My taste is what I’ve learned to crave,
but all that’s over in the grave.
“So, what about me would you save?”
I asked the preacher man.
He said my spirit most of all
so crippled by the early fall
and then the rest: “Hear Him call?”
It’s now my turn to speak.
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Ronovan Hester offers “taste” as the word of inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Posted also on Poet’s Corner.
Saul’s blindness left as if a scale fell from each eye when Ananias put his hands on him. His heretical heretic hunting days were over. He now became one of the hunted.
He waited for three days after the light overpowered him and blindness set in on the Road to Damascus. While waiting he refused to eat or drink.
Saul heard the voice, felt the power to the point of blindness and from that day forward abandoned his former ways to obey no matter what the cost to himself.
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Denise offers the prompt word “scale” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Acts 9:17-18 KJV
17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
Dale offers the prompt “in motion” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. The first thing I thought of were birds.
Timothy sensed he was talking himself into a corner without knowing how to extract himself except through silence.
He was getting the philosophy all wrong. He was getting the theology all wrong. He was getting the science all wrong.
In spite of all that, he was grateful no one actually complained while he talked to himself on the beach waiting for the sun to rise. When the sun came up, on time as always, he understood that the Lord still loved him in spite of everything and that had been an lot of messed up everything, but all was well again.
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Denise offers the prompt word “extract” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
I recently published an illustrated collection of stories many of which originated from these Six Sentence Story prompts. To download a free pdf copy of it, check out Stars and Stories.
Psalm 139:1 O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
“Just do it now,” my conscience said,
“The Word awaits. He will be read.
Bear fruit.” The drying branch is dead.
When pruned it’s cast away.
Injustice is a waste of time.
For some it turns into a crime,
but He will come, remove the grime.
Don’t end up wiped away.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration word “justice” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted in Poet’s Corner.
Dale offers the prompt “low elevation” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I took these many years ago when I tried to see the world the way a pigeon might walking on the street.
I probably looked silly taking these photos.
Over the past year I put together a book, Stars and Stories, using LaTeX (MiKTeX) as the typesetting software for both book and cover and Audacity for the audio. I just completed that project and I am now offering the pdf from this page.
The book is a selection of short tales. All of them except for one, Afterwards, were originally written for either Denise Farley’s Six Sentence Stories or for Sammi Cox’s Whispers and Echoes. Some of these stories were revised from their original versions.
Here is the cover, front and back:
The print book is made and distributed by Lulu. It is pocketbook size (think, small) with heavier paper to better show the color illustrations. Because of that it is more expensive to print.
I used Amazon’s Kindle Create to make a replica of the print book as an ebook for Kindle readers. It looks much like the pdf file. As a “print replica” ebook, the text does not reflow. This preserves the illustrations in their original positions on the pages.
Now that I know how to do this, my next projects will be to make a larger, color book of photographs and poems and to create a Volume 2 of Stars and Stories.
You may read and download the book below as well as listen to the audio files. If you would like to review the book you are most welcome to do so. You may consider this pdf file as a review copy.
They left what’s wrong to darkened night
to rise and follow living light.
The way was narrow, true, but right.
That’s how they made it home.
Forsaking gods of mountains, trees,
of roiling, windy, mindless seas,
they listened through the silent breeze
and served the living LORD.
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Ronovan Hester offers the word “right” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted at Poet’s Corner.
Joshua 24:15 (KJV)
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 