Frank Hubeny

The Sky’s the Limit

Dale offers the prompt “the sky’s the limit” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

These were taken over the Atlantic Ocean.

I thought the first photo had a great sunset with the swirling yellow light. Then the wind blew some clouds in turning that sunset into an even greater one below it.

While fretting over loveless things
instead of what the Spirit brings,
I stifled joy. The church bell rings.
There’s sadness in the wind.

His way is true. His burden light.
He found me through the dark of night.
I once was bound to wrong, not right,
but that was long ago.

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Ronovan Hester offers “choice” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge.

Seal—Six Sentence Story

In a few seconds Timothy scribbled a poem in his notebook while standing on the beach waiting for the sunrise. When he got home he read it and wondered where that came from as if he had found an exotic seashell or spotted a seal in the water.

Accepting the gift he cleaned it up and posted it on his favorite sites. Although no one “liked” it nor left a comment he kept reading it over and over wondering: Where did that come from?

At the end of the day Timothy was grateful for everything: birds, clouds, beach, water and just being there. In a week he’d forget the poem because there would be another one and the days of rejoicing and wonder would start all over again.

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

I am on vacation this week without access to the internet. Hopefully I will be back by Saturday in time to post this to the Six Sentence Story group before the deadline, but if not, I have scheduled it in advance for Wednesday evening.

2 Corinthians 13:14

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

*Badge by Laura @ riddlefromthemiddle.com*

More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Dale offers the prompt “more than the sum of its parts” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

As I see it any picture worth looking at is more than the sum of its parts. It suggests a story or an emotion that resonates with the viewer to make the viewer pause a little longer.

So, here are some photos that have made me pause.

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By the way, I am on “vacation” this week with our church group. Call it a “retreat”. So, I will not be looking at the computer during this time. I call that a form of “fasting”. Blessings to all of you!

Atlantic Ocean, a small portion of Noah’s flood waters

All of these colorful parts working together

Play—Ovi Poetry Challenge

The point of life is not to play
and while away the time of day.
We hear His voice and then obey.
We follow where He leads.

And if that is the most we do
no other path would get us through.
Rejoice and praise! Our hearts renew
and that is all that matters.

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Ronovan Hester offers the word “play” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Toast—Six Sentence Story

He can’t fool me with those magic tricks, George thought wondering why he was wasting his time watching a guy pull rabbits out of an empty hat. He yelled at the magician, “Hey, you with that rabbit in your hand, pitch the hat and pop another bunny out of thin air!” The magician didn’t know how to convince George to shut up, but neither could George convince God to toast the magician like Zeus would have done with a lightning bolt.

Admittedly, George didn’t believe in God (nor Zeus, for that matter) so he wasn’t seriously asking for assistance. Since the magician couldn’t make George vanish with a wave of his wand—try as he might—he finally phoned the security team to escort George out.

Decades later, when the magician was too old to bewitch even toddlers, George winced as he recalled his own truth-without-love rudeness and begged God to pull some kindness out of his now empty heart which the merciful Lord was only too happy to do.

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

Acts 8:9-11
⁹But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
¹⁰To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
¹¹And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

Isaiah 6:8

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

From Underneath

Dale offers the prompt “from underneath” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. Both of these photos were taken long ago.

In the first photo I was surprised by the feathery shadows on the leaves when taking this photo into the sun. This may be a common event but I have not been able to capture that in quite the same way since.

In the second photo many noisy birds in late autumn or early spring flew from one tree to another and then continued their song.