Joshua

 What is your favorite work of art? What do you love about it?

Joshua stepped up to the edge of the outcrop and watched the armies collide below him.

"This is it," he thought to himself. "This is perfect."

He reached a hand up to the sky and yelled out a prayer, "O Lord, I beseech you! May You halt the sun in the sky so that I might fight in the daylight!"

The Lord looked upon the lighting of the scene, and saw that it was good. The sun stopped in the sky above Gideon.

"Oh yes," thought Joshua. "This will make a magnificent painting."

(written 2021 January 5)

("Joshua Commanding the Sun To Stand Still Upon Gideon", John Martin, 1816)