Wolterstorff's Life During A Time Of Grief Essay

Explanation of how hope of the resurrection plays a role in comforting Wolterstorff is present, with detail and many examples, and shows a deep understanding.

A person living with the circumstances of Erik Weihenmayer may have a difficult time accepting them, and making the best of the situation- and justly so. They would be presented with an exhausting conglomeration of obstacles. Erik Weihenmayer learned to accept his situation. He chose not to see it as a road block to a fulfilling life, and went on to climb some of the world’s tallest peaks, attain an education and a career, and his face on the cover of Time Magazine.. The essay “Blindly he goes up”, it is disclosed that Weihenmayer became lost while trying to find his way to a gym, only to arrive once it had closed for the day. He chose to see the situation as an adventure rather than a nightmare. He faced life with an exemplary attitude, and

He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me I heard the same man ask where is God now? And I heard a voice within me answer him: Where is He? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows? (Wiesel 62)

The theme of this novella is to look at the good you do in life and how it carries over after your death. The moral of the book is; "People can make changes in their lives whenever they really want to, even right up to the end."

Sacrificed the truth, beauty and the right to think, happiness and comfort is just indulgent, it is the discomfort brought by the misery, responsibility and the bonding give us the weight of life. The world is full of people who try hard to gain happiness, and we all have at least one time the idea of living in a perfect world, a world without pain, without misery, without getting old and without cancers. We always ignored the importance and the beauty of uncomfortableness, just as a quote in this book said, “Stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand”. After read this book, I started to be more objective at those bad things I used to hate, to understand the significance of art and to be grateful to this imperfect world we are

The grieving that individuals experience with death is unique, but the main stages are universal across cultures (Axelrod, 2017). There are five stages of grief. Nicolas Wolterstorff’s story, Lament for a Son, addresses these five stages as he tries to find joy after the loss of his son. The meaning and significance of death in light of the Christian narrative is also addressed in the story. Having a hope of the resurrection can help comfort individuals in situations similar to Wolterstorff (Wolterstorff, 1978).

In the face of the crematory pit, Elie Wiesel says, “For the first time I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?” (Wiesel 31). Elie is doubting God especially since he can’t find anything to thank God for.

By biological logic, we human beings will face death sooner or later in our life and death has its very own ways to approach us - a sudden deadly strike, a critical sickness, a tragic accident, a prolonged endurance of brutal treatment, or just an aging biological end. To deal with the prospect of death come different passive or active reactions; some may be scared and anxious to see death, some try to run away from it, and some by their own choice make death come faster. But Viktor Frankl, through his work Man’s Search for Meaning, and Bryan Doyle; in his essay “His Last Game” show us choices to confront the death, bring it to our deepest feelings, meaningful satisfaction. To me, the spirit of the prisoners at deadly concentration camps, Frankl’s Logotherapy theory of “. . . striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man.” (99), as well as the calmness of Doyle’s brother on his last ride, like an awaken bell, remind us of how precious life is, how we should find the significance in every act of living, determine to live a meaningful life at any circumstances; hence, when death comes, we can accept it without anxiety nor regrets.

As demonstrated by the five stages of grief, Dr. Wolterstorff suffers greatly emotionally as he deals with his son’s death. In a bid to settle his depression, he reads the Bible on similar experiences that people had (Wolterstorff, 1987). He finds hope after reading and comprehending about Jesus Christ life, death, and resurrection. The story gives him hope that one day his son, Eric, will resurrect one day because God has the power to make such things possible. Dr. Wolterstorfffinally accepts the fact that Eric died, but he will see him in

Abstract The author’s perception and treatment of Everyman are that each individual need to prepare for it by repenting, following God, and doing good works. The author’s perception is that at the end of the day one cannot take anything or anyone with them when they die. The only entity someone can take is their actions and how they use the resources that are given to them. Those who put God before everything and perform good works will enjoy eternity with Him, but those who enjoy only the pleasures of life and forget God, will not. The author’s main message throughout the play is to not fearful of death but know that one day everyone will die, so do as much good as one can, repent of one’s sins, and to put God first. Keywords: author, perception, treatment, death The Author’s Perception and Treatment of Death in Everyman In the late fifteenth century, an unknown author wrote a morality play called Everyman. According to Pearson, a morality play during the Medieval period would communicate a moral lesson and make it so simple that both illiterate and well-educated audiences could both understand the lesson (Adu-Gyamfi, 2016). One may believe that the author of Everyman want to communicate to the audience that everyone will receive judgment the actions they commit on Earth. The author’s perception of death is that God is the only one who has the power to control when each individual die, so if one has a relationship with Him one should not be fearful death. The author

In James Baldwin’s 1952 novel “Go Tell It On The Mountain” the characters in the novel each embark on a spiritual journey. Baldwin has dedicated a chapter to each member of the Grimes family, detailing their trails and tribulations, hopes and aspirations, as each one’s quest to get closer to God becomes a battle. I have chosen the character John because I admire the fierce struggle he endured to find his spirituality. I will examine how he’s embarked on his quest and prove that he has done it with integrity and dignity.

Even though people have been dying since the start of life, we can never get use to the idea of leaving our loved ones behind. Therefore humans choose to disregard death and get pleasure from life, and consequently we tend to stray away from righteousness. Two works; Everyman by an unknown author, and The Pardoner’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer have been written to preach humans toward Christianity-the right way of living. These authors utilize plot to reveal the role of death in understanding life. This is achieve by drawing on the foolishness of mankind, their response to the inevitable death and the effect of death on protagonists which altogether helps the readers understand worldly treasures are temporary.

We all live and we all die. Most of us hope to live and leave a legacy, something to be remembered by. It is inevitable that we will die, but dying young is a tale that Norman Maclean serves us in Young Men and Fire. Maclean devours the anguish of dying young to the passion of the Christ. Maclean’s background allows him to tell this tale with a divine humility, enabling him to seize this matter with solemnity and respect. While a Christians’ honor Christ’s sacrifice for us, Normal Maclean shines respect and honor on the tragic death of the brave men who lost their lives in the raging mountain wildfire. Normal Maclean searches for the truth when thirteen smokejumpers’ lost their lives in the Mann Gulch fire in 1949, giving the reader some hope that God had a plan for their journey.

Kelfer’s audience broadened from one personality to a wide spectrum of individuals. He addressed his audience in second person as if speaking to one individual. Although he wrote in second person, Mr. Kelfer’s actual audience included magnanimous number of individuals due to his radio ministry and publication of the poem on his website. Unlike some messages, which only target certain individuals in crisis or pain, his poem touched a chord in almost all reader’s hearts. By writing in second person, the author wrote this heartfelt poem as if personally encouraging each reader of God’s design in each of their personalities and

In the Seafarer, a hopeless man is suffering the pain during his duty as a sealer. Burton Raffel presents the extremely loneliness and sadness to be a sealer “my feet were cast in icy bands, bound with frost, with frozen chains, and hardship groaned around my heart”. (Raffel) By showing physical pain in terrible cold winter, the author indicate that the man only can endure the weather because there is nothing for him to do to change his situation better. Along with the decreasing temperature and the worsening weather, the frozen bands raise and spread to his whole body and even expand to his heart. Now, he is emotional not only experienced the pain on his body but also inside the deepest of his heart. With great distances away from homeland, he is even more depressive and isolated to think about the comfortable “city dwellers” by comparing his hardship of life. In the end of the poem, his spirit reaches to the climax and thinks that the beauty comes truly from God in the heaven. To clarify how important the God is to the man, Burton Raffel states “to rise to that eternal joy, that life born in the love of God and the hope of Heaven, praise the Holy Grace of him who honored us, eternal, unchanging creator of Earth”. (Raffel) The speaker discusses that the worldly things no longer affect the sealer’s emotion because the home with presents and praises for the man is in the heaven with God’s glory. The harsh condition through his life can overcome by dreaming beautiful and spiritual life different from the sinful soul covering the earth. The elegy like a imagery is pictured when sunshines shine to melt the ice bulk to the soften liquid. The sealer’s beauty comes from the pain which leads him to understand the belief toward God and heaven that means working hard and living humbly in order to get eternal