The Calling—Six Sentence Story

As James was wallowing in his favorite garbage someone called his name. When he saw that no one was there he went back to making a wreck of his life.

Then James heard the same voice that called him earlier tell him to become a minister of the Gospel. Fat chance that was going to happen, he thought, but the voice interrupted him with You’re goofing off on holy ground! The voice had that je ne sais quoi that made it too real to be unreal even for a garbage connoisseur like James.

His friends were shocked as they watched James take out the garbage and turn that fat chance into a sure bet that he would do something with his life that he had never suspected.

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

Acts 9:5 NKJV Who are You, Lord?

This train had to make a complete circle to get itself pointed in the right direction—I was on it
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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 “The Calling—Six Sentence Story”

  2. Ha! Love it! Just studying this in Bible study today.

    “More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,

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  6. Excellent Six.

    Your stories have the weight of the lessons found in a certain, oldest-of-best-selling books, but manage to be far more readable*.

    Good wordifying!

    *which, when you get write down to it, is the goal of all stories and the ambition (to acquire the skill) for many of us

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