Early morning, Mist was hesitating to leave the surroundings. From inside the nearby house big clapping, shouting, throat breaking prayers, without order, a total pandemonium could be heard. All the hens and chickens found their shelter somewhere around in bushes hearing the pandemonium and thunder prayer. Doves enjoyed the morning rays on the roof frightened and fluttered in extreme fear. Two stray dogs that were sleeping in front of the gate of the house shuddered, stood up and shot like arrow hearing prayer and pandemonium.
After a few minutes, everything came to the normal state, not only the house but also the households. Normal life began. Utensils in kitchen clashed, bathroom was opened and the sound of the shower could be heard. A small boy came to sit-out with his books. He began to read. It was the science lesson that he began to read. He had to learn from it to answer the question his Miss was to ask him on that day.
He read loudly “Our planet earth is round and moving around the sun in an elliptical orbit.”
His father, hearing this, came running to sit-out and asked: “Who told you that the earth is round?”
The boy replied, “Our Miss who taught us this lesson.”
Father took his spanking stick and gave him two spanks on his bum then said “No, look earth is flat. Have you heard me preaching like that? I have been reading scripture for many years. I have never seen such things in scriptures, nonsense.”
“OK. That might be true.” The boy thought, he closed his books as it was time to leave to school. He changed dress and came to the gate where his friends had been waiting for him.
As soon as the friends saw him, they asked a question “Why the doves fly away when you pray in your home”?
The boy answered, “When we pray spirit come down in the form of doves, dad has told me so.”
“But this is not coming down to your home, going away from your roof.” Boys corrected him.
“Oh, that’s… that’s… because the spirit is spreading from our house to surroundings when we pray.”
Boys said “Truly, you are your dad’s son. You will become a great preacher in the future. But the neighbors say it is common sense that flies away from your house.”
They were walking to school while they were speaking so. They reached their school. After a few minutes, the bell rang as usual and everyone got into their classes. After prayer class was started.
Class Miss asked the boy “what is the shape of our earth?”
The boy stood up and answered, “It is flat, Miss.”
The teacher took her spanking stick and gave him two spanks on his bum “No, I taught you yesterday, it is round. Don’t forget I will ask you again tomorrow. Go home and read the lesson well.”
The boy went home after school. Next morning he took his book and began to read. “Our planet earth is round……………..”
Suddenly two spanks fell on his bum. It was his dad “I told you yesterday. Don’t utter nonsense. It’s flat.”
He closed his book, changed dress, and went to school. His teacher asked “Have you studied? How is the earth?”
The boy answered, “In the same shape flat, no change.”
That day the numbers of spankings were three. The teacher warned “It’s round. Don’t forget.”
Next day morning after ritual pandemonium, the boy opened his book and began “Our earth…………” he looked at his dad. Dad was standing there with the spanking stick. He suddenly closed his book. And he became ready to go to school. He kept silent and spoke nothing. He went to school. The class starteThe teacher
her came to him and asked “How is our earth?”
He answered “Miss your earth is round and my dad’s is flat”.
Teacher transfixed, boy continued “No problem, let it be round in school, but, please I cannot take it to home as round. It’s flat there in dad’s scripture. Nobody can make it round there. Whether it is round or flat, please free my bum.”
From back bench the boy heard something like glass breaking. He turned back to see what was that. That was his friends’ giggling. One of them stood up and said.
“His and his dad’s faith and commonsense are like pesticide and insects. Where their faith presents, there the commonsense dies or flies away.”
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