Church Folks, Flies And Ants

So pray if you come neare to any port where shipping comes hither indenture produce and send me [servants]….lett them be of any sort men women or boys… what I shall not make use off and are not serviceable for mee I can exchange with others especially any sort of tradesmen…”

In the short story, “The Moths”, the narrator, a fourteen year old girl, assumes the responsibility of taking care of her cancerous and dying Abuelita. Her Abuelita is the only person who understands the narrator and the only person she feels she can turn to. After having followed man’s rules for so many years, Abuelita passes away. All the moths that lived inside her are freed and the narrator learns some life lessons. Helena Maria Viramontes uses symbolism and setting to illustrate the oppression of women in “The Moths.”

There are many ways to interpret this but I think the title is referring to a way of living. Haileab has always taught his children to accept people no matter what their situation is. Because of this many people have came into their lives and significantly made a difference on the way they view certain subjects in american culture.

"Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiter in New York - every Monday there same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” (P.43)

The book of Genesis records the creation of the world and everything in it, as well the early relationship between God and humanity. God creates man, Adam, “from the dust of the ground” (Genesis 2:7) and places him in a paradise on Earth called the garden of Eden, where he also places the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From the man, God creates a woman and tells them that they “may freely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil [they] shall not eat, for in the day that [they] eat of it [they] shall die (Genesis 2:16). Despite this warning, the woman, Eve, is eventually tempted to eat the fruit of the treat and convinces Adam to do the same, causing them to be cast out of the garden. Although Adam and Eve do have free will to do what they

Upon completion of his apprenticeship, he began setting up nurseries across the states. Stories say that he spread apple seeds everywhere he went, but the truth is that he would plant small patches of them, erecting fences to deter animals, and left the seedlings in care of neighbors who would protect and raise them. He returned every few years to tend to the trees and occasionally plant more saplings in the same area in order to further his efforts. In order to survive, he told stories to children, spread gospel to parents, and received a floor to sleep on and occasionally supper as

For many, going to church and praying to God is an important tradition passed down from

Not only does Pollan travel to the places where John Chapman lived back in the 19th century, but also does a great deal of research on the apple in order to have a more educated conclusion on the “environmentalist’s” persona. Pollan discusses that the apple is originally from the mountains of Kazakhstan, made its way to Europe through the silk trade route, and eventually to the United States with the arrival of Columbus and the rest of the Europeans. He also points out that the apples that we eat are strictly from grafted trees, therefore the seeds that Chapman was planting would produce apples so bitter and sour that they would only be edible in the form of hard apple cider. Furthermore, if much of Chapman’s business was focused around the production of trees to make cider then the essence of his story is completely altered. He is no longer a Christian saint who has devoted himself to preserving nature by planting trees; he is, as stated by Michael Pollan, an American Dionysus - Greek god of wine and

Jesus says this in John 15:1 “I AM the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser” (NASB). It is interesting to see the context and time when Jesus says this, and to see the relationship between him and his Father. I have always had a found liking to this particular passage as I grew up on an apple orchard, and was very acutely aware of the process of pruning branches at a young age. The concept of pruning away or cleaning the branches in order to bear much fruit is something that I related to very easily throughout my life.

It was just a simple narration of individual practice, and as it went on, hour after hour, with voluminous detail, specific and intense here, half disremembered and ambiguous there. Slowly it conveyed to the spectators the belief that it all happened – it was the truth. Falsehoods are not prepared as convoluted and intricate as that tale. Fiction so full of incident, so mixed of purpose and cross-purpose, so permeated with the play of human passion, does not spring offhand from the most marvelous fertile invention. Touching continually points on which there can be controversy, Orchard described undertakings whose purpose until to-day had been unknown, whose motive had lingered as clandestine. And as he continued to recount his story, the half-stifled gathering in the populated courtroom was so silent that his soft speech infiltrated to the farthermost area.

‘You have plucked fruit in the garden yonder. You have it in your pocket now. And you are going to carry it back, untasted, to the Lion; for him to eat, for him to use. You simpleton! Do you know what that fruit is? I will tell you. It is the apple of youth, the apple of life. I know, for I have tasted it; and I feel already such changes in myself that I know I shall never grow old or die. Eat it, Boy, eat it; and you and I will both live forever and be king and queen of this whole world - or of your

“Work is basic to all we do. God’s first direction to Adam in the Garden of Eden as recorded in scriptures was to dress the garden and take care of it. After the fall of Adam, God cursed the earth for Adams sake saying, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground.” (Gen. 3:19.) Today, many individuals have forgotten the value of work. Some falsely accept that the highest goal in life is to achieve a condition in which one no longer needs to work.” The Law of Harvest states our unprecedented capacity to” feed the need” as one prominent advertisement encourages to instantly gratifying, through this Inverse Law of the Harvest, is perhaps Satan’s most insidiously vaporous

In the beginning, God spoke all of creation into existence. From the dust of the ground He formed man, and from the man, He formed woman. After creating man, He looked at all of His creation and said that it was very good (Genesis 1:31). Adam and Eve lived and worked in the beautiful garden of Eden, enjoying all of God’s creations and fellowship with Him. That is, until one day Adam and Even sinned before the Lord by eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Their decision, impacted by Satan himself, was in direct conflict with God’s directions for them. For He had told them that they could eat of any tree of the garden, except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Their actions introduced sin into the human

Adam was given the garden and he failed to take care of it by eating of the forbidden fruit. Stewardship begins with our relationship with God. Before Adam sinned, he was a steward. If we claim to be Christians, then we need to seek to be what Adam was made to be. This means we take care of what God has placed in our hands. So consider this when you’re next thinking about what you might sacrifice for all generations. What if you were walking in the Garden with God, what would he tell you to do? He would give you limitless possibilities. So maybe the correct question is no longer “Why, God?” but rather “God, what do I do?”

Genesis 1:11-13 deals with the creation of plants and trees. To some this may not seem to be all that amazing, but if you really think about it God was preparing this earth for human inhabitation with all of these creations. Plants and trees are a staple of life and without them the human race would surly parish. We receive