Why Isn T God Like Eri Analysis

Andrea Palpant Diley in the start of her book focuses a lot on the concept of what I call a dependent child 's faith. She shares many stories from her childhood that shaped her life and the one about the hitchhiker really drew my attention. She about talked how embarrassed she was as her father preached to the young hitchhiker in the car. This reminded of a lot of times in my childhood when I would travel around with my grandmother. She always would find a person to preach to, wither we were in the clothing store or the gas station. And like Diley I would always feel so embarrassed, actually I still get embarrassed when my grandmother does this. I never thought of it as a small act service or a form of missionary work the way Diley reshaped it. Diley 's chapter “Why isn 't God Like …show more content…
As much as I read my bible I find at times I relate to matchbox twenty songs way more than I do to God. And theses are the things that make me question myself and my faith. I 'm in college now and for me this means everything changes, I need to take life more seriously, education more seriously and my faith more seriously. Everyday at Eastern to me is an opportunity to do these things. I know it sounds so typical for me to say that I grow in my faith here at Eastern, but in all honesty I do. I have to have strong faith that I 'm going to be able to pay for college, I do not have a job so that a lot of faith. Faith to me has always been an action, it is was something you acted on, it was psychical. I never really viewed it as being something that truly satisfies, the concept of being satisfied in knowing it will be alright. Diley and my experience so far at Eastern, really opened my eyes to many faults in my concept of faith. I realize that as much as I thought I was solid and complete in my concept of what faith and Christianity are, I 'm still just