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.
Dale offers the prompt “taken from below” to be used in this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
These were all taken on Normandy Isle of Miami Beach, Florida.
May blessings flow on all of those
especially where conflicts rose.
So, demons, note: I won’t compose
a loveless fantasy.
Unwelcome thoughts like seeds were sown.
Offenses grew. I will not own
what stifles joy to ever groan.
The weeding season’s come.
Now, deadly darkness can’t annoy.
Defeated demons can’t destroy.
The coming harvest laughs with joy,
with joy forever more.
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Ronovan Hester offers “positivity” as this week’s inspiration for the Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Although Sam’s wife was ready with cough drops, apple cider vinegar and honey she was getting annoyed with his colds. After they rebuked any spirits of infirmity, she opened an audio Bible on her phone, selected the Book of Psalms and set them to play continuously throughout the night.
Sam would pop out of dreams to hear a psalm he was familiar with and then seemingly moments later one he didn’t remember hearing before. The cooling perspiration on his chest in the morning made him realize: he was healed!
The demons who tried to nail him down and make him useless couldn’t get a moment’s worth of peace with those psalms playing. However, considering their defeat at the battle of the Resurrection, those psalms were better than what they’d have to face when the end finally came.
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Denise offers the prompt word “nail” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “wide open spaces” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
One of two things happens as they pass by. Either they start rationalizing or they start crying.
We try to reason with those who start rationalizing. When that doesn’t work, we get rough. When that doesn’t work, our hearts break.
All we do for those who cry is let God wipe away their tears.
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Denise offers the prompt word “pass” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “bare trees” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 