August - September Writer's Challenge

Use the passage from Mark 7:24-30 (also found in Matthew 15:21-28) about the faith of the Syrophonecian Woman, as the basis for your writing. Any format.


The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith
And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. And he said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs." But she answered him, "Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs." And he said to her, "For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter." And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.
~ Mark 7:24-30

Round Robin Example

Somewhere a meadow bird sings a song of glory and praise.

"The Lord of Lords shall walk my way."

He will light up my path and I will lean on Him.

I can count on Jesus to be with me and guide me through all things.

The Lord, inconceivably abstract, becomes tangible in the world around me, and I walk with Him, holding His hand and hearing His songs.

A Round Robin Exercise

For a Round Robin each participant begins with a paper on which they write one sentence.

Pass the paper to the next person.

The second person will write the next sentence.
They fold down the paper so only the second sentence shows.

Pass the paper to the next person.

When the third person has written their sentence they fold down the paper so only the third sentence shows, and then pass it on.

Continue passing the papers round until they come back to their originators. The author of the first sentence then opens the paper and reads the resulting "story."