December 2002

Everyone has many challenges to face and decisions to make in life. How they deal with these challenges and decisions they make will determine what type of person they will become and their course of life. The choices I plan to make can determine my future very highly. The obstacles I endure daily can sometimes discourage me, but I know I 'm working toward a good cause. There are personality traits and qualities I plan to reform and some I want to acquire. My decisions will reflect the career…

Bell.Session1.Journal Anger, hurt, despair, sadness, and even terror. All feelings I have felt in the past year, for what seemed to last forever. Although it has been a rollercoaster, the past year of my life has taught me more than my entire life put together. If I had to pick a single event that shaped me for my education here at Colorado Christian University, it would most definitely be getting kicked out of my home in June of this year. Now, this isn’t your typical “troubled teen gets kicked…

“The day in the life of the Cracker Barrel Waitress” Arlington, Texas - Three servers from the local Cracker Barrel know all the tips and tricks to getting the best tips and staying on top of the game when it comes to serving. Angelique Ochoa has been a server for just under a year and believe that it is her bubbling personality that gives her the edge in getting tips from her customers. “If you are rude to them and act like you don’t care about the customers, I guarantee that you would be…

The song “Coming Home” by Sigma and Rita Ora aired on November 5th, 2015. This song is about a group of teenager trying to explain to the people who even if they are gone for so long they can always go home to their loved one. However they will encounter many obstacles stay in their way to find the place they could call home. They are out there trying to fight the battle to get back the life they once had and they would not stop until they get it back. Therefore, they decided to go and figure a…

There is a very famous quote, that I don’t remember who wrote it, that said “Home is where the heart is”, but is that true. I think that is kind of true, but every human being has a different meaning for home, like everyone has a different one for life, we all have had our difference experiences and went through different things. Home can be many things, it can be a place with memories of our childhood, it can also be a simple building filled with rooms to stayed for a while, or it can be a…

The most important aspect about my life that I believe needed to be changed in order for me to succeed in accomplishing my goals is my time management. For so many years I’ve struggled with being able to get to places on time. I learned that once I actually started to acknowledge and care about my bad habit was the only way I would be willing to change it. Working on my time management was hard but not nearly impossible. I had to change my outlook on certain things so that my mindset would be…

“There are things so sad, they can never be washed away by tears.” - Obi Hajime Have you ever thought of how painful it would be to lose someone that has greatly impacted you and meant a lot to you? Have you thought of all the joyful memories you’ve been through with them? And all the miserable and distressing times when you both just wanted to give up? Both Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe have gone through this traumatic experience and conveyed their feelings through writing. You may be…

When I first heard other people sharing from a top table or the body of the hall about their spiritual awakening, I didn’t believe them. I wanted to quiz them on it so that I could catch them out. I thought they were just repeating parrot fashion what they had heard other people sharing so that they would appear clever. Then I heard a woman sharing about hers who previously I had met, chatted to a wee bit and heard sharing from the body of the hall about how she was struggling to stay sober and…

The sun was fading west as he headed home. Oliver’s breathing remained steady as he broke into a sprint. As he finished the final kilometre of his run, he felt the wind rushing against him, as if challenging him to go faster. His body became a machine, with each step deliberately calibrated to maximize his velocity. Reaching his destination, a new song began playing on his phone: “Ride” by Twenty One Pilots. The words resounded in his mind: “We have a list of people that we would take, a bullet…

Forgive But Don’t Forget Forgiveness, needed by the ones who offend but can only be given to by the ones who are offended. In Judith Guest novel Ordinary People forgiveness is needed throughout by major characters and minor ones too. Guest shows that forgiveness is needed from other before you can forgive yourself through the main character Conrad. He thinks he made an unforgivable mistakes and blames himself for the result of it but he can find forgiveness through the help of a ‘ doctor,…