Mum: Boy you are looking beautiful. I thought you were supposed to look handsome.

Boy: Mum, what are you talking about?

Mum: The earrings. They are making you look beautiful boy.

Boy: Mum, I am a boy. I am handsome.

Mum: That is what I thought too. But you are looking beautiful now. Go check in the mirror.

Boy: Mum, stop being sarcastic. I am a boy. I am handsome. Yes, those earrings are fly but I am still handsome.

Mum: No no no…. boy. Let me ask you a question. Since you are my son, should you hear that mommy has given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and you come to the hospital to see me and the kids, how would you differentiate between them since they are all wrapped up in linen? Would you be able to make their sexes out by just looking at them?

Boy: Errrmmm…they are identical?

Mum: Yes, they are identical twins. In fact, like real look alike. But they are of different sex. How would you be able to make them out?

Boy: I wouldn’t, unless they grow probably. Or?

Mum: No baby. There is a way you can make them out easily.

Boy: How?

Mum: Since they are of the opposite sex, the nurses will identify them by their genitals, and then put an earring on the baby with a pussy. The one without a pussy won’t get any earring. Am I right?

Boy: Yes. Yes… I didn’t think about that.

Mum: Yes, so the one with the pussy is the sissy. And it is the sissy who gets an earring. Do you have a pussy?

Boy: Mum???

Mum: I am just asking. Are you a sissy?

Boy: I am not mum?

Mum: Then why do you have an earring on? It is even one. Have you lost the other sissy?

Boy: Stop it mum. I am a boy.

Mum: You don’t look like it boy. Or, like the nurse, are you going to let the world identify you by dangling your genitals around?

Boy: Mum, you are embarrassing me.

Mum: There you go again with all your feelings sissy. A boy man’s up and listen to wisdom. You see that now that you have earrings on, you are getting into your feelings? Should you have come and the twin boy was the one wearing the earrings, while the twin girl had no hole in her ear lobe, what would you have said? Wouldn’t you have felt that it was odd?

Boy: Maybe…

Mum: So if from birth, without any foolish download into the brain, we know the right thing to do, don’t you think that if you should do anything outside of nature, you may be losing it, oh foolish Galatian?

Boy: Mum?

Mum: Boy, listen, the devil is the god of this world. He operates through the air. He pours his nonsense into the air, and we call it air-borne, trend, fashion, etc, and they spread faster. And look at the irony here; he comes to bait you with something that seem little but fancy like the apple in the garden. He tells you, “Wouldn’t it look fly to wear an earring? In fact, all the big boys are wearing one. You should too.” And then you try it. I wouldn’t have been bothered if it was something temporal. But he causes you to give yourself a permanent hole in your earring lobe which you would have to explain to your children and your grandchildren. They would ask, “Daddy, did you come to earth with a hole in your ear lobe?” then you would know how stupid you have been. The same with tattoos. We often do tattoos because of how we feel at the moment. But look at something, if the tattoos could leave us as soon as those feelings have run their course, it wouldn’t have been a problem. But those tattoos stay even after their accompanying feelings are gone. And the stupid thing is when you want to get rid of them, they are more painful and expensive than when you had them. Don’t you think the devil is playing a trick on you? Do you think God has tattoos and piercing? You may think I am being too dramatic here, but think about it, do you think, should God appear to you, which I know you desire greatly he would be having tattoos and piercing all over? Do you?

Boy: No mum…

Mum: So why should you? Aren’t you his image? Weren’t you created in his image? So why don’t you give him glory by being a reflection of who he is, and not what the devil is telling you through trends and fashion? We often blame Eve for eating the apple, and causing all these pain in the world, but here we are doing the same thing. The devil wouldn’t tempt you with the real face of evil. He will tempt you with a succulent ‘wisdom apple’, so that you would reason with it (battle of the thoughts/mind), then think yourself to be wiser than God, and then choose the devil’s way instead of sticking with God’s way.  Mind you, the devil’s way leads out of the Garden of Eden. Do you want to live out of the Garden of Eden?

Boy: No mum…

Mum: Do you want the devil to be your new caretaker?

Boy: No mum

Mum: Then don’t do things that people who belong to him do. The devil belongs to this world, and his end is hell. When he is enticing you, he entices you with things of this earth, so that you get hook. Should you get hooked, know that he is preparing you for his future, hell. (A life lived without Christ, would spend eternity without Him as well. Hence, hell).

Boy: You’re making me feel bad mum

Mum: So now that you FEEL bad, is there any ornament which you would use to decorate yourself, clay man?

Boy: Come on mum. You bad.

Mum: What are you going to do now?

Boy: Get rid of the earrings…

Mum: And?

Boy: And what? I did only earrings. What else?

Mum: And you are not going to do any tattoos no matter how much you are tempted, remember that according to the book of James 1: 13-15 whenever you say, “I feel tempted” it means that there is an evil desire in you which is being triggered. God made you handsome, keep it that way. Trying to get more unnaturally is like trying to be the devil who wanted to get more, the throne of God, unnaturally. And what happened to him?

Boy: He was cast down

Mum: And?

Boy: He lost everything including his glory has an archangel.

Mum: Good boy. You know your Bible too well.

[Boy smiles, and removes earrings]

Mum: That is my boy.

Boy: What are we going to do about the hole in my ears now mum?

Mum: I guess that is going to be your testimony like Apostle Paul. Because of what he did before, he told the people, I was the chief of sinners saved by God. So, any gang star, or any innocent boy who sees the hole inyour ears will know that “you have been there before.” And if you are not there now, and you life is going on beautiful, they will desire to be like you. Thus, you become their living epistle. Halleluyah!

Boy: Yeah right. You know how to preach through any sarcasm.

Mum: But don’t get into your feelings though. You are bigger than that hole. So live your life as if it never existed, until it matters.

Boy: Okay mum.

Mum: You welcome beautiful boy.

Boy: I have removed them now mum.

Mum: Just kidding. Hahhahha… just wanted to punch you for the last.

Boy: Ouch! How about that?

Mum: Is that sarcasm? Hahahhahahhahhaha…. I love you my boy.

Boy: I love you too mum. Thank you for the teachings.

Mum: Just pay your school fees and I will be fine.

Boy: Yeah right.

THE END.