Swirl—Six Sentence Story

Seemingly unprovoked and coming from who-knows-where, certainly not from him, George heard the words enunciate through his mind: Don’t let the devil run your mouth.

“How do I know you’re not the devil giving me that advice?” George countered in self-defense.

Why would the devil give you such advice?

A swirl of confusion funneled through George’s mind reaching down to his heart where it came to rest like soft vanilla ice cream filling a generous cone. When he saw the topping dipped in melted chocolate and offered to him, he didn’t know how to respond to this unexpected kindness, indeed uncalled-for kindness given everything he had done, except to regret pretty much—no—he regretted every wacky thing he ever said.

“Ok,” George cried through tears of joy, “I’ll keep my mouth shut unless it be in praise of You.”

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

Job 42:1-9 KJV
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

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19 thoughts on “Swirl—Six Sentence Story”

  5. Dude! If’n I had an ice cream cone* for every time I said something silly… ain’t that much Ozempic in the world!

    lol

    Good thought, the old ‘don’t have anything good to say, don’t’

    *yow! how many decades ago when that last happened!

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    1. Same with me. If I had an ice cream cone every time I goofed up and let the devil run my mouth, I’d be a few hundred pounds overweight. Thank you, Clark!

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