FAITH
SCARY,
Then Not So Scary
By Family and Faith Magazine Child Writer,
Nia-Ashley Harris
Women’s Resource &
Outreach Centre
O
NE NIGHT, MY FAMILY WAS AT HOME. We were
watching television. Suddenly, we heard constant
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gunshots. My mother told my sister Zoe and I to lie
down on the floor so if gunshots came in the house we would
be on the ground and the bullets couldn’t hurt us. My sister
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and I were very scared, but our parents seemed calm and
protective. That was so unusual to me.
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Anyway, while we were lying down on the ground, daddy
turned off all the lights, so that the person who was shooting
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the gun wouldn’t see us. I was glad my youngest sister, Sarah
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was sleeping because she would have made too much
noise and the gunman might hear her. When daddy came
back from turning off all the lights, I started to pray. I asked
the Lord to stop the person who ݅́͡