I could never understand how she did it all by herself; however, she managed to keep her family together. To her, family was the most important thing in her life, and that’s why my mother is very important to me. With my mother coming from a very religious family, she became a very religious woman, and made sure that her children knew God as well. I can remember back when I was a little girl, my mother made us attend all church activities. Not only did we go to church services, we also attended Sunday school, Bible school, Bible study, and Revivals.
She kept us all in line with a firm but loving hand. I will always remember spirited biblical discussions, arguments really, between my Grandmother, Great Grandmother and Mr. Comer, the blind man that befriended my Grandmother. Their stories very so vivid that it seemed they actually knew Jesus. That’s because they did, and they made sure all of us did also. They were always talking to themselves I thought, but were really speaking God.
As Laurel class president it is my responsibility to reach out to all the young women in my class that are less active and try to get them to return to church. When I started talking about this with Bishop Bood he counseled me to reach out to these girls and let them know that my counselors and I were thinking about them and to invite them to come to church. When I looked at my list I recognized one of the girls names, and I didn’t know her, but I knew of her and based on what I had heard, she didn’t exactly live the gospel in her daily life. When I brought this up to bishop, he asked me if I thought it was right
My life has been shaped through my mother’s and sisters’ example in living the gospel. My mother’s knowledge of the scriptures and application of them into her life developed the basis of how I live today. My eldest sister’s involvement in uplifting church teachings helped me to develop a closer relationship with God through Christ. I’d like to state the most obvious observation that I’ve made about spiritual formation; that is that I will always need to be seeking for ways to nurture my personal spirituality throughout my life. I had never been challenged to look deeper into the text.
I do this by observing the Ten Commandments and fulfilling The Golden Rule of “treat everyone how I would like to be treated”. Even though I have had 12 years of Catechism teaching, I still want to have greater knowledge of the teachings of Christ and the Church as well as myself. I really liked participating in the Church activities and advertising for it by telling my friends to come along to things such as youth group with me. I show my devotion to my yearning for knowledge as well my as my loyalty to the Church by walking to Mass on Sundays since I did not bring my car to college. Something that a Practical Catholic should also be is a dutiful and productive citizen.
All the four women joined together to form The Joy Luck Club. They all met at the First Chinese Baptist Church during bible study class as a way to improve their English. The joy luck club sole purpose is to instill wisdom into their daughters so they can be independent and have their own perspective on life as an American. The story starts with Jing-mei “June” Woo, is asked to replace her mother at the joy luck club. I choose Jing-mei to be my character to write on even though she did not develop much personally, but the effect that the Joy Luck Club had on her were significant and it also has to do with her attitude throughout the story.
She sat high goals for her life. Everyone who knew her noticed her hard work ethic. The pastor of her church, father Jambren Kovin, kept her encouraged and influenced her as much as he could. As a young lady she accompanied her mother on trips to visit the elderly, the sick and the poor. Due to the death of her father her ability to help others was more challenging.
Throughout history, religion has expected a lot from women. Since colonial times, religion and culture never asked, but expected, women to be well-mannered wives and mothers. Obedience to their husbands, along with the suppression of anger has always been the ‘role’ of the woman. Their job also consisted of leading their families to church as well as convincing their loved ones to live a good, Christian life in the eyes of God. As Elizabeth Fox-Genovese stated in the text Religion and Women in America, they were expected to “live a Christian life in what clearly was not a Christian world.” However, at this time, women viewed all of these duties as a religious “calling.” The Puritans of the 1600s strongly believed each person held responsibility for their own souls, but since worshipping occurred to a male God, the role of natural leaders of the churches belonged to men.
She went to an African- American church and embraced its spiritual beliefs. She took pride in herself and her work. She took care of her neighbors, often using the holistic medicine scoffed at by the more “refined” middle class. She never wanted to be wealthy. She simply wanted to take care of herself and her family.
At the end I was still going to heaven when I died. What else did I need to do for me to go heaven? I already was a good girl; I always went to church with my dad, I read my bible every day. I was good with my family and friends and I never killed anyone or did anything bad like that. Nunez/2 When I was like 13 I went to a retreat from my church in there I was confronted with a lot of things about my life and how I was.