Personal Narrative: God's Not Dead

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Have you ever felt alone? Melissa Joan Hart, the actor who played Grace Wesley in God’s Not Dead 2, stated in the movie, “I would rather stand with God and be judged by the world than stand with the world and be judged by God” (“God’s Not Dead”). If you have faith in something, even if it cannot be see, you will never be alone. Religions and higher beings of all kinds can help almost anyone have courage and reliance again. Because of personal experience, I believe in the untouchable.
Whenever I hear, someone say, “If you cannot see it, hear it, feel it, it is not real.” All I can do is remember the Polar Express. When Tom Hanks, the actor who played the conductor, says, “Sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see” (“The Polar Express”). So when people say they cannot
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My skin still chilled from the early spring air. I could feel a lump in my throat forming. I saw one of my friends and gave her a big hug.
“Hey girly!” She says with a crack in her voice.
Her eyes were red, along with her nose. We walked together through all of his photos. It was becoming harder to breath and I felt a knot in my stomach. My family proceeds down the aisle, leaving my friend back, the shiny casket reflecting the lights from above us. A few more steps and I would have to face what I did not want to see. Before I had the chance to look, I felt something glide through my hand. Even if I could not truly see him, or feel him, I knew he was there. He was there with me, to lead the way.
Many times, I have questioned why God is not there when I truly need him. Not until I watched the movie, God’s Not Dead 2, that I realized something. Walter Wesley told Grace, “When you are going through something really hard, the teacher is always quiet during the test” (“God’s Not Dead”). This made so much sense, you may feel alone while going through a situation but he is there, quietly

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