The Song Maker

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Oct 18, 2022 · 6m

Thick and impenetrable silence hung over the village. For as long as the villagers could remember, no one had spoken a word, not even a whisper. A command from an enemy kingdom forbade anyone in the village from uttering a sound. While many villagers had grown accustomed to the forced silence, one girl increasingly found the muteness of the village unsettling. Fadiya could not understand how sound could be wrong when the warbling songs of birds filled the air and the leaves of the forest whispered in the breeze. The silence was all she had known in the village, but Fadiya felt like a prisoner…