This dissertation is a piece of creative writing in fulfilment of the Final Major Project for BA (Hons) Creative Writing.
“Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.” – 1 Timothy 2:11-15
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who have it and those who don’t. The black sheep and the white sheep. Or, as Pastor Paul Miller once said, ‘the Blessed and the Cursed’.
When I was a little girl, five or so, my parents used to take me to the Miller’s church all the time. Dad would slip into devoted prayer as if his soul rested upon it; Mom pretended to care. I’d sit on the pews swinging my size-five feet focusing on everything but Paul’s voice. Sometimes my eyes played hide and seek between the pews compiling enough sights to make a rainbow. Red stained glass, orange flames in altar candles. Yellow in the hair of Paul’s daughter, Everleigh, who always sat in the front row.
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