Forever Faithful

Forever Faithful

May 21, 2020 Off By Lisa

The driving rain sliced at Danny’s cheeks and hands as he lashed himself to the mast, prepared to ride out the storm. Another blade of lightning cut through the sky and he though thought of his military days before his present life, the years when he learned to love and respect the power of the sky and the sea.

Eternal Father, strong to save, whose arm does bind the restless wave,

“This captain might go down with the ship,” he yelled to the raging storm around him, “but I’ll be damned if he’s going to get swept away from it and lost forever in the deep!”

Who bids the mighty ocean deep its own appointed limits keep;

As thunder and waves continued to crash in concert around him, Danny thought of Melinda and of their rambunctious kids – every one of them looked like him but behaved like her, thank God – and he focused his mind squarely on the forever they had planned.

O hear us when we cry to Thee for those in peril on the sea.

“OK, God,” he said as he nodded confidently to the sky, it’s just you and me and the water now, and I believe we already know you can handle that.”

 

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Written in response to this week’s Six Sentence Stories challenge, hosted by Girlie on the Edge. Each week writers are challenged to spin a tale in just six sentences. 

This week’s cue is ETERNAL.

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