When Stan got offended he became offensive. That was when all hell broke loose as he tormented those around him and they reciprocated. Stan poured fuel on the flames with the way he explained how each and every one of them deserved it.
And sometimes the people who deserved it actually did deserve it, but hell being what it is, even worthy Stan was made miserable by all his divisiveness. The thought that good folk, like himself, suffered right along with the bad guys got Stan even more offended.
Eventually people, getting tired, put hell back in its cage where it belonged and God gave them more time to start loving each other unless they really wanted to all get locked up in that cramped cage together.
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Denise offers the prompt word “even” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 KJV – 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Many generations ago Jared told his children how their very first father and mother lived in a garden. He said that there was a snake in that garden who told their ancient mother that, if she wanted to be a god, all she had to do was something the Lord said would cause her to die that very day. Convinced the snake knew more than the Lord did, she disobeyed the Lord and got her husband, witless or not, to do the same.
When the Lord realized that a deception had occurred, He went looking for them, but they were so ashamed, being now woke, that they wanted only to die before He could find them. He found them in time, extended their lives beyond that day and promised that the snake’s masters who usurped dominion over the Earth would be crushed by the woman’s seed.
And that was the first step the Lord took to break our fall, Jared said telling his children as much as he could remember of the parcel of information and explanation which held a sacred promise that his own father and mother had passed on to him years ago.
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Denise offers the prompt word “parcel” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Genesis 2:16-17 KJV – 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 3:9-19 KJV – 9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Galatians 2:20 KJV – I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Less than an hour after the dog broke loose from his chain, after he killed Joe’s chickens and after he hunkered down at the far end of Joe’s isolated, one-room cabin, Joe walked through the cabin’s open door with a repaired chain in his hand. The dog growled and Joe knelt down a few feet from him so their eyes could stare each other down.
Pressing his index finger on the wooden floor, Joe said, “GET YOUR“—and may the gentle reader forgive me for not repeating the unfortunate adjectives Joe chose to describe the dog’s—”ASS OVER HERE!” The dog correctly understood that there were only two choices: either submit or someone was going to die. The dog bowed his head, turned his growl into a whimper and received the chain.
Joe forgave the dog stoking his fur to draw him out of the shadow of transgression as Joe led him out of the cabin back to the dog house.
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Denise offers the prompt word “shadow” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Genesis 1:26 KJV – 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 