Jason Gray's Remind Me Who I Am

He would continually say in his diary that he felt the Lord. Then the next day he said that he did not feel the presence of the Lord. Overall he would say that he longed to grow closer and closer to the Lord.

This is a great example of perception vs. reality as everyone makes it seem that one person might be happy, but inside they can be at the complete opposite state. This causes him to have the desire for more wisdom than what he has been taught. He wanted to find out what was really important and wanted to feel no emotion in regards to what people think of him.

war and his life as a pastor and father in a small town in Georgia. His mind was exiled from

He was forced into one of the worst labor concentration camps and through it all he found and held on to the slightest bit of hope. For example, “ I no longer felt anything except for the lashes of the whip….He took his time with the lashes. Only the first one really hurt.” Even though the lashes hurt really bad all he could think about was his father, “ I was thinking of my father. He would be suffering more than I,” He wasn’t really focused on the fact that he just got beat. He had lost his faith and belief in God through this traumatic event; and even through this time, when he had little faith, he was resilient and pushed through. He pushed through even though he had no idea of the future. Even though he could have give up and died at any point during his time there, he decided to be resilient and to keep

He was a hospitable, respectful person. He wanted to be baptized and received into the church.

His experiences in the camps caused him to lose faith in god, as well as his survival. In the camps the jews were abused, starved, and murdered. His attitude towards his life changed. He wrote “It no longer mattered after my father’s death”. He watched the Nazi’s abused his father, although he wanted to do something he just couldn’t. After that he no longer cared.

At first, his faith in God becomes genuine. He becomes so interested in learning and knowing everything about God. When asked why he prays to God he answers, “Why did I

Near the start of the story, he was obsessed with his religion where his father told him to stop because he was too young. When he witnessed all the death and misery in the camp Auschwitz, his faith changed, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent.” (Wiesel 33).

He was full of anger and despair. For this reason, he behaved badly: “He once broke away from guards while being returned to his cell from the exercise yard…” wrote Earle. But somehow, after a while, he began to change his behavior. He became concerned about God, and therefore, he became interested in religion. He was no longer the problematic prisoner he became loved and respected by all.

All of these things show his self-improvement, his strength for working on his problems alone and trying to get salvation in ways he can be proud of after, being able to say he made himself a better person.

     After he delt with the death of a close religious friend he experienced the loss of a close

He was abused by his father constantly which made him think that he had no one beside him to lead him through the correct path, it was shown in this quote "And always the darkness just wrapped itself around me, black and bitter. Due to the fact

“I Am” is a documentary made by Tom Shadyac. He was in a bicycle accident that led to him having suffering from post-concussion syndrome for a short period in his life. The life altering accident led him to that asking two questions: what wrong with the world, and what can we do to change it. After watching the movie, my view on the world’s chaos can be traced back to mankind.

Tying this information together the artist could have also wanted the viewer to realize that not everyone thinks the same or has the same perspectives when viewing just about anything in life; this was the meaning that initially struck me when viewing this

Though he was in a clash between worldly ambitions and the love of God, we can see from his writings that his heart burned intensely for truth. In Book 1 of his invocation, he says, “let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you”, thus demonstrating his craving desire to be with God despite the road that his past had led him to. We can also comprehend by what he tells us in book III about his pleasures, that “loving and being loved were good to [him]”, which is why he inclined towards lustful desires not knowing that the only one who could satisfy these desires was God. This ends up being his main point of narrating these certain events of his life, to help us grasp that any inclination towards what is not of God will not fill our cup.