All by myself I can’t erase
the past that I can’t bear to face.
There’s no relief rejecting grace
and mercy from the Lord.
The Lord is good. We praise Him when
we give Him thanks with joy and then
give thanks again and then again
with joy that never ends.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “relief” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Joe thought and thought about what to write as a six sentence story, but nothing came to mind and so he asked his wife if she had any ideas but his wife had better things to do and gave him a look and so he asked his daughter if she had any ideas for a six sentence story, but his daughter was practicing becoming a teenager and so he got nothing from her but another look and so he asked his son if he had any ideas for a six sentence story and just then his son spoke his first word saying, “Dada”, which annoyed his wife who hoped at least one of their children would have the heart to say, “Mama”, first and so Joe decided to come up with an idea on his own, but nothing came to mind.
“What did you think of my six sentence story?” Joe asked his family.
“That’s only one sentence,” his wife said.
“It sounded like twenty sentences to me,” his daughter said.
“I didn’t understand a word of it,” his son said.
So he posted it.
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Denise offers the prompt word “heart” for this week’s Six Sentence Story.
Dale offers the prompt “water, water everywhere” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Do nothing more. Do nothing less.
Do only what you’re told—don’t guess.
And then rejoice. The Lord will bless
you through each day He’s made.
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Ronovan Hester offers “loyalty” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Psalm 118:24
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Although Jeremy and his wife, Martha, welcomed everyone to the warehouse they converted into a chapel, there were signs telling newcomers before they entered to first write the names of any demons they planned on keeping outside on the wall of the building facing the street. Martha waited by the wall for any who were foolish enough to want to keep a demon.
Those who slipped past Martha ran into Jeremy wearing a T-shirt that read: I specialize in scaring the HELL out of stuff. When he asked them if they’d like to get rid of their demons they didn’t completely understand what they were being asked to do, but to be polite and figuring they didn’t have any demons, except maybe little ones, said, “Sure, Pastor, go for it.”
So, in the name of Jesus and in a loud voice, Jeremy rebuked in detail god-awful lists of demonic addictions and disabling stupidities that burned convicting blushes on their cheeks. He then said, “Your demons are gone and you’ve been forgiven for the time you’ve wasted playing games with them, but it’s up to you to decide whether you’ll run after them or stay here to rejoice with thanksgiving.”
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Denise offers the prompt word “game” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Revelation 21:27
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Dale offers the prompt “shades of gray” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Without having to change a color photo to black and white, the sand on a beach offers a lot of gray.
These photos were taken on the beaches at the 71st and 72nd streets of Miami Beach.
We lead although our efforts mock
the Lord whom even we can’t shock.
We should have spoken to the rock
instead of striking it.
We do what we’re not told to do.
We think our thoughts are always true,
but there’s no way we can get through
unless we go through Him.
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Ronovan Hestor offers the inspiration “leadership” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted in Poet’s Corner.
Numbers 20:7-12
7 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
9 And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
12 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 