Six Sentence Story: Gifts

After hearing that Thomas’s lease was terminated the minister gave Thomas $1,000 in cash with no strings attached.

Thomas refused it.

Then the minister gave Thomas a check for $100,000 with no strings attached.

Again Thomas refused it.

Finally the minister came back with a cashier’s check for $10,000,000 which he personally placed into Thomas’s hand all with no strings attached.

Once again Thomas refused to give the devil any grounds to say that the devil made him rich knowing that there was no gift from the devil, the father of lies, without a string attached.

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Denise offers the prompt word “lease” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Genesis 14:21-23 KJV – 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

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Author: Frank Hubeny

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

29 thoughts on “Six Sentence Story: Gifts”

    1. I am glad you liked it. If I said it was someone with horns and a long red tail holding a pitchfork I wouldn’t have been able to get to the sixth sentence. Blessings, Violet!

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