My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
You think the world is in a mess?
No longer: He is risen!
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “hope” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge.
The first two lines were written by Edward Mote (1797-1874) as the first two lines of his well-known hymn.
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May you have a blessed Resurrection Day with an overflow of blessings to others.
George picked up the couple near the entrance to the interstate knowing there would not likely be many cars going north at this hour of the evening. Clearly, the woman was pregnant, but when he found out they needed to go a hundred miles out of his way, George hesitated, but it was getting darker and she was pregnant.
Over two hours later George dropped them off at their apartment in a small town in the timberlands of Maine. As George started his truck to leave noting the fuel gauge with confidence that he had enough gas to return and getting ready to slide back into his normal routine that had been going nowhere, the man offered him the only thing he had besides his thanks: “May the Lord bless you.”
Decades later when George and his wife were hosting an Easter dinner with their children’s families and their children’s children’s families including their new great granddaughter, he remembered that young couple and told all of them the story.
When George said, “Their child would be more than sixty years old by now,” he realized, with the love of his family all around him, that, indeed, he had received over all those years blessing upon blessing with overflows of blessings to share.
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Denise offers the prompt word “slide” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Matthew 25:40
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Dale offers the prompt “the arrival of spring” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
We are in Florida. I don’t know what these plants are, but they look like signs of Spring.
Hebrews 8:10-12
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
For those in His new covenant, the Lord remembers our sins and our iniquities no more.
The important questions are Whom do we know? Has His laws been written in our hearts? Are they in our minds? Are we in His new covenant?
To walk on water take His hand.
Forget the beach, its shells and sand.
Forget wet water as you stand
on Love’s deep rush of joy.
Don’t worry if you can not swim.
Your love’s forever born of Him.
When words betray the world as grim,
you’re now its salt and light.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “tragedy” to be used in this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 5:13-14
Ye are the salt of the earth…Ye are the light of the world…
1 John 4:7-8
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Anticipating the eventual manifestation of his healing Sam began singing a happy song which he made up as he went along mainly repeating the words, “Hallelujah”, “Thank you, Jesus” and “I am healed” over and over and over again.
Sensing an opportunity to get a word in edgewise and expecting Sam to know the difference between the play money of an “eventual manifestation of healing” and an actual testimony one could take to the bank, the devil said, “You’re not.”
When Sam’s wife heard him suddenly stop singing, she asked, “Did the devil say you weren’t healed?”
“Yes.”
“That devil’s a doofus.”
HA ha ha ha—HA ha ha—HA ha ha ha—HA ha ha—which offended their high maintenance devil so much that it threatened to leave and when it finally did even the bankers recognized Sam’s testimony as golden.
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Denise offers the prompt word “bank” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “looking through” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Begone dark spirits everywhere
that seed offense to grow despair.
No power worth the having’s there
since Love flows not through it.
And may bright blessings fall on you,
your loved ones, your whole family, too.
May living waters rush on through
to everyone you meet.
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Ronovan Hester offers “family” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Dale offers the prompt “interesting buildings” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Below are photos of the wall around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem I took a couple years ago.
There might be value in a school
unless the teacher is a fool
who doesn’t know the golden rule,
but teaches other ones.
But if the Teacher’s truly wise,
let not your heart His words despise,
but follow. You’ll receive the prize
your spirit’s yearning for.
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Ronovan Hester offers “school” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
John 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 