Stephen worked on his speech the whole week to make sure every word and every pause, noted with a comma, was just right.
When the day came for him to speak he didn’t want to forget anything. He printed his speech in big letters on many sheets of paper so he could see the words clearly.
As he looked out upon the crowd who were wondering what he would have to say gusts of wind carried away those sheets of paper leaving him with, seemingly, nothing to rely on as he spoke.
Although what Stephen said was in line with what he had prepared the words that came out of his own mouth surprised him. The crowd prepared its punch with murderous anger but when it was all over Stephen was carried away, victorious, by the King of glory.
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Denise offers the prompt word “punch” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Acts 7:54-56 KJV
54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 