Home > Work > What a Godly Privilege to Be Born a Man

What a Godly Privilege to Be Born a Man QUOTES

What a Godly Privilege to Be Born a Man QUOTES

1 " Like the good spirit, ready to convict us, knowing is looking right at us, waiting for our inner space to surrender ourselves to the need of it,” the young lady said. “Knowing things outside of the things we are allowed to live is possible. We just need to be aware about the possibility of ‘What if?’ It is that simple. But if we judge others based on the fact that what happened to them hasn’t happened to us, we allow ourselves to know only one thing. And that is to not know anything. And then our state of consciousness is only aware of one thing.

“And that is the life we live. We go about our ways with eyes that bypass the hurt that underlies the physical tears others walk with, yet we still feel the need to mention the absence of our tears to prove their sinful manner of living. Our minds become the ears and the eyes with which we judge what we should know differently. This is according to our rationalized state of consciousness. We simply overlook the suffering of others because we ourselves suffer as well from the lack of knowing it. That part I get it. When your sister buries her dear child, please mourn from the heart. You don’t have to bury someone to know death is painful. In fact, he should never be anyone’s eye, let alone you. "

― Tabitha Biel Luak , What a Godly Privilege to Be Born a Man

2 " Nyayang has received some warnings from a few family members telling her who to avoid. Chuol has talked to her about how he wants her to be. There is nothing desirable about a woman who gets easily wound up in a crowd of women, simply for being part of the same community. When Chuol’s mother comes to her and speaks these scenarios in her ears again, it gets Nyayang thinking.

“These are bad women. They have no respect for their husbands. Whose wife could leave her house, come in between compounds and brazenly open her mouth and say things that only an elephant could swallow? These women are misleaders. They don’t like seeing young women like you staying in their marriages, because in many ways, they are not really in one. They are just misleaders.” She says this to her daughter-in-law in a way that it seems as if she is not really talking to her, but the fact that there is not any other wife in the compound narrows it down to Nyayang that she is speaking to her.

Nyayang looks around. She doesn’t know anything about what she is talking about. Women get into fights all the time. Sometimes it is about their children, other times it is about their husbands. There is no connection, Nyayang thinks. But she is not supposed to say anything and so she says nothing. But the mother-in-law knows what she is talking about, she just came back from separating some women. She knows what she is talking about. But, even if she knows, is there any reason to talk about these lost souls who have often had the misfortune of being on the wrong side of other women? That is all they know. Blaming each other. "

― Tabitha Biel Luak , What a Godly Privilege to Be Born a Man

3 " It is quiet in this part of the neighbourhood. Everyone is at ease. The elders are overjoyed; they made a lot of cows today. It could be a lasting peace. The man who made it all possible is probably not in bed yet or maybe has not yet come home at all. But at least his wives seem to be taking the evening off from fighting. Nyayang gets up and walks to the gate. Chuol sees this and says, “What business do you have at the gate at this time of the night?” Nyayang walks back to the compound quietly. Chuol rises from his chair. He goes to the gate and sticks out his head. Four men and a girl pass the gate. To someone else it might appear that the girl has been arrested, but the one who witnesses their passing knows something else is happening. "

― Tabitha Biel Luak , What a Godly Privilege to Be Born a Man