Although Timothy treated no one badly, neither was he very kind. He plan was to keep himself busy looking for the chance of a lifetime that kept slipping from his grasp.
His view of God wasn’t all that different from his view of anyone else he didn’t pay much attention to. Should someone ask him if he loved his neighbor as himself, he’d say, Sure, why not?
One day it was Timothy’s day to go through the pearly gates. Although he got through (perhaps by the skin of his pearly teeth or perhaps because there really is Someone who generously hands out unmerited mercy – if the heart can handle it – rather than gotcha karma with interest), he regretted all he could have done differently when he had – all along – that chance of a lifetime.
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Denise offers the prompt word “plan” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 