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Topic: Illustrate the meaning of "Actions Speak Louder than Words" (without using the actual phrase). (02/21/08)
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TITLE: Disappointment | Previous Challenge Entry
By Bill Obenauer
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She couldn’t believe it. Granted she had taken three tests at home and they had all come out positive, but she still almost fell to the ground when the doctor told her the news. How could this have happened? She was always careful. She had gone to the clinic and been put on the pill months ago. It just didn’t make sense.
Her brakes squealed as she pulled into her driveway. She knew that she needed to have them looked at, but she didn’t have the money right now. Jess would have asked her mom for the money, but now she was just hoping not to get kicked out when she told her mother that she was going to have a baby.
Jess gently opened the front door, hoping that no one would notice her. She took a deep breath, smelling the strong odor of fresh cigarette smoke and knew that her mother was home. Quietly, she tiptoed into the house and shut the door.
As she walked up the stairs to her room, her mother’s words sounded over and over again in her head, “No sex is safe sex. Safe sex is no sex.” Her mother must have said those words to her a thousand times.
Jess sat down on her bed and opened her nightstand. She slowly dug through the stack of spiritual books that her mother had given her over the years. Finally, she pulled out a book called "True Love Waits." She opened the book to the title page where the inscription read, “For Jess, On your fourteenth birthday. Because your wedding night should be a memory that lasts a lifetime. Love, Mom.” Her eyes ran over that purple ink until they flooded with tears, blurring the words. Each time she read it she felt ten times worse.
Jess remembered the day her mother had given her that book like it was yesterday. She had woken her up early in the morning to wish her a happy birthday and said, “Jess, now that you’re becoming a woman, there’s something that we need to talk about. Your body is changing,” her mother had told her, “but it’s important that your morals don’t. Sometimes you are going to feel like you have to do things, and you may even think that you want to, but if your heart is tugging at you not to, you need to listen.”
That had only been the beginning of the conversation. Her mother had spoken to her for an hour that day about what boys were like in high school and how she didn’t want her first time to be in the back seat of some dirty car at some place that everyone called Make Out Mountain. Jess remembered giving her mother a big hug that morning and saying, “I promise not to disappoint you Mom.”
Some promise. Not only was her mother going to learn that Jess had been having sex, but her mother was about to find out that she was going to be a grandmother. “Maybe I should just have an abortion before anyone finds out,” Jess thought to herself. Then she realized that while that would keep her mother from knowing anything, she would be living a life of sin to cover up one sin. How could she do that and continue to grow in her relationship with God?
It was time to face the truth. Jess walked down the hall to her mother’s room. She grabbed the doorknob and started to twist. Then she stopped. She knocked instead. Her mother’s boyfriend hated when she barged in.
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And then the punch in the gut at the end. Love it. Awesome twist. Very creative.
It's true, we lead by example.
A very well written story on an important topic for today.
God Bless