Sad Story Essay

Lukas could feel the tears streaming down in face, his stoic composure long gone. There had been a fight- another fight, and a slammed door. Now he was left in his shared apartment, trying to wrap his head around what had happened.

It was my responsibility to help her reach a different understanding. With compassion and love, I discussed with her the circumstance of her history. We read religious text together. I was able to attend her baptismal service later that week.

Both of us wind up considering going to Seminary of all places for some similar reasons. So, our stories have some common ground so far except her path to seminary was paved while climbing out of that pit of darkness, whereas mine came much later in a more comfortable place in life in the form of a spiritual tug of war that I obviously lost. Nadia made many a point in her book that bears repeating but there were a couple that stood out to me one is "we are simultaneously sinner and saint. 100 percent of both, all the time" (Boltz-Weber, 2013), this was like an epiphany moment for me as I always knew I could never bury the sinner in me, so following a calling to seminary was just illogical. Another ah ha moment she made was that God always moves to us in our relationship to him, we do not move to him (Boltz-Weber, 2013). Again, I found myself saying "if only I had known", because I am a stubborn human being and refuse to move closer to anything or anybody, but all this time God has been moving closer to me, understanding my hesitation to be the seeker in a

A sequence is a set of related things, but obviously some things are more relative than others. Let us say you had two circles and one oval, sure an oval could join the sequence since it is spherical with no sharp edges but the other circle is more related to the circle because they are identical. That is to say, when we talk about archetypes we can understand that some characters would be more relative to the archetype than other characters. Notably, this also occurs with tragic heroes, some are

I began exploring faith with my Christian wife, Gloria, about six months ago, and made the decision to attend church with her. On the first day of attending church, I was approached by a fellow parishioner

The story “A Bag of Oranges” by Spiro Athanas tells about a poor family lived in the rotting slum and the boy in this family became a mature person from a childish kid. Because the boy’s father needs to pay his responsibility to his family and the people who he loved, so his rude behavior and act makes his son hate him for a short time. After the boy notice his family’s financial situation, then he realize it’s not easy be an adult to making life run in the society, and you would lose some important things while you are paying responsibility to your family, so he begin understand his father. When the boy know his father hit by a car, all his emotion spew out and make his act like an adult in the end of the

Colorado Christian University Essay Kim Slickmeyer A pivotal experience that I had in my walk with Jesus occurred during “The Walk to Emmaus” in September 2012. I attended the weekend retreat at Livingston First Church in Livingston, Tennessee during the women’s Walk #82 and was assigned the table of Ruth. The fellowship and spiritual experience was beyond what I had expected. The Lord revealed to me during that weekend that He was calling me to teach His Word to women. During the next few months I began leading and attending various Bible studies. I was amazed how much I was learning and the wisdom that God was revealing to me. As with everything in life, there were many who wanted to keep me down knowing I was excited and determined. Some

After morning worship service I approached the Sunday School Superintendent, my exact words were “I am ready for God to use me and I want to be a teacher for Sunday School.” She looked at me and said “Okay, great you will have to start your training soon as possible so come to the church on Saturday at one o’clock in the afternoon.” I said “perfect”. When I got in the car I told my wife the good news, she said, “that’s great and if I can be any help let me know.” I told

On March 6th, I called to Kim through Facetime. I was nervous at first because I have not seen her for a while. However, at the same time, I was also excited to see and

It was rewarding working on Service Day at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church. Having my family by my side, we cleaned the campus grounds, and worked inside the sanctuary cleaning and polishing pews. It was a pleasure meeting people from the parish and making friendships. After attending Service Day, I felt pride, and reminisced about the fun I had working at the church with my friends. Consequently, I realized I wasn’t a member of the Church! Therefore, I spoke to my parents about how intensely my siblings and I wanted to become Catholic. Our family practices Christianity and believes in God, nevertheless it is an enormous commitment to become Catholic and join the Church.

Starting my life off, things were great, I was the youngest of three boys; Alex is my oldest brother who is currently 24, my second oldest brother is 20. In addition to my two brothers I have both supportive and caring parents. My family and I practice Methodist, which started shortly after I was born with me being baptized while surrounded by my; aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, two brothers, and both my mom and dad. After being baptized as a family we would occasionally go to church but sadly as time pasted we when went less and less till we stopped shortly before we moved to Florida. The summer before we moved to Florida I was in the fourth grade and became good friends with a girl named Kristen and her family was heavily religious. Kristen and I started to hang out more and more one day she invited me to go to one of her churches services and I really enjoyed it, afterwards they had a youth group where they had a bonding activity. Kristen and I went to church a few more times before I left in late July to move to Jacksonville.

And this Friday after I preached I sat down and spoke to her. She told me that she felt uncomfortable when I told her that Jesus loves her. She had a hard time comprehending that, and I sat and with her along with the other Youth leader and we spoke to her. It was a great moment just to sit down and talk to her about the questions that she had and is gaining through.

This day was a special day, I was building up the courage to some how to get Amanda’s number. I began talking to her while in the first

Broken Lives written by Estelle Blackburn is an expository text, which through research has presented that nineteen year old John Button was wrongfully convicted of killing his seventeen year old girlfriend Rosemary Anderson in a hit and run. I believe through my reading of Broken Lives that the key factor of expository texts is to explore awkward questions deeply and critically. In this case who was guilty of killing Rosemary Anderson in a hit and run, John Button or Eric Edgar Cooke, and the effect of Cooke’s crimes and murders had on people.

In many, a tragedy do the tragic heroes have flaws that lead themselves to their own demise. The main character always acts exactly on his or her own emotions; thus aiding their tragic flaw and leading to their own demise without giving them the time to stop the repercussions of their emotion driven actions. In the play “Antigone” by Sophocles many of the characters are simply too headstrong and passionate about their beliefs to realize that they would greatly regret the decisions they are making. All of the characters share this characteristic; it is alluded to in the play that this is caused by their blood relation to Oedipus and how they are too cursed.