Article January 1, 2003 Issue

Crazy quilt

By Gwendolyn Joy Forest,—USA

Mrs. Green sighed. It wasn't because she didn't like the first day of school. She did. But oh, there were so many children in her classroom this year! More than she could ever remember. So many children — she wondered how she would be able to help them all.

A big boy came in, and when she said, “Hello,” he said, “Ah-Salaam Aliakim.” Mrs. Green didn't know what that meant, but it sounded like “hello” back, only in a different language. There were students who spoke different languages at home and English at school. Again, Mrs. Green sighed. Would she ever learn about each child?

When Mrs. Green went home that night, she just wanted to have some supper and go to bed. But she couldn't sleep. She knew she needed to take all her sighs to God before she faced another day. The first sentence in a prayer Jesus gave to his students kept repeating itself in her thoughts: “Our Father which art in heaven.”

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