Shirley KalpinOlson
Summary of Kaylee’s Young Life Kaylee is a lovely, smart, talented and strong-willed child, but she had one flaw, she was extremely fearful of snakes. When two snakes invaded her yard, she came running to Granny with eyes widened. Seeing the fear on Kaylee’s face, Granny, checked and sure enough, two long black-spotted snakes coiled-up on the steps. Granny became a snake twirler that very day as she received strength from God, allowing her to grab each snake by their tails, one snake at a time wiggling and hissing at her, twirling each around and around and around, as she chanted, 'one and two and three. You are not going to tempt or harm my Kaylee.' At 3, she threw the snakes, and they went far, far away from Kaylee. Kaylee’s curiosity about why snakes were so feared, hated, slimy and ugly brought about the story in the Bible in Genesis, how the world came to be and how one snake caused Adam and Eve, God’s first humans, to disobey God, thus first sin to enter God’s beautiful Creation. God was so disappointed He punished Adam and Eve by removing them from their beautiful garden paradise and they were to labor until they die. He cursed all Snake to be separated, feared and also forced to crawl on their bellies their entire life. That is why they became ugly, feared and hated As quoted In Genesis.
