The sun is setting westward deep
and Venus shining soon will sleep.
My trust’s in Him and He will keep
my heart in perfect peace.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “wisdom” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. It is wise to trust in Him. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Isaiah 26:3 KJV – Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
At the end of the day in Tampa, Greg went to Clearwater Beach (latitude 27.9772, longitude -82.8279) to watch the sun set. Earlier that day he saw the sun rise on Miami Beach.
As the sun began its entry below the waters of the Gulf of America, Greg quickly phoned his brother on a boat in the Indian Ocean near the Cocos Islands (latitude -27.9772, longitude 97.1721) to ask him, “Where do you see the sun in the sky where you are right now?”
“Right now it’s rising in the east,” his brother said.
“How is it possible that I’m seeing the sun half-way below the horizon in the west while you’re watching it rise half-way above the horizon in the east?”
“That’s what you get when you talk to someone on the opposite side of a globe.”
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Denise offers the prompt word “entry” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
There’s not much to this story except that I have some friends who have been trying to convince me that the earth is flat. This is sort of a rebuttal to their argument.
I was also looking for an opportunity to use the new name, Gulf of America. It took a minute to make the AI tool in the Brave browser admit that the correct name is the Gulf of America considering my current location in Florida although it tried to convince me otherwise.
Dale offers the prompt “first hints of spring” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
We sow to the Spirit, not to the flesh.
We reap of the Spirit life everlasting.
Galatians 6:7 KJV – Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Don’t hesitate to do what you
have heard that you’re supposed to do.
Get all that done. The sky’s still blue
and you’re still in His rest.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “opportunity” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Hebrews 4:9-11 KJV – 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
“When it comes to dragons I’m with Saint George,” Paul said.
“You’d wound or even kill them?”
“With a sword,” Paul affirmed.
“They’ll go extinct!” Paul’s opposition cried.
“Precisely,” Paul said resting on a bunch of obvious assumptions which, since they’re obvious, don’t need to be stated.
At this point I must confess that I don’t know where this story’s going so I’ll just end it by saying, I’m with Paul, or, if you prefer, being more with Paul’s opposition, just pretend I said, Look, squirrel!
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Denise offers the prompt word “wound” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Revelation 12:7-9 KJV –
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Dale offers the prompt “portals” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. Also linked to Thursday Doors.
The two images below show the opened door of a Miami Beach Lifeguard station at about 72nd Street on North Beach.
Admittedly it might be hard to see the door.
But it’s there.
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Linked to Thursday Doors.
So, if you let the devil run
your mouth and think you’ve won,
with fleeting words you’ve not begun
to walk the narrow way.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “fleeting” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted in Poet’s Corner.
James 1:26 KJV –If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
During the regular part of the Sunday service when Brian satirized critics of his ministry, he read, out-loud, a social media post which commanded that the eyes of everyone in his congregation start functioning with “20/20, cataract-less, floater-less, astigmatism-less, whatever-ails-you-less perfect vision”.
“Fat chance that’s going to happen,” Brian mocked just before his six-year old granddaughter sitting in the front row, nearly blind from birth, jumped up and down screaming, “Grandpops, Grandpops, I can SEE!!“
As others in the congregation admitted sudden vision improvement as well, Brian wondered if his own eyes had been healed (hoping not). Looking down at his Bible, a ministry-produced, three-ribboned, leather-bound, authorized version adulterated with his commentaries, he was surprised to clearly make out even the fine print of the footnotes without glasses.
For the next hour Brian read verse after verse. When he finally looked up, all that came out of his mouth was: “So that’s what it says.”
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Denise offers the prompt word “perfect” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 