Dwell

traditions in the way that many Israeli Jews of the time did. Even in Parent’s Day, the narrator’s ex-wife denies the narrator’s right to speak much about his hardships, family, and childhood, because this collective identity of the “new Jew” does not dwell in past…

The Sami people, being so diverse and widespread, stretch across many different cultural backdrops, making pinning down the context within which they dwell complicated at best. Their nomadic lifestyle makes this even more of a challenge. Furthermore, their preference of extreme climates and wilderness settings questions the existence of any social context at all, other than the reindeer they herd. In fact, until the liberalization instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980’s, the Russian…

their grandson Lorenzo. Before leaving William penned this poem: My friends the time is growing nigh, When I, to you, must say good-bye ‘twill be my last farewell; I soon shall join a noble band, And journey from my native land, Far in the west to dwell. Do you not know the time has come For scattered saints to gather home? My god I must obey; Then gladly will I say adieu To all my friends and country, too- I have no wish to stay How gladly I will hasten there, Those blessings how I long…

His people. Genesis 3:8 sees God dwelling with man in the garden of Eden. In Exodus 29, due to the separation caused by the fall, God commands the construction of the tabernacle, saying “I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the alter ... I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God”(Exodus 29:45). 1 Kings 8:10 and 14 describes the shift from the tabernacle to the temple, before Ezekiel 10:18-19 details God’s leaving the temple due to Israel’s sin. It is also during this…

demon is defined? I believed the same, I was afraid of the dark Silly me believed the light would drive him off. But mind you I was young, naïve even How could I have known the real demon? Now that I am older, I have met him in person For now he dwells inside me No horns, no teeth, still terrifies me. He feeds off my fears, my insecurities help him grow One day, I am afraid, he will devour me whole. Cause he is growing in the darkness, The darkness of my mind, While I desperately try…

Everyone seems to be seeking closure about something. After any type of tragedy the first thing people will seek is how to become at peace with what has happened to them and how their lives have changed. But closure is not something that is given, it is something that one must fight for. It is something that is only found amongst those who have the courage to move forward and somehow find the light in every day, amidst the darkness that surrounds them. The only people who truly have a sense of…

God’s presence was initially given to individual people. But starting from Abraham, the presence is given to the nations through Abraham. When God showed himself to the people of Israel, He is going to first dwell among the people through the tabernacle in Exod. 25:8. a. God dwelling in the Tabernacle The tabernacle, which is the same word “dwelling” in John 1:14. It was a portable sanctuary representing God’s presence with his people. Stuart even says that “This verse is the simplest and…

Shake Me Down We are born into the world not knowing how to react, feel, or express emotion. We learn to love our mothers or our favorite toy and to hate the feel of diaper rash or loud noises. Why is it that when we grow older we learn to turn love in passion and hate into pure loathing and rage? Is it because hate, a natural feeling, like love, or is it an acquired characteristic that we learn from our surrounding. Perhaps it’s because love and hate is ultimately a feeling that evolves…

The knowledge I have on existentialism, is 20th century philosophy, which is the analysis of existence and the real meaning of humans existing in the world. However; when I have thoughts about existentialism, I come across my philosophy, when life comes upon struggle, why do people keep pushing and not just give up. To me, struggle is motivation to never giving up. Everyone has a different feel for pushing through struggles. In Woolf’s poem, “Death of a Moth”, she emphasizes the true meaning of…

Aquinas for Armchair Theologians examines the nature of evil in chapter 3, “Why Is There Evil? Do Humans Have Free Will?”. Aquinas answers the first question by stating, “…that God does not make evil. God only makes good. Evil, in a sense, does not exist at all- at least it is not a substance or a thing” (Renick, p.33). The author also uses the Daisy Theory and Hitler to make the claim “privation of the good” is evil. However, when looking at what the Bible has written about evil it states, “For…