Gloria—Six Sentence Story

Gloria listened to a girl telling her about Jesus in the nursing home. The girl reminded her of her daughter when her daughter was much, much younger and acted more like an angel than Gloria liked to remember her daughter acting today.

The girl told the staff that she was sent there to visit only those nearest the ends of their lives and so a nursing assistant escorted her to Gloria who could no longer speak, but acknowledged others by moving her fingers. Although Gloria repeatedly rejected her own daughter, the girl’s words moved Gloria to lift her hand which the girl held in hers.

The next morning Gloria died and her daughter stopped by to pick up her belongings. Upon hearing of her mother’s last visitor, the dam safeguarding decades of tears collapsed.

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

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Author: Frank Hubeny

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

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  9. Sometimes it has to be someone besides a relative. I know one day I was praying about my younger son, asking the Lord what I should do, and He said, “Nothing. Do nothing but pray. He will not hear you, so not another word to him about Me, not even in passing. I have him, you keep praying and keep quiet.”

    I have stayed quiet, and I heard through the grapevine he and his wife are attending a church when he doesn’t work on Sundays. I will stay quiet until told otherwise, and pray, and The Lord will send the right person with the right words when the time is right, and it won’t be me and that’s fine.

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    1. That’s a wonderful testimony, Mimi. I am glad to hear that the Lord said, “I have him, you keep praying and keep quiet.” And I am glad to hear that he and his wife are attending church. It is good to do only what the Lord says.

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