Dale offers the theme “in the clouds” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I look forward to clouds when taking a photo of a sunrise to offer some variety and color.
The photos below were taken in southern Florida on the Atlantic Ocean. Sometimes there are birds and sometimes not.
Believing the best way to deal with someone was not to beat him over the head with a club Brian manipulated George with psychology. George, on the other hand, preferred the club.
Over the years these two friends found lovely brides and got married raising children who had children until Brian died which made George wonder if he should have used the club less often. Without Brian’s subliminal influence George felt the only thing left to do was grow old.
That was when an undeserved miracle gave George a wallop knocking some sense back into him and letting him know he wasn’t quite dead yet. After that the grandchildren longed to hear his tall tales while his own children listened and even his wife respectfully responded to his loving touch which frankly shocked him but not as much as it pleased her like an answered prayer.
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Denise offers the prompt word “club” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Ephesians 5:33 “Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.” (KJV)
Dale offers the theme “a change in the weather” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
The first photo shows mild rain coming in from the Atlantic Ocean. This is unrelated to the recent hurricane.
The second photo is a sunset followed by storm clouds over a meadow.
Jeremy tried to spark some vitality into his life, but reality kept blowing it out.
His dietician suggested replacing the stuff that went into his mouth with other stuff, but he didn’t like that other stuff. The family counselor suggested he forgive his wicked sister Felicity, but that wasn’t going to happen. His anxiety over unlikely disasters wouldn’t leave no matter how many shrinks he paid to worry about them.
Reality refused to repent of its evil ways. Over the years all it did was add to Jeremy’s baggage until he couldn’t get a good night’s sleep even after wicked Felicity preceded him in death.
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Denise offers the word “spark” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the theme “sunsets” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I wasn’t able to get a photo of the sunset recently, so I picked two photos from places where I used to live.
The first is from Miami Beach, Florida, and the last is from Northbrook, Illinois.
The entrance from the street was locked long ago still George waited for the iron bars to rust away. Perhaps it would turn out as the dark spirits predicted, though everyone knew they were liars, that one day the whole doorway would collapse letting the riff-raff in, but now those crossed bars mirrored a knot of frustration in his throat he couldn’t swallow down.
George remembered how that very door swayed open allowing anyone ready to enter to do so. Unfortunately, that was when he didn’t have much oil in his lamp and his clothes were stained. When the door shut he knocked on it demanding management give him more time to get ready. That was when he got so, ever ever so, demonically annoyed upon hearing a strange voice say “I never knew you” that the iron bars had to be added for his own protection.
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Denise offers the prompt word “knot” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Matthew 7:23 – “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (KJV)
Dale offers the theme “in memory” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge which coincides with the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
I selected views of two graveyards.
The military graveyard is well maintained. The goat (or whatever it is) in the other one, off to the left side on the rocks, keeps the vegetation under control.
The battle is right between your ears.
Andrew Wommack, Spiritual Warfare 101 (beginning 4:45 in the video below)
We are currently on vacation. This post was written about a week ago. God bless you!
Brian’s cold was a regular part of his seasonal doldrums starting about November and lasting till Spring. The liturgy minister in the church he attended, knowing Brian’s talent with a guitar, wondered if he would like to join the Sunday worship band. Brian told him about his cold even though the cold didn’t stop him from doing anything he really wanted to do.
Without warning the minister put his hand on Brian’s shoulder and prayed out loud while everyone watched that Brian be healed. Embarrassed but courteous Brian accepted the prayer expecting nothing much from it. Three days later the cold was gone and it never returned.
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Denise offers the word “band” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
I am on vacation, but this story occurred to me and so I scheduled it for today without being able to participate in the link party.
Dale offers the prompt “on the road” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
We will be on the road (vacation) ourselves tomorrow for a couple of weeks. I am debating whether to take my computer or not. May God bless all of you!
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 