Throughout life people wander without knowing their true purpose or how they affected people around them. They don’t get to know themselves through and through. A lot of people don’t understand why or how they become important. It is the main reason why I believe everyone should take a theology course. The moral reasoning and perspective behind the course changes the way things are seen and interpreted. Michael Himes is a man of many words. He expressed himself exquisitely in the last lecture. He expressed that a way to be a whole human being is giving ourselves to others. The lecture had implacable meaning. In the last lecture, Himes stated experience is important. Experience and tradition is a huge part in becoming yourself and giving
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We need to ask the right question to gain access to the person. People’s stories are important. Stories are experiences. My life story is growing up with a father in the military and a bed ridden mother. People don’t know that I had to grow up quickly to take care of my siblings because they didn’t have anyone even though I was the youngest. People don’t realize that I lost my mother suddenly when I was fifteen and had a father that work ungodly hours to support my rocky family. People don’t realize that I don’t smile often because things trigger memories that I want to suppress. But I don’t because I know they made who I am today. They don’t know or understand until they ask the right question, and at the point they do, it makes me feel better. It makes me feel as if someone cares and wants a connection. Once again, Character, Choices & Communities states that, stories “challenge, influence and even transform us. A well-told tale can pierce us to the heart, give us a fresh insight on what the right moral choice might be, or provide the encouragement or motivation necessary to make that choice.” Even if it is your own story that you are listening to, you can’t help but feel that it’s necessary to take some sort of action or thought. The thought might be how you could’ve change the past or how things have led up to the point in your life good or bad. Stories are a way we express ourselves and some people hide their stories more than others. It’s like Jesus and the story of Emmaus we read in class. We have to see the person and want to understand their story before we can truly understand the person. In Emmaus, we have to choose our rabbi. We have to choose who we are going to let guide us through their stories and how we interpret them. So, in everyday life, people need to choose who they’re going to listen to and how they are going to interpret the stories that are
We need to ask the right question to gain access to the person. People’s stories are important. Stories are experiences. My life story is growing up with a father in the military and a bed ridden mother. People don’t know that I had to grow up quickly to take care of my siblings because they didn’t have anyone even though I was the youngest. People don’t realize that I lost my mother suddenly when I was fifteen and had a father that work ungodly hours to support my rocky family. People don’t realize that I don’t smile often because things trigger memories that I want to suppress. But I don’t because I know they made who I am today. They don’t know or understand until they ask the right question, and at the point they do, it makes me feel better. It makes me feel as if someone cares and wants a connection. Once again, Character, Choices & Communities states that, stories “challenge, influence and even transform us. A well-told tale can pierce us to the heart, give us a fresh insight on what the right moral choice might be, or provide the encouragement or motivation necessary to make that choice.” Even if it is your own story that you are listening to, you can’t help but feel that it’s necessary to take some sort of action or thought. The thought might be how you could’ve change the past or how things have led up to the point in your life good or bad. Stories are a way we express ourselves and some people hide their stories more than others. It’s like Jesus and the story of Emmaus we read in class. We have to see the person and want to understand their story before we can truly understand the person. In Emmaus, we have to choose our rabbi. We have to choose who we are going to let guide us through their stories and how we interpret them. So, in everyday life, people need to choose who they’re going to listen to and how they are going to interpret the stories that are