With sympathy we search each face
and God protects with saving grace.
Impatient thoughts have lost their place
to joy. We walk as one.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “sympathy” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Somewhat less than eight thousand years ago in Eden, before the flood plowed, sifted and buried the place below a mile or so of sediment, Eve, and then Adam, found out the difference between good and evil. Henceforward, the only Creator-creature distinction that would be worth remembering was that God was good and they weren’t.
Before the incident with the forbidden fruit they didn’t need to know that. After it, creation itself shook, because they had been given dominion over the Earth and their style of dominion messed things up.
Today the Jacks and Jills, fighting all the way, are still climbing hills which rose above the retreating flood waters searching for the Living Water that would give them the power to stop falling down again and again. Should they ever find that Water, creation itself would rejoice.
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Denise offers the prompt word “style” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Story.
Rom 8:19 KJV – 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Jack and Jill
went up the hill
to fetch a pale of water.
Jack fell down
and broke his crown
and Jill came tumbling after.
Mother Goose (from memory)
Our treasure’s known through what we say
and shown in what we do each day.
So may our lamps stay lit and may
we value what stays blessed.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “treasure” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Some rambling prophet said, Either the Spirit or one of those other spirits will be blessing or cursing….
James heard enough. He closed the YouTube tab.
Downstairs his younger brother and sister were running about in the early morning light excited to see that Santa came.
And I will be joining James downstairs as soon as I figure out a way to use the prompt word, “admission”, in this six sentence story. Whether I figure that out or not, whatever words I do write may they be words of blessing to shatter every curse: Merry Christmas!
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Denise offers the prompt word “admission” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
The Lord is true. He knows the way.
Remember: He is here to stay,
forever and this present day,
this day our Lord has made.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “remember” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Psalm 118:24 KJV – This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
The promise moved from Eve down through the generations. At each dip along the way the Lord was faithful to break every faithless fall.
Finally, as sure as the rising of the sun but against every natural odd, the promise reached a young virgin whom we know today as Maria or Mary. As a servant of the Lord she spoke the simple, but universe transforming, words of obedience: Be it done unto me according to your word.
And so it was.
Mary gave birth to Jesus in Bethlehem Who would fulfill the promise the Lord made to Eve long, long ago.
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Denise offers the prompt word “dip” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Genesis 3:13-16 KJV – 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Gen 4:1 KJV – And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Luke 1:38 KJV – And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
Luke 1:46-47 KJV – 46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
Dale offers us the challenge this week to post whatever we consider our best photographs of this past year.
I took these last summer, but I had no reason to post them.
Thank you for the the prompts this year, Dale!
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Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 