You want to flee? Where will you go?
The wedding feast will happen though.
You have been chosen. Don’t say no.
Just answer. You’ve been called.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “flight” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 22:14 KJV – For many are called, but few are chosen.
The devil tempted George to curse the idiots around him, to just lay into them with full force. However, George couldn’t see what good that would do, so – since the devil reminded him of them – he blessed them instead.
Annoyed by George’s disobedience – not that George owed the devil any obedience whatsoever – the devil then reminded him that his silly blessings amounted to a hill of beans on the commodity market of prayers, because everyone knew those idiots weren’t going to change no matter how nice he was to them.
Don’t forget, George, that it is up to them to decide if they want to change, not you which was the only observation the devil made that George could agree with.
Regardless, those blessings were a win-win-win for George.
If nothing happened, as the devil predicted, those George blessed would remain good examples to point out of bad behavior, but if something unexpected happened – something admittedly miraculous in their cases – they would become an awesome fount of blessings for everyone around them and yet no matter what they did by blessing them George at least did what he was told to do: bless, and curse not.
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Denise offers the prompt “market” for this week’s Six Sentence Story.
Dale offers the prompt “in the evening light” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
A couple weeks ago I went to the ocean to watch the full moon rise. The first photo shows one of the pictures I took.
The second photo was taken some years ago in Tiberias watching the moon over the Sea of Galilee. The third was back at the Atlantic Ocean.
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Forgive? Because? Because. Because!
His love will be and always was
and even now in all He does
His love has overcome.
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Ronovan Hestor offers the inspiration “survive” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. To survive in style you have to forgive. Or, put it this way, if you should happen to survive without His love, what good is it?
Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Romans 8:38-39 KJV – 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Unable to naturally get there from here, Brian began mythologizing. He wasn’t sure if he should make it new-age spooky or stick to his usual pseudo-science.
Trying to make a good impression he began at the beginning with In the beginning the universe popped itself out of nothing and after an eternity it randomly evolved into what we see today.
He realized that no one in his right mind would buy that, but just how many people actually were in their right minds today nobody knew.
Just in case there were still a few around, Brian continued with Then the witch told the wizard that if you keep stirring the pot eventually no one will be in his right mind.
None of this is supposed to make any sense, so don’t worry except for the fact that Brian has been stirring the pot ever since.
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Denise offers the prompt word “impression” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Psalm 14:3 KJV – They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Dale offers the prompt “pick a colour” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Since I am near huge bodies of water at the moment, I’ll choose the color blue.
To add contrast I’ll also include the reds and yellows of a sunset and the dark silhouettes of trees and maybe even some people if they get in the way.
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I found the following video on Dianne Marshall’s blog post this morning.
It is filled with Bible quotes.
Glancing at the channel’s playlists I doubt that I would agree with everything they teach, but the above video I could find no objection to. If you do, let me know in the comments.
The Holy Spirit provides the wisdom we all need to discern the truth.
I plan to select some of the verses presented in this video to use with my photography, such as the following:
The grave is empty. Risen King,
the One Who saves, to Him we sing.
There isn’t a more joyful thing
than walking where He leads.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “release” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. The grave could not hold Him captive. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 28:2-7 KJV – 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 