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- Bible timesMy grandmother keeps her Bible on a shelf beside her bed. When the day is over, she reads quietly to herself, and in the morning she'll tell us the stories, how Noah listened to God’s word pulled two of each animal inside his ark, waited for the rains to come and floated safely as the sinners drowned. It’s morning now and we have floated safely through the Nicholtown night, our evening prayers Jehovah, please give us another day, now answered. Biscuits warm and buttered stop halfway to our mouths. How much rain did it take to destroy the sinners? What lies did they tell to die such a death? How loud was the rain when it came? How did Noah know that the cobra wouldn’t bite, the bull wouldn’t charge, the bee wouldn’t sting? Our questions come fast but we want the stories more than we want the answers so when my grandmother says, Hush, so I can tell it! We do. Jacob's dream of a ladder to heaven, and Jesus with the children surrounding him. Moseson the mountain, fire burning words into stone. Even Salome intrigues us, her wish for a man’s head on a platter—who could want this and live to tell the story of that wanting? Autumn is coming. Outside, there’s the sound of wind through the pine trees. But inside there are stories, there are biscuits and grits and eggs, the fire in the potbellied stove already filling the house with warmth. Still we shiver at the thought of evil Salome, chew our biscuits slowly. We are safe here—miles and years away from Bible Times.
- “Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done.”
- I choose this one because it remined me of my farther. My farther is the most religious out of all my family and he would always be in his room at night reading and praying and would pray before eating as well to help he would go to church every Friday and Sunday. After a few weeks he made me and the rest of my family join going to church and praying before eating and before sleeping as a way to show appreciation towards god and to worship him. I was never really big on stuff like that and still am not but regardless my farther still tells us about the stories he hears. He also summaries a few parts of what he reads in the bible so seeing Jacqueline mom being like that just reminds me of my farther telling me the stories and his own beliefs.
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