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TITLE: There are rules in this school, young lady! | Previous Challenge Entry
By Gloria Pierre Dean
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If you do not obey, you will be disciplined.
Raise your hand to ask or answer a question. No chatting allowed!”.
These words resounded in Harriet’s young mind.
It was the unwritten motto of the school and its strict teachers.
Their firm loud voices and unsmiling faces made her unhappy.
Her young heart cried daily “I want to go home to be with Mummy”
She missed her quiet-spoken, kind mother whenever she was at school.
Her hardworking strict daddy drove her to school each day.
His words tended to be “ all good children must go to school so they can learn, have a good life, read and learn lots of books and read the Bible. You must obey your teachers and remember, disobedience is not allowed’ was always his ending phrase.
“Yes, daddy” she would say quietly as she got out and walked with trembling legs into St Dominic’s Primary school.
She developed an inner motto, which was ‘No talking allowed!’
And she so disliked the noisy loud times in the playground.
At least the children were quiet in the classes. The strict schoolmaster Mr. Ben saw to that.
She was studious and studied hard, did her homework, and made progress. By the time, she entered high school, she had acquired two close girlfriends who were quiet like she was. They made each other smile.
In high school, she fitted in very well to the nuns’ strict rules.
She had been well taught. Along with her discovered singing voice and her ability to write good essays, she made good friends, played netball, and felt inner confidence. Her parents allowed her to join the choir; oh what joy!
Deep down, she remained the quiet thinking girl that she was trained to be.
When she moved from her rural home, she learned that in the cities of Western society, quietness is rarely venerated. Loud and fast air and road traffic, loud voices in the media and on the streets, stressful jobs, and some hostile coworkers were negatives to her. Maybe, she was too passive and introverted.
As she grew older and became a career person, she had to speak up and she did. Her teaching career required speaking aloud. However, Harriet still valued quiet times spent alone, on long walks in the park, or time with Jesus in His Word and in quiet times of worship, and she loved to go to church worship with others...
The example was set for us by Jesus. He was the greatest teacher and he did so aloud to His disciples and to the people who followed Him as he traveled during those 3 years of ministry. He also spent time alone and quietly.
Hebrews 5:7 “In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence”.
James wrote “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed”.{James 5:16}.
He also advocates praying out loud.
There is a time for being quiet and a time for being ‘aloud’.
What Harriet learned as a young child helped her to learn self-control and discipline but she also had to speak out at times in order to be an adult in an adult world.
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Thanks for sharing. Blessings
I can feel your passion. I see you doing something I did in my early writing days. I had so much to say and tried to cram it all in one piece. My writing became more focused and I was able to show instead of telling after reading Bring Your Writing to Life by Amy Wiley. It's offered free to gold and platinum members, but you need to contact FW and ask for it. It's an excellent study guide and I look forward to reading more.