Janae KopetJanuary 17, 2016Adult Studies Seminar Block1
Kopet.Session1.Journal
As far back as I can remember, I have always had a desire to understand people and why
we do the things we do, to understand and evaluate the human condition. If I were to reflect on
an experience in my life that influenced me in this direction, I could go back to growing up
without a father and always having an awareness of how this affected my life, and the life of my
brother. I could go back to the years of spending time in Al-Anon meetings trying to understand
drug and alcohol abuse and why it had gripped my brother, and so many others, so tightly. I
could go back to when God reached down and got ahold of my heart and showed me a new
way of living, a new life to hope for, …show more content…
They sent a team of NICU nurses to fly our
granddaughter, Annelise, to the Children’s hospital at Stanford Medical Center where she spent
her eleven days of life before we had to say goodbye to her. Two granddaughters lost in a few
short months. Their parents, devastated and grieving.
Grief and loss has been, by far, the hardest thing we have ever walked through. There
are times that we have had to choose to believe in God’s word and His promises because all we
could see was utter devastation. II Corinthians 1:4 reminds us that God is, “the Father of
compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can
comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” This is what I
hope to make of my time at Colorado Christian University. To finish my degree in Psychology so
that I might be more equipped to comfort others with the comfort that we ourselves have
received from God. God is Good. He has proven that to us. Now I hope to serve Him in the way
that He has served us, and two remember those two little girl cousins that are in heaven and
already know more of God than we can
Kopet.Session1.Journal
As far back as I can remember, I have always had a desire to understand people and why
we do the things we do, to understand and evaluate the human condition. If I were to reflect on
an experience in my life that influenced me in this direction, I could go back to growing up
without a father and always having an awareness of how this affected my life, and the life of my
brother. I could go back to the years of spending time in Al-Anon meetings trying to understand
drug and alcohol abuse and why it had gripped my brother, and so many others, so tightly. I
could go back to when God reached down and got ahold of my heart and showed me a new
way of living, a new life to hope for, …show more content…
They sent a team of NICU nurses to fly our
granddaughter, Annelise, to the Children’s hospital at Stanford Medical Center where she spent
her eleven days of life before we had to say goodbye to her. Two granddaughters lost in a few
short months. Their parents, devastated and grieving.
Grief and loss has been, by far, the hardest thing we have ever walked through. There
are times that we have had to choose to believe in God’s word and His promises because all we
could see was utter devastation. II Corinthians 1:4 reminds us that God is, “the Father of
compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can
comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” This is what I
hope to make of my time at Colorado Christian University. To finish my degree in Psychology so
that I might be more equipped to comfort others with the comfort that we ourselves have
received from God. God is Good. He has proven that to us. Now I hope to serve Him in the way
that He has served us, and two remember those two little girl cousins that are in heaven and
already know more of God than we can