Task—Six Sentence Story

The gifts had been collected over centuries from the time of the prophet Daniel. In obedience they waited for the star, a task they felt privileged to perform, knowing it could appear any night now. When it did they hastened toward Jerusalem to worship the King and deliver the gifts.

They regretted the attention, especially from Herod, that they drew to themselves in Jerusalem by asking for directions and so they left for home right after they found the Child. After they left at nightfall Joseph, awakened by a dream, quickly rose to take Mary with her Child to Egypt using the gifts the wise men left as means of support. 

The next morning Herod went into such a rage upon hearing from his spies that the wise men were not coming back that, instead of just one Child Whom they couldn’t find anymore, he had all of the male children in Bethlehem and the surrounding area under the age of two killed.

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Denise offers the prompt word “task” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories. For what really happened see Matthew 2.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

21 thoughts on “Task—Six Sentence Story”

    1. Thank you, Mary! I like how many poems and six sentence stories are often very short and yet only a few words are needed to point the reader to the Word of God.

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  7. Excellent ‘Narrative tune-up’*

    Subtle changes (in the telling of the story), effect nearly as subtle, simply a smoother (for modern Readers) tale.

    not a ‘real’ term in rhetoric

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    1. I did add minor details that weren’t in the original. It is good, however, to keep the original in mind.

      Someone told me around Christmas time that if there had been three wise “women” rather than three wise “men” who made the journey they would have asked for directions. I told him, that those men did ask for directions once they got to Jerusalem which led to Herod finding out what happened.

      Thank you, Clark!

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