Outlet—Six Sentence Story

Neither my brother, Stephen, nor I liked Miss Walters, his old 3rd grade teacher at St. Joseph’s and my new one this year. No one liked the lady not even Mom and Dad who talked about her after they thought we went to sleep.

When Stephen walked up to Communion last Sunday behind Miss Walters and in front of us, he heard Jesus tell him that He loved the way Miss Walters’ heart moves when she sings, whatever that meant. Then Stephen whispered to me back in our pew that he and I had to give that message to Miss Walters because she wouldn’t believe anyone else.

I was hoping we might wait until next Sunday, but Stephen rushed me through the outlet of our pew to hers after Mass and quickly said, “Miss Walters, Jesus told us to tell you that He loves the way your heart moves when you sing.”

Miss Walters looked at us and then her eyes filled with tears and then Stephen’s eyes filled with tears and then Mom and Dad were there and then their eyes filled with tears when they heard the whole story (which I still don’t know) and then we all hugged and then I felt my own heart move and then I felt Miss Walters wipe away my tears.

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Denise offers the prompt word “outlet” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Song of Solomon 5:8
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

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31 thoughts on “Outlet—Six Sentence Story”

  3. Beautiful!

    It’s hard to act immediately when Jesus calls us to action. We want to think about it and plan it out. But when He makes His will known, if we act immediately, those around us see God through us, and Spirit speaks to Spirit. If we wait, some of the message is lost; some of the emotion is missing; and the message comes from our human self rather than the Spirit. It loses something in the translation. We are no longer witnesses to God, we are witnesses to ourselves, and though there is power in the words, it is a trickle and not a flow.

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    1. Those are very good points, Rebecca, especially about witnessing to ourselves or witnessing to God! Once we know the will of God we have to act immediately.

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    1. I wrote this from the eyes of a 3rd grader because he would not likely know or understand if he heard the whole story and I don’t know it either. However, he did know that he did not like Miss Walters without knowing her very well. Getting him past his negative imaginations about her would be miracle enough. Blessings, Cassa!

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