The Journey Of My Journey

This paper is written to share my personal spiritual journey. I will discuss the influence my family has had during my upbringing on my religious and spiritual practices. I will additionally share how my spirituality has changed and evolved over time as I married and now have a family of my own. This paper will describe how spirituality has determined and motivated my personality and the adult I have become. This will help me to expound on how my personal spiritual beliefs will establish a respectful, collaborative, and caring relationships with my future clients.

“A Journey” is a short story written by Edith Wharton in 1899 as part of her collection of short stories called “The Greater Inclination.” This short story is about a wife and husband traveling from Colorado to New York. They travel in turmoil, due to the husband being very sick. He consequently dies, leaving the wife to reach New York on her own, while at the same time, covering up the death of her husband so she does not get booted off the train. While on the train, the wife has several encounters with the porter and passengers, in which she begins to falter and hesitate when talking to them. In “A Journey,” Edith Wharton’s use of tone and imagery revolving around the wife, conveys the negative impact the death of a husband has on a woman to interact with others in a calm manner.

Walking into my high school, I already had trouble understanding the language, and top of that, I constantly feared eyes judging me. I felt lonely and lost hope of living a joyful life similar to the one I experienced in India. At times, I grew frustrated with the criticism I received when I could not effectively express my thoughts, but today, I write papers and give presentations fluently. My tenacity disproved my judgment and I started believing anything is achievable with determination. When I acknowledged the criticisms and challenged myself to learn the language and make wonderful friends, a different me

My first encounter with English was at my mother’s workplace. I picked up some words when my mother spoke to customers, but had no idea what each word meant. When school started, I didn’t talk to anyone since most of them spoke English so I felt like an outcast. Still, I tried my best to do well in English, however in fourth grade kids found it humorous that I struggle when I spoke English and they would bully me. When they teased me I would get frustrated and would sit there sobbing and feeling morose for hours and hours. Finally elementary school was over and its time to go to middle school

The Amazing Journey Daniel swallows some gum. He shows Tippy and Kitty the pack of gum with the warning DO NOT SWALLOW. Kitty has the idea for Daniel to tell Papa he swallowed gum. Using an X-ray Papa can see the gum in Daniel's tummy. Papa's laboratory has a shrinking machine that allows the gang to take a ride through Daniel's body and retrieve the swallowed gum.

Similar to Sasha, my career of studying English also began at the time when I was literally very young except for one thing - my journey to learning English was not perfect. Instead, there was winds and rain the whole way. I wasn’t born with interesting in learning English. In other words, my first impression of English wasn’t favorable. Unlike Sasha who was keen on reading and writing, I was forced to study English hard as if slaves were forced to bend. Sasha’s parents were so nice that they were willing to help improve the word usage of their daughter and I was lucky as she was. As I was full of hatred and resentment for English and tried to rebel against the English course by playing truant and trying not to finish the homework carefully in primary school, a turning point occurred - my grandmother who was also an English

I have attended to alternate spring break mission trips in 10th grade and 11th. Sophomore year I attended the mission trip in Mississippi, we helped a family that did not have the resources to fix their home. The woman who we helped was having flooding problems, so we renovated her living room. We put a wooden fence in her back yard and put pipes in her back yard to move the water that would come into her home to the street. Junior year I attended the mission trip in Kentucky, we also helped people who live in poverty and did not have the resources to make necessary improvements on their homes. We built a ramp for the elderly couple and made there door wider so the women would be able to get into her home with her wheelchair. This was very important to me because I am able t help others have things that they deserve and need but are not able to have. They are in a situation where they are not able to do these things or have the finances to do them. I also helped out at the Muskegon Catholic Central’s Fish Fry. Helping with that ever easy needed. I helped by cleaning table, working in the takeout window and whatever else was needed.

Sharon and Kristy, without your confidence, I did not have the courage to make the leap to the upgrade. I was afraid that I would lose the ring forever and we had many wonderful years of living tied up in the history of our rings. You gave me courage and again I thank you.

I was always troubled by the trash humans produce. I learned of this going on a scuba trip to florida, that allowed us to go down to a couple ships wrecks. Down there were the ships and coral reefs, which didn't surprise me. What did surprise me was the how oily the water was, how different it felt from salt water from New York. It made me realize how much humans affect our world. It was a life changing experience that made me want to tackle pollution wherever it is in the world. I wanted to protect the beautiful creatures i saw on land and in the ocean.

I. Personal Profile: As I ponder over my thoughts and reflect on where I am in my journey of spiritual growth, all I can do is just thank God for all He has done. My spiritual journey has been full of ups and downs, but I would not change any of it because I had to go through the things I have went through to get to where I am today. Before I started living fully for Jesus, I was just existing and living my life without a purpose. I was lost and was seeking validation from everyone but God. My spiritual journey did not start until I realized that I was searching for happiness in all wrong places, and that my happiness was found in God. Once I discovered that and began building a relationship with God, my love began to increase for Him and all He has done. I began to see things clearer and God started removing toxic people out of my life and molding me into what he created me to be. In this season of my journey, I believe God is taking me through the pruning phase. In john 15:2 it says, “Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it do that it may bear more fruit.” Jesus is stripping me from everything that no longer serves a purpose in my life. He is setting me apart and preparing me for my purpose on earth. God is changing everything about me from the inside out, and removing anything that is not of him and making me more like him. He is making me very uncomfortable, so that I have no choice but to learn to fully

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” In other words a journey and the experiences you have are better than the actual destination. The novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain and the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost have taught me that journeys may involves barriers and hardships, they can lead to significant personal change and more importantly journeys facilitate reflection about how you see yourself, others and the world. Journeys are very important in personal change and growth. They can also help us in comparing and contrasting new and old experiences.

So, my journey starts in the year 2011, where I grew up in a City of India, Hissar, speaking the native language Hindi. The 11 years of my life which I spent speaking the native language amongst some other words, from the 26 plus languages that India offers. Nevertheless, that was not a barrier for me to not speak English, as my school being an English Medium School, where if you spoke in the native language, you would pay a fine of 10 Rupees. So, it wasn’t tough for me to speak English. The difficulty being, my mother tongue being spoken at home and other side English is mandatory to be spoken in school, making it problematic for me to combine the two totally different environments. Consecutively, leading into my prevalent barrier which stopped me from being able to fluently speak English. Accordingly, my Father always says respect is an essential, needs to be earned not forced and the only way to earn someone’s respect is if you can communicate in different languages. Furthermore, he said “English is the key to respect and power.” My journey in India, was all on top of mountains, nevertheless I went through the deep valley of despairs, when I came to Australia.

Born and raised in North Carolina, you pick up quite a few things along the way, especially if you moved around a lot in your own hometown. Since I did move around a lot, you can only guess what happens in that process, I attended many different schools around that time of my life. Luckily, we’ve settled in to our dream house and are living life to the fullest.

My life has gone through many different stages. Each stage has taught me new lessons about myself and has shaped my way of viewing the world. The way I was raised by my parents has made me the person who I am today. I believe my life experiences have pointed to the path of being a teacher.

My journey the day I left my home country in search of a better life was not as pleasurable or exciting as I expected. Although it was not a long flight, the accumulation of unexpected vicissitudes during the trip made my dream of traveling an absolute nightmare. Not only my sadness to be leaving my family behind, the uncertainty to fly alone and for the first time, or my inexperience with the procedures at the airport contributed to this calamity, but even my neighbor on the plane added his bit of sand in the affair. All this situation was such traumatic to me that I even considered never daring to fly again.