Maryknoll: A Short Story

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My Maryknoll assignment is on mercy. I was at my cousin’s house with my Dad, step­brother,step­sister, sister, and my older step­sister. My brother fell on top of me trying to play around.Ends up me almost drowning in a pool. my brother is 14 at the time and 155 pounds crushing an60 pound 8 year old. He was holding onto me out of breath and tired. He was expecting me to beable to hold him. He was definitely wrong. My cousin decided to play around, he was around 6at the time. He jumped on me with a kiddie fishing net and he hit me in the head with the metalof his fishing net and hurt me really bad. He a life jacket so if he couldn’t swim he would be fine.Me, I was in the same condition as my step­brother holding on to be and I trying to swim …show more content…
Me in pain and breathing really hard I couldn’t look straight without seeing multipledepictions of a my dad’s face.I said aloud “GOD I would pray for 1 hour, not a second longer and not a second shorter!” Mystep­sister a non­believer of our FATHER snickered and giggled. She was 12 and an atheist Iwas a great believer and I loved him. When I was in my room me praying she just walked bysnickering. I was offended yet I knew she is a victim of “Original Sin”, just like all of us. Shehad no grace. I am so sorry that she doesn’t believe in God. I hope she does someday, it wouldthe light of my day because I would see her in heaven with all of us.My condition at that time was horrible. I thanked God everyday since the accident for mercyand saving my life. I’ve been haunted by that ever since. I read the Bible now, almost everyday. Iread it because it makes me feel protected by God. I hope no one has to be in that position like Idid it’s truly haunting. I used to have horrible nightmares ever about it, until it stopped 3 yearsago. They were horrible, now I don’t think about it anymore and I don’t want

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