Jesus 9.9 Research Paper

My hands... My spirit... My sky... My forest...This earth is mine...” (Chapter 11 Paragraphs 1-2)

Simple bushes bloomed berries of all sorts, every tree blossomed branches full of fruit, and even the beauteous flowering stalks grew great harvests at their roots.

“ Since that day, no man is so near to him as you. You tread behind his every footstep. You are beside him, sleeping and waking. You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart!”.

Thou hast decided to remain with us through thy admirable image, thou who art our Mother, our health and our life. Placing ourselves beneath thy maternal gaze and having recourse to thee in all our necessities we need do nothing more. O Holy

"And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;"(3) Leaves fall from trees when they are dead, and the

In “Torture” by Alice Walker, the speaker repeats a similar anaphora of “when they torture/begin to torture/assassinate… plant a tree”. The use of repetition shows the importance of the ability to persevere and remain positive while facing extreme adversity, and that in doing so, one can gain valuable wisdom. No matter what horrible thing life throws at people, it is important to be be strong and to not let the bad things affect people. Even when “they” silence a person to prevent them from expressing them themselves and sharing their hardships, one must keep on forwarding one’s own cause. When all of the progress made amidst the “torture” and hardships is threatened, then one must “start another” and continue persevering.

For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence / With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself; / The bark is ready, and the wind

This also alludes to the true Christian and the false Christian, where the only things separating them are their works. The true Christian listens and obeys the words, while the false Christian may look the same, but has not applied the teachings of Christ to his life. We can’t always tell if a person is a Christian by their outward appearances. We look at someone in church and don’t know if Christ is really in them. Jesus taught to the Jews of his time about repentance and that he was the way the truth and the life, that nobody comes to the father except by me. The Jews of the time may have embraced him, thought he was a great prophet, great teacher, and he spoke with wisdom, but the false Christians were the ones who rejected the teachings and did not repent of their sins. Their foundation was not there and their admiration of him was in vain.

Consequently the apple tree that was sought out to be assured had died and has penetrated to the speaker with deep regret. This regret runs deeply and plagues the poet and soaks him with despondency. Through the use of reading this poem it is gathered that the author wants the audience to understand that you have to give something in order to get something in return. It was reflected in the poem that speaker did not give much to the tree and the result of that was that the tree barely gave him something in return. Even Though the tree did give something in return it did die shortly after as it started to wither.

Jesus held many conversations with his disciples and even the devil himself. One of the many disorders of an ill person is the inability to hold a conversation with anyone. In the bible it says the crowds were amazed at his word because they were spoke with such authority.Matthew 13:34 “Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.” “It only crazy to claim to be Micheal Jackson if you aren’t Micheal Jackson. It’s only crazy to claim to be God if you aren’t

“You’ll remain between heaven and mortality until your purification is complete. Then you will ascend to heaven as my daughter, and I will, sometime in the future.”

John 15:5, “5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”

Though Jesus was sinless and undeserving of death, he offered himself as a sacrifice in atonement for all sin (Invitation to World Religions, pg.418). Paul was always emphatic in maintaining that salvation cannot be earned by “works”, whether humans’ effort to obey the commandments in the Torah or excellent work in general. Instead, he taught that the salvation made possible by Christ’s sacrifice is a gift, the ultimate expression of God’s love and grace. Salvation is given to those who respond to God’s grace in faith, the conviction that God has acted through Jesus Christ to amend for human sin. Although Paul was very clear in teaching that salvation depends on God’s grace and the individual’s turning to God in faith, he did not dismiss the importance of works (Invitation to World Religions, pg.419). For Paul, faith does more than bringing salvation; it unites the believers with Christ in a “newness of life”. He believed that the spirit lives in believers and brings them into union with God. As a divine presence within, the spirit encourages the growth of spiritual virtues, the greatest which is love and makes all Christians one in the church often called “the body of Christ”.

This quote, from the story Song of Trees, tells

afterward you will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth