In the book, On Fire, John O’Leary is always encouraging us to “take off our mask” and really get to know each other. In my, My Journey paper, I could have dived deeper and “taken off my mask” in it to let people know what has really happened in my life. It has always been a hard topic to talk about, but as I have gotten older it has become easier to open up about. John O’Leary made it clear in On Fire by saying, “It’s time to embrace your story and to celebrate the amazing miracle of your life” (O 'Leary, Page 51). At the start of my 7th grade year things seemed to great and couldn’t get better until a Thursday night when my mom woke my older brother and myself up. My parents sat us both down in the living room and told us that we had to
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Something that I wish I would have done at the time of losing our house is to be straight forward with my friends and all of the other people in my life. By not doing this I lost a friend that I was friends with since I could remember. But with this happening my life and my family’s life could not be any better. I may have lost a friend, but I gained an even better one that day in school and we are still really good friends to this day. My parents are doing extremely well for themselves and have even brought up the topic of possible moving to a bigger house soon. John said, “Yet our scars from these experiences, when we learn from them, aren’t signs of weakness to be covered up, but symbols of strength to be celebrated” (O 'Leary, Page 51). The scar of losing our house 7 years ago is being celebrated by getting out of debit and moving to a better house. Looking at it now I see this being a part of God’s plan for my entire family and myself. I have learned how to spend money wisely and not to take what you have for granted. During this time, I made a relationship with something that I still have until this day. We both were going through basically the same situation, but she did not lose her house. We talked at school all of the time and after school late into the night. I believe that God had it planned out for us to find each other through these times and get through them
Something that I wish I would have done at the time of losing our house is to be straight forward with my friends and all of the other people in my life. By not doing this I lost a friend that I was friends with since I could remember. But with this happening my life and my family’s life could not be any better. I may have lost a friend, but I gained an even better one that day in school and we are still really good friends to this day. My parents are doing extremely well for themselves and have even brought up the topic of possible moving to a bigger house soon. John said, “Yet our scars from these experiences, when we learn from them, aren’t signs of weakness to be covered up, but symbols of strength to be celebrated” (O 'Leary, Page 51). The scar of losing our house 7 years ago is being celebrated by getting out of debit and moving to a better house. Looking at it now I see this being a part of God’s plan for my entire family and myself. I have learned how to spend money wisely and not to take what you have for granted. During this time, I made a relationship with something that I still have until this day. We both were going through basically the same situation, but she did not lose her house. We talked at school all of the time and after school late into the night. I believe that God had it planned out for us to find each other through these times and get through them