Renew the mind. That man is dead
who once chose carnal junk instead.
We fill our hearts with what we’ve read
that He now lives in us.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “calm” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
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.
Dale offers the prompt “in my warm place” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
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Suppose it looks like the first picture below outside. The best thing to do is to not go out in it (unless you want to take some pictures).
If you have to go out in it, it is better to first go where it doesn’t snow and where you can swim all year round and take pictures of the sunrise.
Although there are normal looking streets in Prague’s more modern areas, around the old town they are narrow with shops lining the mostly pedestrian paths.
Actually, I don’t know much about Prague. The reason I’m running my mouth is because I have to move the photos down on the page so they can be displayed better.
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Posted as part of Thursday Doors.
Sacred words, how they abound.
They whisper with a louder sound.
They turn a doubting heart around
to praise once more with song.
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Ronovan Hester offers “persevere” as the inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Those sacred words persevere. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Dale offers the prompt “down in the park” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
From our townhome I can see the parkway. Walking down the hill and crossing the road I am in a park which used to be a golf course. There are trails, open spaces, a lake built from a dam and an occasional abandoned building.
These photos were taken over the past two years since we moved here.
Look through the arch and you will see a building. Look closer towards the center of the two photos and you will see a middle door with two side doors.
The arch way is a kind of door or entrance as well leading to Prague’s Old Town.
If you go in the other direction crossing the Vltava River you will reach the castle.
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Posted as part of Thursday Doors.
When tears that let you see arrive
you’ll feel at last you’ve come alive.
You’ll hear Him tell you softly, “I’ve
been with you all this time.”
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “cheer” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 