If it be good it’s done with love.
Give evil an eternal shove.
Think only what God’s thinking of.
Receive a faithful rest.
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Ronovan Hester offers the word “love” to be used as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
In the parody of parochial schools that Nathaniel was writing he had Sister Mary Martha, his own third grade teacher, say, “No matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t get rid of Jesus.” With his tongue in his own cheek he made her stumble like a strawman through an account of the Resurrection, a belief he himself had become too smart to take seriously.
However, as he recalled the smoothness of her face, ancient from the perspective of a ten-year old, he now saw the face of someone less than half his own mid-sixties age as he let her ramble on about how the followers of Jesus would rise to sing His praises even as they were killed. Putting two and two together he calculated that she must have been recently out of her teens, close in age to his granddaughter. He found an online obituary which reported that she served at the school for fifty-five years until the very day of her death at the age of 75.
Perhaps it was due to the notice of her death or to his realization of her age when she taught him or perhaps it was simply due to him returning to his early love for her, but whatever it was, Nathaniel decided to pitch what he wrote about his former teacher and he never touched the parody again.
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Denise offers the prompt word “pitch” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Catholic Eternal Rest Prayer
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let Your perpetual light shine upon them.
May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.
Revelation 2:4
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Dale offers the prompt “over the hills and far away” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The first photo is of the mountain range on the eastern side of the United State. It is a view from the Blue Ridge Parkway somewhere in North Carolina.
The second photo is of the mountain range on the western side. It was taken from a park in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
When a beam of dusty light through a dirty window brightened Jerome’s face he got out of bed woke awake. As a god of his own making, resting on his own authority, he was the good guy by definition. That meant everyone else was either a bad guy or had received temporary clearance papers to remain unscathed by his condemnations.
Since he didn’t consider it possible that he wasn’t much of a god nor that the good he did wasn’t all that good, he refused to repent when his own faults became obvious like contradictions staining an otherwise pristine proof. Being his own lord, why should he call upon Someone else?
Gambling that his tale would end when it was over, Jerome let it end with that.
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Denise offers the prompt word “beam” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Romans 10:13
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
I will not trust my heart to fate
the source of which convulses hate.
The serpent says its god is great.
I only trust the Lord.
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Ronovan Hester offers “fate” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Dale offers the prompt “as summer fades” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Samuel had no idea why he accepted the invitation to his friend’s wedding. He had long ago psyched out his former classmates whom he expected to be there as terminally weird. However, after the ceremony and dinner as the dancing began he saw something bubble over in their eyes he hadn’t noticed before. They suddenly weren’t the certifiable psychos he remembered them to be, but rather huggable people.
In the morning Samuel’s memories of the party faded into his intellectual reconstructions of nonreality. But even after he drank a full cup of strong coffee his newfound love for all of them refused to capitulate to the nuttiness of his own mind.
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Denise offers the prompt word ” cup” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
In passing I would have to say
that love is all that counts today.
If other stuff gets in the way,
repent: avoid the fall.
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Ronovan Hester offers the word “passing” to be used as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 