University:
Boston University
Course:
CAS WR 153 | Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Creativity/Innovation
Academic year:

2024
Views:

200

Pages:

1
Author:

Kevin Riddle

"Lot' s Wife" Ьу Кristine Batey WЬile Lot, the conscience of а nation, struggles with the Lord, she struggles with the housework. The City of Sin is where she raises the children. Ba'al or Adonaiwhoever is God ·the bread must still Ье made - _and the door sill swept. The Lord тау kill the children tomorrow, but today they must Ье gathered and fed. Well and good to condemn your neighbors' religion: but weren't they there when the ЬаЬу was Ьощ and when the well collapsed? While her husband communes with God she tucks the children into bed. In the moming, when he tells her of the judgment, she puts down the lamp she is cleaning and calmly begins to pack. In between bundling up the children and deciding what will go, she runs for а moment to say goodbye to the herd, gently patting each soft head with tears in her eyes for the animals that will not understand. She smiles Ыindly to the woman who held her hand at childbed. It is easy for eyes that have always tumed to heaven not to look back; those that have been - Ьу necessity - drawn to earth cannot forget that life is lived from day to day. Good, to а God, and good in human terms are two different things. On the breast of the hill, she chooses to Ье human, and tums, in farewell and never regrets the sacrifice.