Once there was a girl named Grace, who came from a very poor Christian family. It was hard for her family to get the basic needs such as food, clean water to drink or bath, payment for rent, and clothes. Life was hard for them, but still her parents continue to pray and believe that God will provide for them. Grace gave up on believing that God will change their life because they have been while praying for life change and nothing have happened. She wanted to be like other people so much, her mother noticed that wanted something that much will make her do something that she will regret later. So her mother talked to her and said that she need wait on God. The way her mother believed that God will answer their prayers made Grace to start praying
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First of all, we know that not everyone get the opportunity to go study in a university, and those who study in America universities somehow have the same life experiences or lifestyle. So when an international students enters to this new stage of life, they become very afraid because they realize that they are different from the rest of the people around them. The first tendency will be to try to fit in which will be to completely copy the new culture lifestyle or isolate themselves from the people around them. Both of these tendencies are normal but either of them is healthy because there is always a reason why people are putted in a certain place. Every single person is called to live in a community. However, copying others is the way to live the community and isolating yourself is not the way to live either. Instead being yourself and share your stories is the healthy way to live in the community. Therefore, as an international student I urge my fellows internationals students to write or share their stories to the campuses that they are in because there is power in storytelling. As Gray once said storytelling “its potentially vivid presentation, may present a strategy for reaching and at least partially informing those who are not yet motivated to deeply process a health message” (Gray, 263). The internet have help in informing people about what is happening in different part of
First of all, we know that not everyone get the opportunity to go study in a university, and those who study in America universities somehow have the same life experiences or lifestyle. So when an international students enters to this new stage of life, they become very afraid because they realize that they are different from the rest of the people around them. The first tendency will be to try to fit in which will be to completely copy the new culture lifestyle or isolate themselves from the people around them. Both of these tendencies are normal but either of them is healthy because there is always a reason why people are putted in a certain place. Every single person is called to live in a community. However, copying others is the way to live the community and isolating yourself is not the way to live either. Instead being yourself and share your stories is the healthy way to live in the community. Therefore, as an international student I urge my fellows internationals students to write or share their stories to the campuses that they are in because there is power in storytelling. As Gray once said storytelling “its potentially vivid presentation, may present a strategy for reaching and at least partially informing those who are not yet motivated to deeply process a health message” (Gray, 263). The internet have help in informing people about what is happening in different part of