#sixsentencestories – Page 8 – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

How To Get There From Here—Six Sentence Story

Sam knew he couldn’t get there from here, at least not on his own smarts, but he agreed to go.

The still small voice told him to move to Colorado, then Florida and then Maine. Although those moves made no sense, he moved anyway, since he knew he didn’t have the smarts to know what to do next. At every turn he took the time to listen and then do what the voice told him to do.

One day Sam was overwhelmed with joy to realize that he and the still small voice had been living, seemingly for years, in a wonderful dwelling paneled with righteousness and furnished with goodness and mercy.

The still small voice said, “I told you we’d get here when you agreed to go with Me.”

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

Do That To Me—Six Sentence Story

Tim didn’t know the minister, Daniel, nor most of the other people at the small church gathering in his neighbor’s home. He was surprised when a young woman collapsed to her knees in tears and then lay on the floor as Daniel spoke words of blessing over her.

When Daniel asked Tim to tell them how he first met Jesus, he wasn’t sure how that happened, but knowing it must have, he stood, held Daniel’s hands and began telling his story, a type of incoherent, shaky narrative that went from repentance to repentance to finally moving next door to them. While speaking he thought to himself that he so wished his testimony were better.

The next thing Tim knew he was looking up at Daniel apparently from having fallen over backwards to the floor caught on the way down by a man standing behind him, just in case.

An older woman who had attended many of these meetings rushed to Daniel saying Do that to me! even though, or maybe, because, both she and Daniel knew he wasn’t the One who made Tim fall like that.

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

I found this song on Greg Doles’ blog, Chasing Light

Clawing Critters—Six Sentence Story

Steve realized that by giving in to temptations, symptoms of his ailing heart, he invited demonic critters to claw their way in and smother his mind with gooey addictions. Nonetheless, he kept giving in—over and over again—and the critters got so used to being in his head that they took up residence.

Someone asked Steve if he wanted to get rid of the critters. By that time he wasn’t sure if he did, because he didn’t know if he could tolerate life without the excitement the temptations brought even though afterwards they made him feel miserable. Steve’s heart, however, had enough sense left in it to scream, I WANT THEM GONE!

And just like that the critters were gone which Steve found hard to believe, but there wasn’t any other way for them to leave except just like that.

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

Mark 5:18-20 NKJV
18 And when He got into the boat, he who had been demon-possessed begged Him that he might be with Him.
19 However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.”
20 And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.

The Calling—Six Sentence Story

As James was wallowing in his favorite garbage someone called his name. When he saw that no one was there he went back to making a wreck of his life.

Then James heard the same voice that called him earlier tell him to become a minister of the Gospel. Fat chance that was going to happen, he thought, but the voice interrupted him with You’re goofing off on holy ground! The voice had that je ne sais quoi that made it too real to be unreal even for a garbage connoisseur like James.

His friends were shocked as they watched James take out the garbage and turn that fat chance into a sure bet that he would do something with his life that he had never suspected.

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

Acts 9:5 NKJV Who are You, Lord?

This train had to make a complete circle to get itself pointed in the right direction—I was on it

Foil—Six Sentence Story

When Claude was twelve years old he got tuberculosis. He began singing a new song as his family prayed for his recovery.

He sang that no grave could hold his body down. He sang about bands of angels coming for him to take him to Jesus.

The Lord loves to foil the dastardly deeds of the devil.

So did Claude as he received his healing.

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

Psalms 96:1 KJV
O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.

A modern version of Claude’s song

Claude Ely singing his song

Wind—Six Sentence Story

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.

Philosophical Foam—Six Sentence Story

George decided to write his Philosophy of Everything so future generations could be as confused as he was.

He wrote and wrote and wrote explaining how spacetimes instantiated invisible worlds wherever a wavefunction collapsed. Not liking the idea of other people’s minds getting in the way with objections, he reduced them to mindless matter. He called his branch of philosophical foam The New Mysterianism of the Matter Mind.

Eventually George published his book.

Not even the devil bothered to read it.

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

Colossians 2:8 KJV
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Relic—Six Sentence Story

Looking at the relics of his past, those lingering memories of his old habits, George couldn’t see how he got from there to here no matter how many self-help programs he pursued. Oh, sure, he gave most of those programs five-stars, but he knew none of them helped and none of them did.

The problem was that it’s hard to love when one loves to whine. And George’s imagination gave him plenty of targets for his wrath.

Then George gave up, figuring it was most likely all his own fault. Laughing, the Lord said, “Finally!”

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

The idea for this story came from Mary “Tq Housecat” who called Romans 5:1-9 “the best six-sentence story ever written!”

Dream—Six Sentence Story

Between the evening and the morning Bryan’s dream suddenly came true. When he realized what had happened he began dancing and shouting with joy.

Offended by all the noise, Bryan’s mind, being rational and all, reminded him, “Your dream couldn’t have happened in a billion years!”

Bryan’s celebrating stopped.

Though officially brainless, Bryan’s gut made an observation: “Well, we do know that a dream with a supposed look-back time of a billion years actually happened, don’t we?” The confused body parts remained silent until they felt Bryan himself resume his joy with thankfulness.

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

Genesis 1:5 KJV
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Don’t Worry—Six Sentence Story

When Gerald’s daughter acted goofy, he said, Don’t worry. He reminded her that she finished college with an advanced degree in half the time it took him to do so.

When Gerald’s son acted goofy, he said, Don’t worry. In the good old days his own brain used to hatch even worse ideas that he unfortunately followed.

When Gerald’s wife acted goofy, he said, Don’t worry. I still love you.

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

Romans 8:37-39 KJV
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.