You Meet In Heaven: Personal Journal

I lived in Barriere most of my life since 1998 .. I lived in a family with three sisters and a brother named Shilo, Jessica, Moriah, and Thomas. Moved to a 5 bedroom house, my room was downstairs. I lived in a teachers subdivision in Barriere. Back then my home church is Pentacostal Christian Life Assembly I still attend there today. My family had been going there since was about 4 years old. At that time I had been going to youth run by a guy named Cliff Millar at the PCLA. I had lots of friends in Barriere and surrounding places. I hanged with my crew in that youth group. I was just hanging with them to feel like I belonged somewhere. But really I was empty inside I felt as if I needed to act out or showoff to become cooler and or better

In the passages "Boy's Life" and "Emancipation: A Life Fable", there was the similar theme that " All things must come to an end." In Boy's Life the teacher is very lonely and thinks of the students as her family. Then, they all leave for the summer. In Emancipation: A Life Fable the cage opens accidentally then the cdritter escapes. After the critter left, the cage stayed open forever.

“Some people come into our lives as blessings. Others come into our lives as lessons.” This statement influenced by Mother Teresa speaks of people, and how people can come into our lives and flip our world upside down. They can influence our life and our feelings and help us see the world as something new. Almost as if we are told, does your life end tomorrow? From the two books we’ve read, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie, it is possible that today, tomorrow or a week from now could be our last day on the planet. First example is Tuesdays with Morrie, in the story Morrie (main character) is stricken with disease and is counting down his final days and Mitch, and old student of Morrie stops for a

"So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with." Such is true for writing; such is true for life. With her unconventionally structured characters, and sarcastic tone, Atwood still conveys one of the most important concepts of life: Learn to cherish the time in between the beginning and the end, then perhaps you can make your own happy ending.

Tears poured down my face like I was in a rain forest, hugged my mom tightly as if she was a cuddly stuffed animal and I prayed, prayed like I’ve never prayed before. Not really knowing what was going on or what was going to happen. My sister arrived home, followed by my dad shortly after. While we waited to hear back from the hospital, we sat on the couch in the living room bawling our eyes out probably. Don’t worry, I will tell you about what is going on.

A phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. To a phoenix, death is merely the birth of something new. Similarly, in All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, death represents the beginning of something new. It is what causes change in the characters, and can explain why they act as they do. The novel begins with the death of John Grady Cole’s (the main character) grandfather. This death leads to John Grady leaving for Mexico. So in a way, this death really does mark the beginning of this novel- literally and figuratively. Furthermore, halfway through All the Pretty Horses, John Grady’s ill fated companion Blevins is killed. This death represents a change in the characters,

Endings are needed to keep life moving forward. The end helps one with dedication, interpretation, and expectation. As Alexander Graham Bell once said “as one door closes another one

At the end, the characters accept their motives, ambitions, hopes and fears which determine their actions

The ends of the story are very different from each other in quite a few ways. Let just say there is a good ending in one story and a bad ending in another. Lets go deeper

Church, temple, sanctuary, or the Lords’s house, these are just a few names that your average person might call the place you come to worship God, I have always called it home. The Church I have been attending, Memorial Baptist Church, which is also where I attend high school, I have been attending since I was the age of three years old. Moving to the area that my family lives in now, I do not believe is any accident. At the age of two years old, my father was stationed in Tennessee for the military. After passing away from brain cancer, my Mother moved my two older sisters and me to Killeen Texas, to be closer to her family. Memorial Baptist Church was the only church we have ever been members of since moving to Texas, it has always felt like

is about. Thus, from the beginning of the story until almost the end, there is an

According to Kevin Nelson, a neuroscientist and the author of “The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain,” adults often have a sense of looking back over a life; young children, lacking that perspective, tend to report “castles and rainbows, often populated with pets, wizards, guardian angels, and like adults, they see relatives and religious figures, too.” It’s hard to convey to anyone who grew up without the idea of God just how fully the language, stories and “logic” of the Bible can dominate a young mind, even perhaps especially the mind of a toddler (Nelson, The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain”20-21.) There have been various accounts taken over the years regarding near death or life after death experiences. A known account of this situation is taken from Colton Burpo, in which a bestseller book published in 2010 and motion picture released in 2014 known as “Heaven is for Real” is based on. In 2003 three year-old Colton claimed to have visited Heaven during a near death experience where an emergency surgery was performed on him to save his life. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks about things that happened before his birth... things he could not possibly know. The next is the story of Dr. Eben Alexander, who is a proclaimed neurosurgeon and writer coming from a lineage of scholars and medical doctors. He

The conflict that begins the story is nothing compared to where it ends up. Wolff begins with everyday nuances that everyone can relate to. However, it is soon realized that the story and, specifically, Anders will not have a happy ending. The reader can tell

The theme of the story is that all good things will come to an end, and that living a secret life will inevitably lead to isolation.

Being an Atheist, I’ve had hundreds of arguments with Christians about Jesus and religion in general. No matter what evidence I provided, the Christian always seemed to bypass it with the Personal relationship cop out. They would tell me they don’t practice religion, and that they have a personal relationship with Jesus. They would insist that I take five minutes of my time at night and call on Jesus while I’m all alone. Christians believed that Jesus would answer me, and my pathetic life will never be the same. It dawned on me that they were merely regurgitating what was taught to them by others. That the Christian didn’t really have a personal relationship with Jesus, but a personal relationship with themselves. Being frustrated with the fact that Christians can actually get away with not providing substantial evidence, I decided to research the origin of the personal relationship copout. Who created the concept of a personal relationship? Is the personal relationship copout in the bible? How old is the concept of a personal relationship? These are the questions that turned on the light bulb in my head. I just had to research and find out the answers, so here it is.