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Where's Your Faith?


Ashlie Duggan had captained the cheerleading team, excelled as a pitcher on the high school softball team and all through senior year had maintained her 4.00 average.
All the same her mother, Harriet, worried about her.
Ashlie was almost too pretty, too smart, too popular.
But senior year had been so full that Harriet now wondered if her daughter had been stretched so far that perhaps even her grades had been sustained more on academic reputation than scholastic performance for the teachers liked her as much as her fellow students.  And how, for instance, had she done on the scholarship test at State last month?  With Ashlie's father gone, that test would be critical to her getting the necessary assistance to attend college in the fall.                                                                                                                                                                                              Through it all, Ashlie had bolstered her mother's worrisome spirits by asking her the simple question:
Where's your faith, Mom?
Sometimes Harriet asked the same thing of herself.
Now the two kept busy, Ashlie at homework and her mother at housework, on this rare free afternoon together.
Harriet noticed that Ashlie seemed to shoot frequent glances at the front door.  Finally, there was a shuffling in the mailbox and the letters fell through the door slot.
Ashlie hastened to pick them up, located a manila one larger than the others and opened it hurriedly.
She smiled, proudly, walked over to her mother and showed her the document from inside.
Harriet's face lit up.  Her daughter, Ashlie Duggan, had scored a near-perfect test grade.  Not only had she been accepted at State but hers would be a full-ride scholarship.
Harriet looked up, large tears welling up in her hazel eyes.
All Ashlie could say was:  "Where's your faith, Mom?"
All Harriet could say was:  "Right here.  You're my faith, baby, and I thank God for you everyday."

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        • A Letter From Your Secretary
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        • A Woman's Pride
        • Aliens or Angels?
        • Alpha Beta Traitor
        • Amy And Amy And
        • Are You Telling Me?
        • Baby Blue Sunbeam
        • Ballpark Hero
        • Barn Quilts
        • Beautiful with Braces
        • Because it Still Rains
        • Bend
        • Better
        • Better Yet
        • The Big Yellow Elopement Machine
        • Blind Date
        • Brother
        • Cadmium Gold
        • Calico Charms
        • Caramels
        • Carrie Me Back
        • Cat in the Corner Chair
        • CATCH from 13 Stories
        • Cat's Eyes
        • The Cherry Spot
        • The Closer Wins a Steak
        • Cloud
        • Coffee Shop HEARTS 2
        • Company
        • Confessional
        • Confetti
        • Cover!
        • Cover Art Gallery
        • The Dad Who Was 24-Feet Tall
        • The Day the Avanti Didn't Start
        • Days of Christmas
        • The Devil Sells His Soul
        • Double Sugar
        • The Ebullience of Being Elaina Brightman
        • Escape
        • Everybody's Teddy
        • Fall of Winter
        • Fatal Flaws
        • Final Final: The Last Newspaper
        • Forgiveness Day
        • The Girl as Good as Mozart
        • The Girl Who Never Was
        • Girl With Backpack
        • Grand Lady
        • Guardian
        • Hard-Boiled, Soft-Headed
        • The Heart of an Unknown Soldier
        • Help Wanted, Hope Needed
        • Hurt
        • I Am Afraid of My Feelings
        • I Don't Care if I Ever Come Back
        • I Will Be Leaving
        • I Wonder Where He is Now
        • In the Throes of Coca Coma
        • Jailhouse Judy
        • Jigsaw
        • Kansas City
        • The Kid Goes 0 for April
        • KISS
        • Kiss Me, Kate-Lynn
        • klick-klock
        • The Last Elevator Girl
        • Lawyer Vs. Rodeo Rider
        • Library Doors
        • Lighthouses
        • Loft in Space
        • Lookalike
        • Love Nothing Novel
        • The Lunacy and the Lace
        • Man in the Big Pajamas
        • Mermaid
        • Morning Jog
        • Mr. In-Between
        • My Brother's Science Project
        • A Nice Quiet Space
        • Nine
        • Not Fields Afar
        • The Note
        • On Briarwood Roof
        • One-Two Punch//Delivered
        • One Way Ticket
        • Out of Limelight
        • Parallel You
        • The Passenger
        • Perfect
        • Physical
        • Pitch Count
        • Polaroid Manipulations
        • Portrait of Genevieve
        • Pretty Dresses, Petty Thieves
        • Pretty, Ugly
        • Proposal
        • PurgaStories
        • Red Chair to Mars
        • Reentry
        • Return to Fine Arts
        • The Ride of a Lifetime
        • Run-Run Runaway Caboose
        • Saturday
        • Secret Game Workshop
        • Shadows
        • Signals
        • Slideshow
        • Slugger
        • The Small of Her Back
        • Southpaws
        • Spelling Bee
        • Spring of Summer
        • Starry Night
        • Stewart Survives the 7th
        • Stuntgirl
        • Stopover
        • The Stowaway
        • The Super Secret Planet Finder
        • Tail of the Lake Monster
        • Team Bus
        • Tow Me
        • Turret
        • Telephone
        • Usherette
        • Varsity
        • Veranda Nights
        • Wicked Curves
        • We
        • Where's Your Faith?
        • You
        • You Kill Me
      • .005 >
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      • Moon Over November
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  • Scenes of a GT Hawk
  • Hole in One
  • First Date
  • Wanna Bet?
  • The Not-So-Lonely Cabbie
  • The Big Fight
  • A Parable of the High Seas
  • Lonely Girl
  • Mr. Almost