Getting Into Trouble

I got into trouble all the time. My father was the assistant pastor of Harmon Street. I guess everyone expected me to be this little angel. It wasn't that I was bad, but I refused to sit and be the church's picture of "AN ANGEL." I was a normal child. I was subject to talk in SUnday School, choir rehearsal, and even church. I did it in regular school. I was a normal child and I did normal things. The person who understood this the best was my Sunday School teacher when I was nine, Sis. Natalie Hammond. I think she was a preacher's kid herself. I never asked her. SHe just told me to be quiet. She never threatened to tell my parents. She was cool like that. My mother and father never fussed at me much for getting into trouble at church. They just told me not to cut up too much. The person I got into trouble with the most was Sis. Amelia Crawford. SHe was the president of the youth choir. We clashed from the minute she made me the main musician of the choir. Sis. Crawford acted, treated, and yelled at us like we were adults. Most of us were just kids who were made to get into the youth choir by our parents. LaDawnya wasn't. She was serious about singing. She enjoyed the way Sis. Crawford treated us. LaDawnya never played around in choir rehearsal. She would laugh from time to time, but she was never the cause of the trouble. I don't think that girl ever got into trouble. She was a little too good for my taste, but that's jsut me. (I am not talking about her. She knows I feel like this because i have told her on several occassions.) Back to my story. Sis. Crawford was too serious with us. I often, with my outspoken self, told her that too. I don't think she minded so much as long as I was respectful. Most of the times I voiced my opinion in a respectful manner. THere were a few times, I wasn't respectful. One time, I got so mad at Sis. Crawford that I walked out of rehearsal and didn't come back for 3 weeks. She didn't go to my parents and say a wrod to them. When I came back to the choir and tried to sit on the organ, she politely told me to get up off the organ. She then told me that I had to earn my spot back as the main musician. It took a month. My mother went to Sis. Crawford and asked her why I wasn't playing. Sis. Crawford told my mother that she would have to discuss it with me. I won't tell Sis. Crawford this, but she was a cool lady. Sis. Crawford was always hard on LaDawnya, this guy named Arthur Craven, and I. Sis. Crawford always told us, "You all have too much potential for me to treat you all like you are children. You all need to develop your talents and use them for the Lord. I would put you all up against the best adults in the world." Sis. Crawford was cool like that. SHe was always getting LaDawnya, Arthur, and me in come kind of workshop, contest, and talent show. She believed in us. Back to getting into trouble... I wasn't bad. I just did normal kid stuff, but it got blown out of proportion.