| ChristianCreativeWriters CONTEST WINNERS! | 6th SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNER:
LENN SNIDER
"My Friend, There's Someone I'd Like You to Meet"
6th POETRY CONTEST WINNER:
WORSHIPFREELY
"Cup of Wrath"
Joshua Fund Short Story Winner:
NANCE
"Tales of Meander"
Joshua Fund Poetry Winner:
ONEAGLESWINGS
"Over Joy Astounded"
5th SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNER:
ROGER1
"The Long Ago Kingdom of Burgers and Fries"
5th POETRY CONTEST WINNER:
HINEIMATOV
"Bride-to-Be"
4th SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNER:
JAK HARDY
"Ancient Lullaby"
4th POETRY CONTEST WINNER:
PAULINE CREEDEN
"Teacher's Log"
1st CHRISTMAS SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNER:
BEWHARY
"Birdseed Sandwiches:
1st CHRISTMAS POETRY CONTEST WINNER:
WORDSCULPTOR
"This Tree Has No Candles"
3rd SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNER:
ONEAGLESWINGS
"T'was the night before Christmas"
3rd POETRY CONTEST WINNER:
D.L. REYNOLDS'S
"Man"
2nd SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNER:
ROBERT DENNIS-WILSON’s
"The Rustic Doctor’s Tale"
2nd POETRY CONTEST WINNER:
ZARBLADE's
"Primal Drowning"
1st SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNER:
MICHELLE MILLER's
"The Bottom of the Barrel"
1st POETRY CONTEST WINNERS (Tied for 1st Place):
KATHERINE MATTOON 's
"Unsung Song"
&
MCMICHAEL13's
"My Son, Give Me Your Heart"
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| CCW POETRY CONTEST WINNER | Cup of Wrath – By: Worshipfreely  Could you lay down your life in such an egregious fashion
Take the spit, and the fists and the furious lashes
The taunts, and the heckles and the degradation
Hang like a joke before an entire nation
Take the thorns, bare the cross, or the spikes in your limbs
HE did it all for us, without a thought for HIM
Us selfish sinners who wouldn't even believe
And the leaders of your people did their best to deceive
Even Pilate proclaimed this man not guilty
But we screamed for crucifixion with hearts so filthy
Would you kneel in the garden, but scared for your life
To please the Father, pay any price
Could you heal a man who did you harm
And a hand to the sword, could you stay that arm
As you were paraded with mockery and shame
Could you accept God's will and why you came
Could you refrain from the desire to hate
Could you forgive them because you knew their fate
With the essence of life dripping off your toes
While dice throws chose who would get your robes
To the Father, " It is finished", your final gasp
Could you be faithful and drink the cup of wrath? |
| CCW SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNER | My Friend, There's Someone I'd Like You To Meet – By: Lenn Snider
Early
on, I saw him from afar. He was ordinary and plain, dressed poorly in
dirty clothing. Yet, he carried himself with a certain dignity. I moved
on and forgot about him......
Until miles later when I met him in
passing. “Dirty feet,” I thought. “Oily hair. Calloused, grubby hands.
Still dresses shabbily. Bad haircut and doesn't shave.” Yet, he looked
confident as he spoke to the people he met. I don't think he noticed me
as I passed with only a glance, saying nothing. No-one to bother
with.....
Until time flew, and the years became heavy, and I
found myself wandering into the back alley of my life. Losing myself.
Confused by myself. Stumbling in despair amidst garbage, and wreckage.
Holes in my worn-out walking shoes. Walking on cold, wet, well-traveled
dirt, the way ever-narrowing between breath-stifling walls. Suddenly I
slipped. I felt myself falling and sliding down the steep-sided pit of
what must have been an old storm sewer. After I landed, I sat and wept.
There was no way out. It was getting hotter. Darker. I sat in the hot,
sulfurous muck and wept. The muck was rising.
Fear gripped my throat. "Helllllp. Is anybody there? Does anybody hear me?"
"I'm here. I hear you. Be still and all will be well." A candle was lit behind me, illuminating a face.
"It....It's you......"
"It
is I. Always have been me,” he said, grinning. " Don't you remember
how, early on, I waved at you from a distance, but you didn't want to
see? Later we met in passing and I smiled, but you didn't speak. Many
times I walked behind you, beside you, and before you, but you avoided,
sidestepped, ignored, looked past, seemingly blind, deaf, and dumb.
Well, don't feel bad. I get that a lot. It happens to lots of folks.
You'd be surprised how many I've met for the first time in a pit like
this one. Why you deprive yourselves for so long kind of mystifies me.
It's a cryin' shame and such a waste of good time, don't you think?"
" I......I......sorry.....," I looked away, embarrassed. "Umm, I don't mean to interrupt, but this stinky stuff is rising......"
He
was holding a strong stick with which he began poking and pounding a
hole in the bottom of the filthy pit as he spoke some foreign-sounding
words. After awhile the muck began to drain out.
"Thanks. How did you do that?"
"It's not so hard if you know how to speak to it."
I
began to notice that he was clean, in spite of the surrounding filth. I
was the smelly, dirty, oily, grubby, and shabby one. It was, indeed, a
crying shame.
“Let's get you outa here,...... that is, unless you'd rather stay.”
“Nooo!”
I cried desperately, “This is horrible! I want out! But......but......I
don't see any way out! There's no way ouuuut!” It was like hearing
someone who's going hysterical, only it was my own panicked voice. I
waited for the counteracting slap in the face that always came in the
old movies.......
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