#555 Speaking in Tongues- ZZ Packer
Tia was a religious girl. She lived with her aunt and played
the clarinet. She and her friend Marcelle were the only girls at Rutherford B.
Hayes High School to be “Saved,” but she didn’t feel the spirit. She couldn’t
speak in tongues like the others at her church, and she didn’t want to pretend.
She wanted to really feel the Lord’s presence.
“You could only truly speak in tongues when all worldly
matters were emptied from your mind, or else there was no room for God. To do
that, you had to be thinking about him, praising him, or singing to him. She
had tried at home, but nothing worked.”
She felt lost and abandoned. She decided to run away from
home and look for her mother in Atlanta. She was on a quest not only to find
her mother, but to find salvation, faith, and truth. What she found was a city
too big for a fourteen-year old girl toting around a clarinet case with only a
few dollars in her pocket. She fell in with a drug dealer and a prostitute. She
narrowly missed irreparable damage and while not finding the things she set out
to find, she may have found more valuable truths about life.
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