Like a child may we see
our Father moving lovingly,
the source of every mystery,
and rest within His hands.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “Dad” to be used in this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 6:9 KJV
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
I am grateful to Mark Shields for his poem accompanied by a link to the song below in “For the Heart and Mind”.
With a frequency that annoyed Steve, Brian would tell him, “You better get whatever you were supposed to do done before the world ends.”
“The world’s not going to end,” Steve responded one afternoon putting his attention back on the game which his team was winning.
“You never know,” Brian countered.
“I know.”
“You don’t.”
And just like that, to the surprise of both Steve and even Brian, the world ended.
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Denise offers the prompt word “frequency” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Luke 12:40 KJV
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Dale offers the prompt “sunrise sunset” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The house of cards they built fell down.
Still Love reigns holy with a crown.
The Truth’s alive, not dead. Don’t frown.
The Lord is by your side.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “motivation” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
John 14:1-6 KJV
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
When the scientist complained that just about everything he knew to be true was not, he heard his mind sing, “When the truth is found—duh-duh—to be-e-e-e-e lies!”
“I only said that it wasn’t true, not that it was a lie,” the scientist corrected his mind.
“Sorry,” his mind replied, “but you do know that it was a lie, don’t you?“
“Lie, schmie, who cares?”
“You do, but apparently you don’t know it yet.”
What the scientist did know was this interchange with whatever it was he kept calling his “mind” could go on and on—and on—and on and on and on and on and on and so he put an end to it by saying, “And with that we move on to the confused conclusion of the last sentence of our story.”
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Denise offers the prompt word “move” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “art for art’s sake” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Whatever motivated the creators of what is displayed in these images, as images I imagine them as art for its own sake.
Today the wondrous news is old.
The bones have dried. Their stories told.
Let fire start with burning bold.
Tomorrow they will rise.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “tomorrow” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Ezekiel 37:1-10 KJV
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which [was] full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, [there were] very many in the open valley; and, lo, [they were] very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but [there was] no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 