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Combination—Six Sentence Story

Bart dreamed that a rich man gave him the combination to the lock on his storeroom and told him to take all the gold and jewelry he could carry out. Joyfully he stuffed his pockets.

When a child approached with his hands out the rich man told him to give something to the child, but Bart said, “No, I have to fill my own barn!”

Nonetheless Bart obeyed the rich man giving the child the tiniest gold coin he had crammed away somewhere which turned into a loaf of bread and a fish in the child’s hands. Others seeing what happened rushed to receive something as well.

After Bart opened his eyes from his dream to the morning light and the sound of birds and put on his threadbare clothes to leave the shelter he recalled that his pockets in that dream remained mysteriously full no matter how fast the rivers of living water welled up from within him to give everything away.

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Denise offers this prompt word “combination” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

John 7:37-38
37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Victory—Ovi Poetry Challenge

No matter what the news may show
or what the mocking monsters throw,
go make your choice. Remember, though,
the Lord will always win.

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Ronovan Hester offers the word “victory” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. This was also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Sunrise Over the Sea of Galilee

Text—Six Sentence Story

In the good old days the Ninevites were a wicked bunch. The Lord told Jonah to tell them to either repent or be severely punished which sent Jonah off on a boat in the opposite direction, because he knew, like everyone else, except perhaps the Lord, that Nineveh did not deserve an opportunity to repent.

When the Lord roughed up the waves to destructive levels below the boat Jonah was fleeing on, the reluctant crew threw him overboard at his own request so the sea would calm. A fish sent by the Lord scooped him into its mouth and held him in a disgusting state of indigestion for three days and three nights until the Lord finally let the fish relieve its bellyache by vomiting its cargo onto the shore. Then the Lord asked Jonah once again to tell the Ninevites to repent lest He destroy them.

Jonah recited the bare text of the Lord’s message hoping no one in Nineveh would listen, but the grotesque stench coming from his direction only confirmed the conspiracy theories about a fish and a boat and, since no one in Nineveh wanted whatever happened to him to happen to them, they all repented.

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Denise offers the prompt word “text” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories. For what really happened see the short book of Jonah. Jonah son of Amittai was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam II: 2 Kings 14:25.

One Thing Inside Another

Dale offers the prompt “one thing inside another” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

In the first photo there are tiny plants growing inside the space between the rocks.

In the second, there’s a heart inside this huge palm branch, if you can see it.

In the third, there are three (oops, make that four) tiny birds inside this sunrise.

Plants growing inside the protection of stones
A heart inside a palm branch
Four birds inside a sunrise

Traps—Ovi Poetry Challenge

Don’t tolerate that tiny lie.
Deception rules until a cry
demands to know the reason why
we took God’s joy away.

If truth be known, the lies we spread
are moldy, wormy, wretched bread.
They’re traps that no one would be fed
were they not so deceived.

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Ronovan Hester offers “trap” as the inspiration word for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Chicago and Lake Michigan