The Lord protects you. Have no fear.
His voice is faithful, true and clear.
His voice is all you need to hear
while walking by His side.
Be healed from every worry, woe.
Where Jesus leads there we will go.
When troubles think they’re winning know
His Spirit’s deep inside.
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Ronovan Hester offers “survival” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. The poem also appears on Poet’s Corner.
It was the night the virgin sang her lullaby.
The angel, shining with the glory of the Lord and fearful to behold, gave glad tidings of great joy. The joy was without limit. Look for the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger.
Then the heavenly hosts praised God, saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
In Bethlehem we found the child.
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Denise offers the prompt word “limit” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories. For what really happened see Luke 2.
Dale offers the prompt “a cold start” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Below are pictures of snow taken some years ago to help all of those in northern climates get ready for winter.
In South Carolina, it is cool, but not this cold. These pictures remind me of one reason why we moved south although there were times that the snow was beautiful and I do miss those.
Neil recalculated using a different ratio of aligned nuclei in his controversial water-hydrogen model. Fifteen minutes later the results gave him the number he was looking for, 7576.3, with intermediate computations validating the steps, but with an uncertainty of 21.2. He wanted a tighter uncertainty before submitting his paper to the Institute, but the main result, regardless of the uncertainty detail, was well below Hardy’s upper bound of 7670.
Neil’s wife called from downstairs, Earth to Daddy, pizza’s ready!
His daughter also called, Earth to Daddy, pizza, pizza, pizza!
Neil walked down the stairs, picked up his giggling daughter, kissed his smiling wife and led a prayer of thanksgiving over the food knowing that, whatever the uncertainty, his family had much to rejoice over.
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Denise offers the prompt word “detail” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “through an opening” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
These are all older photos over many years. In the first photo, I imagined the clouds making an opening for the sun to shine.
In the second, the rocks made an opening for the plants to grow.
In the third I imagined the cracks between the stones forming the Western Wall in Jerusalem made an opening for petitions.
We used to sing a simple song
and both of us would sing along.
Though it was soft with lyrics strong
we sing that song no more.
Though other songs have come and gone
the songs that I still linger on
are soft and simple, deeply drawn
from one song long ago.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “thankful” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted at Poet’s Corner.
This poem now also appears on Spillwords.
I wrote this poem in the Ovi form after listening last Friday evening to Jimmy Webb‘s song MacArthur Park sung by Richard Harris before I knew this week’s inspiration word. I am thankful for all the songs.
George listened to Anton say, Those in Hell want to be there. This convinced George that Anton hung onto reality by only a looney link since why would anyone ever want to be in a place like that?
When George died and went to Hell he became a prominent commander in Satan’s army commissioned to nuke the daylights out of Heaven. By contrast when Anton died he went to Heaven.
George exhausted himself throughout his eternity attacking Heaven in every which way he could imagine with extreme prejudice. However, Heaven being what it is, Anton noticed none of it.
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Denise offers the prompt word “link” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
I got the idea that I put in Anton’s mouth that those in Hell wanted to be there from the following passage in The Great Divorce.
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. (C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, page 75)
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 