Frank Hubeny

December Limericks

All of these limericks were originally posted to either Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick or her Writing Prompts during the month of December 2025.

Boring

Though it’s boring I’m snoring away
all those daydreams that come during day
and those nightmares as well
got me snoring. I’d tell
you a story – “It’s boring,” you say.

Prompt word: “boring” December 1, 2025

Promises, Promises

If you’ll do it, then do it. OK?
Don’t promise to do it and say,
“Oh, I’ll do it tomorrow
come rain splashing sorrow.”
Just do it and do it today.

Prompt word: “promise” December 3, 2025

There once was a wonderful sky and a guy with two eyes asking why

Sweet Candy

Though I used to think candy was sweet,
well, it is and it was. I could eat
my fair share of the stuff
even more than enough
even more than my share. It’s so sweet.

Prompt word: “candy” December 8, 2025

Sleigh

It’s away in a sleigh we will go
though it’s warm and there isn’t much snow.
In fact, it’s quite hot
and the reindeer are not
really reindeer. Oh, well. Here we go!

Prompt word: “sleigh” December 15, 2025

that fine sky was so red. Ah, there’s blue now instead.

Giving

I am living, that’s why I will be
someone giving back life given me.
There are more ways than one
to give life. See? The sun
keeps on giving and giving for free.

Prompt word: “giving” December 17, 2025

Holly

With the holly and ivy we go.
Grab a kiss under sweet mistletoe.
But is mistletoe sweet?
Well, the rhyme was no cheat.
May that kiss bring you bliss and love grow.

Prompt word: “holly” December 22, 2025

Family

During Christmas our family is fine.
There are some who perpetually whine.
There are some full of joy.
How they giggle, annoy
all the whiners, but family is fine.

Prompt word “family” December 24, 2025

Unused Door

The cell of my prison’s fine door
was opened. I stood on the floor.
Do I dare to go out?
Dare I run, walk about?
I stayed stuck so they locked the cell door.

Prompt word “door” December 29, 2025

Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Best Of The Rest

Dale offers the prompt “the best of the rest” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Leaves of a magnolia tree (I think) just south of Charlotte in South Carolina

Blue bark on some strange tree in southern Florida although it might be a common tree in that area

A view of the fort at St. Augustine, Florida

The shepherds knew an angel who
had told them of His birth.
They went to see the mystery
of peace, goodwill on earth.

Today as well we yearn to tell,
like them, this tale of love,
with accent true with joy that’s new
from ancient songs above.

Go on and see beyond the tree
how righteousness reigns there.
He will not leave though devils grieve.
He’s with us everywhere.

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

I am grateful to P. A. Oltrogge whose book of poems, tales, carols and Bible verses, Christmas on the Porch, reminded me that it is the Christmas season and a narrative poem may be the best story.

The Piano Guys

Cosmic Photo Challenge: A Winter’s Walk

Dale offers the prompt “a winter’s walk” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

There are many trails where we live in South Carolina.

This trail is a couple miles long and I can walk to it from the sidewalk. Indeed, it is hard to tell where the sidewalk stops and the trail begins.

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Here is where the trail becomes interesting

I haven’t gone under the railway yet, so let’s see what’s there

Review: J.C. Walton’s Compact Time

Book: J.C. Walter, Compact Time: Radiocarbon Dating & the Case for a Young Earth, New Creation, 2025.

The main difference between compact time (CpT) which the author promotes and deep time (DpT) is that geological time is based on a calculated adjustment of ages provided by the decay of Carbon-14 (¹⁴C) rather than the decay of uranium or other such radioactive isotopes.

¹⁴C decay by itself provides a reliable measure of time for the past 3000 or so years and it is used in archeological research. However, for objects much older than that age it runs into problems with known historical dates. CpT is a calculated adjustment for ¹⁴C to agree with better known archeological dates.

Also since ¹⁴C is present throughout the fossil record this suggests strongly that the fossil record itself is not very old. This falsifies DpT. Soft tissue in dinosaur fossils confirms the shorter age as well. If one applies CpT to the fossil record one gets a geological time measurement that agrees with archeology and suggests a possible age for the fossil record.

A short age implies that the hypothesized catastrophes of the past forming the geological mega-sequences should be lumped together into one “giga-catastrophe” which can be associated with the biblical flood of Genesis 6-9 along with stories of the flood in many other cultures. The author puts the giga-catastrophe about 5350 years ago which is close to the estimate used by the Associates for Biblical Research for the biblical flood. The years since the giga-catastrophe is a parameter in the model for CpT given in Chapter 5.

The author provides a clear presentation that is well documented for those who would like to try using CpT or research it further.

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Interview of chemist John C. Walton by Henry B. Smith Jr of the Associates for Biblical Research

Luke 2:12

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

*Badge by Laura @ riddlefromthemiddle.com*

Six Sentence Story: The Sixty-Third Of The Seventy Weeks

Daniel wrote, Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.¹

Although at first he didn’t understand, he knew he was promised understanding and that this was an answer to his supplication. But how did the virgin with child that Isaiah prophesied fit into all of this and why that name Immanuel?

The channel of events in the vision ended ominously with: and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.²

Understanding comes through obedience and as Daniel wrote in obedience his understanding matured until he realized the virgin’s role between the going forth of the commandment to rebuild the walls and this desolation along with the central importance of the sixty-third of those seventy weeks when the covenant would be confirmed.

As gratitude overwhelmed him with peace Daniel could see that the ink was dry enough for him to roll up the scroll.

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

This completes the Daniel tales.