same again.
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Denise offers the prompt word “zest” for this week’s Six Sentence Story.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 