Tag: #sixsentencestories

Six Sentence Story: My Sunset, Your Sunrise

At the end of the day in Tampa, Greg went to Clearwater Beach (latitude 27.9772, longitude -82.8279) to watch the sun set. Earlier that day he saw the sun rise on Miami Beach.

As the sun began its entry below the waters of the Gulf of America, Greg quickly phoned his brother on a boat in the Indian Ocean near the Cocos Islands (latitude -27.9772, longitude 97.1721) to ask him, “Where do you see the sun in the sky where you are right now?”

“Right now it’s rising in the east,” his brother said.

“How is it possible that I’m seeing the sun half-way below the horizon in the west while you’re watching it rise half-way above the horizon in the east?”

“That’s what you get when you talk to someone on the opposite side of a globe.”

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Denise offers the prompt word “entry” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

There’s not much to this story except that I have some friends who have been trying to convince me that the earth is flat. This is sort of a rebuttal to their argument.

I was also looking for an opportunity to use the new name, Gulf of America. It took a minute to make the AI tool in the Brave browser admit that the correct name is the Gulf of America considering my current location in Florida although it tried to convince me otherwise.

Two birds watching the sun rise over the Flood Waters of Noah

Six Sentence Story: Dragons

“When it comes to dragons I’m with Saint George,” Paul said.

“You’d wound or even kill them?”

“With a sword,” Paul affirmed.

“They’ll go extinct!” Paul’s opposition cried.

“Precisely,” Paul said resting on a bunch of obvious assumptions which, since they’re obvious, don’t need to be stated.

At this point I must confess that I don’t know where this story’s going so I’ll just end it by saying, I’m with Paul, or, if you prefer, being more with Paul’s opposition, just pretend I said, Look, squirrel!

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Denise offers the prompt word “wound” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Revelation 12:7-9 KJV –
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Six Sentence Story: Perfect Vision

During the regular part of the Sunday service when Brian satirized critics of his ministry, he read, out-loud, a social media post which commanded that the eyes of everyone in his congregation start functioning with “20/20, cataract-less, floater-less, astigmatism-less, whatever-ails-you-less perfect vision”.

“Fat chance that’s going to happen,” Brian mocked just before his six-year old granddaughter sitting in the front row, nearly blind from birth, jumped up and down screaming, “Grandpops, Grandpops, I can SEE!!“

As others in the congregation admitted sudden vision improvement as well, Brian wondered if his own eyes had been healed (hoping not). Looking down at his Bible, a ministry-produced, three-ribboned, leather-bound, authorized version adulterated with his commentaries, he was surprised to clearly make out even the fine print of the footnotes without glasses.

For the next hour Brian read verse after verse. When he finally looked up, all that came out of his mouth was: “So that’s what it says.”

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Denise offers the prompt word “perfect” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

It is written.

Six Sentence Story: Jeffrey

Jeffrey’s reactions were like those of a corpse in an open coffin. No matter how you insulted him, no matter how harshly the wind of cursing blew across his face, he didn’t respond.

And they did insult him accusing him of this and that while lying about that and this. They gave him as much hell as their trapped imaginations could come up with. However, the service Jeffrey and his team agreed to perform demanded that they focus exclusively on the assignment.

They only had a brief period of time to free those brainwashed hostages before the missiles arrived.

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Denise offers the prompt word “wind” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Romans 12:1 KJV – I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

It is written.

Six Sentence Story: High Rank

George reached an age when his wickedness began to manifest in unrighteous ways on the shape of his body. For decades it had limited its manifestations to various wrinkles freezing funny frowns on his face, but now other parts of his body were wrecking havoc on his health.

It’s logically impossible – not that it hasn’t ever happened – for the wicked who have convinced themselves that they’re righteous to repent. The other guy has to go first. But that other guy, ranking as wickedly high on the righteousness scale as George has, isn’t about to do any such thing.

And that’s why this story about George isn’t going anywhere.

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Denise offers the prompt word “rank” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Six Sentence Story: Close

Adam’s first mistake was letting Eve wander off alone with that snake.

His second was listening to her.

Hey, Adam, you’ve gotta try this stuff! It’s off the chain.

His third was taking a bite.

And that’s how Adam closed the deal turning over dominion to the lords of the snake.

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Denise offers the prompt word “close” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Genesis 3:17 KJV – 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Six Sentence Story: Blend

Brian built a following by blending doom and gloom prophecies with prayer that the prophecies would not come true.

If a prophecy occurred, he took credit for being a pretty good prophet. If it didn’t, he declared that his prayers had enough pull with the Lord for them to work.

When Brian’s critics pointed out that being right on one leg of a hedged bet implied he would have to be wrong on the other, he ridiculed them. He reminded them that the Lord Himself was telling him what to do.

The Lord could not recall telling Brian anything.

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Denise offers the prompt word “blend” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Matthew 6:5 KJV – And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Six Sentence Story: Reflecting Pool

With ancient soundtracks playing in the background that synched with the mantras running from his mouth, the wizard gazed for spiritual insight into a large, shallow pool of water reflecting his image.

A voice said, What are you looking at, George?

Not used to hearing voices interfere with his imagination George asked, “What?”

You won’t find your way back on your own.

“That garden never existed,” he countered.

By the way, I didn’t make you in My image from stardust, but from the dust of the earth.

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Denise offers the prompt word “pool” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

[Chorus]
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover of Joni Mitchell’s song Woodstock

Matthew 7:13-14 KJV – 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Six Sentence Story: After Eden

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)

Where the Flood Waters Went as the Mountains Rose

From Holy Night to Merry Christmas—Six Sentence Story

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.