You see I found I'm human, and prone to make mistakes, but God's love is unconditional, he'll give you what it takes. If God himself forgives and loves a tortured soul like mine, Why shouldn't I forgive myself and leave the guilt behind? Today I take life easily and let God direct my day. When conflict or confusion comes, he shows me the way. The door was opened, I stepped through, despair came to an end, the eighteenth shot of liquid sin no longer is my friend.
My favorite verse from that section was Exodus 21:22-25. I had never heard of the premature fine or retaliation and it is very interesting because it does paint a perfect picture that even in biblical times it was not okay to abort. My favorite part from the philosophical section was when they talked about quality of life as a reason for abortion. I liked the example the article gave of May, Jesus’s mother. She was poor and had a baby that was not her husbands, yet she decided to keep it and it was the savior of the world.
The words of her father while on his deathbed seems to be what I felt Barton lived by in her life; “As a Patriot he bade serve my country with all I had, even my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he bad me seek and comfort the afflicted everywhere, and as a Christian he charged me to honor God and love mankind”. She of course had her faults as everyone does, but they did not always have bad effects. While she was not keen with others surpassing her, it helped her to also go farther than she would have most likely imagined. By standards of today’s idea of Christianity, it would depend on how you look at it. She accomplished a great deal of good in the United States, and in the world itself, but is the question would be if what she did was good enough to
She reacts the same when she finds out about Eric being the father of the baby. She thinks she knows best for her children, she probably believes she is protecting them, for instance, when Gerald talks about “women of the town” and Mrs Birling wants Sheila to go out and not listen“ It would be much better if Sheila didn’t listen to this story at all”. Sybil is an extremely self-satisfied woman: “Yes. We’ve done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases”, she is very proud of herself and of the “kind” things she does and she is also a judgmental person. Priestly shows how she is the one that decides if she wants to help a woman in need.
This is significant because it shows that Patria is very loving and faithful person. The pearl of great price is her faith. She loses it later in the book, when she loses her baby. She finds her faith again at the religious retreat, when the young boy dies that reminds her of her son. While Patria and Dede are developed in very similar ways, Alvarez takes a different direction with
She was so dedicated, she was a good Christian, but instead a getting something good in return she suffered and suffered till the end...She prayed day and night, hoping that her prayers and would be answered after all her suffering, but at the end it seemed that the Big Man had other plans for her... Jesus Christ said that the greatest thing is to sacrifice yourself for your friends. Indeed if Nanni did something in her life it was to sacrifice herself for all of those that ignored her and mistreated her and especially for the Respected Josiah Bryn-Bevan that she so loved and was proud of till the end. Caradoc Evans in ‘’Be This Her Memorial’’ wants in a way to attack the hypocritical Welsh people, he wants to show how religion can be bad at times and how we have to think not just follow, because if we just follow without thinking we might end up like Nanni, sacrificing everything without getting anything in
Jody is dead. Mah husband is gone from me” (Hurston 87) This limit to the scope of one’s power proves the central problem with Jody’s power-oriented approach toward achieving fulfillment: ultimately, Jody can neither stop his deterioration nor silence Janie’s strong will. Title: I believe that the title Their Eyes were watching God is appropriate. Throughout the novel, Janie consistently refers to God and because her knowledge of God made her to the character she is now. “She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up.
Similar to Amir, Immaculee loses faith in God when the genocide first begins. She rekindles this faith when she comprehends the fact that the only thing she has left is God. God is the only one who can save her from the killers, so she puts complete trust in Him. “Everything I loved in this world has been taken away. I’m putting my life in your hands, Jesus… keep your promise and take care of me.
God has granted her grace just before she died. The Misfit seems to be open to grace in this very moment. He recognizes that the grandmother’s final act was genuinely good and her confrontation was good as well. “She would have been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” No pleasure but meanness” (134-140) Although he claimed earlier that there was “no pleasure but meanness” in life, he now denies that there is any pleasure in life at all. “Shut up, Bobby Lee, “ The Misfit said.
Flannery O’Connor should have titled the story “A Good PERSON Is Hard to Find” this would have fit with the theme of what she was trying to get across to the audience. O’Connor used gestures to grab her audience and what better than an old Southern woman and a sociopath killer. In the end after years of acting like a good lady and good Christian the Grandmother has a revelation and understands that it is not her life that needs salvation and hopefully for the Misfit one good deed deserves another and he will be able to change his course in life and become a man that looks to help instead of hurt the fellow