Guiding Light

couldn't live without. Vast miles of ocean spread out across the globe. Various creations swimming and growing, only by the power that He can provide. It is an overflow of grace, offering love to people who cannot get it from anywhere else. It is light blue by the shore, yet it seems endless. Ocean as far as the eye can see, comparing to an everlasting love, a love that will never end no matter how far it strays or how vast it becomes. The sky is high, as I look up to it, I am reminded of the…

The weather was fair and the last rays from the sun where casting across the sky. Billy was walking in the park at night when he heard branches snapping in the bushes. Suddenly a massive creature lunged out at him slashing its claws… Billy awoke with a yelp. ‘‘just a dream,’’ he said to himself. It was a nice saturday morning in his cozy little home located in newton kansas. He ate breakfast (which consisted of pancakes and scrambled eggs), got dressed, brushed his teeth and then turned on the…

It was the morning of September the 22th in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee. The tree leaves was just starting to change their colors. I was soon to be married to the love of my life and I was overwhelmed with joy, in thirty minutes to an hour we will finally be husband and wife. Boy how I was wrong! The whole wedding and reception didn’t take almost an hour. It was a small wedding, just close friends and intermediate family only. At most we had twenty five to thirty people…

Leinster approaches the notion of ‘othering’ through the element, vision, and its related elements, light and darkness. According to Dr. Stephen E. Palmer’s textbook Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology, “vision relies on three basic elements, adaptation, sensitivity, and perception”(5). Eyes adapt to various levels of light in order to sense and perceive any figures within the environment. As light decreases, the eyes adapt up to a point until the range of sensitivity drops to a level that…

I am Scout, I can't move or talk. My brother is Jem, he too can't move or talk. We are soap. We were carved yesterday by Boo Radley. Yesterday, Boo took us out of the upstairs bathroom and brought us downstairs into the kitchen. He grabbed some knives out of the cupboard and took us toward the living room rocking chair. He sat and started to carve me first. I am, of course, made of soap so the process wasn't painful. Boo slowly curved the knife while stopping now and then to recall his memory of…

Almost a year ago, when I was 15, my house was broken into. My parents had given me permission to stay home from school because I was feeling extremely stressed. Instead of going to school, I was to spend the day working from home. Since I hadn’t slept much the night before, I decided to take a quick nap before studying. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to rest for long. I woke up to the sounds of glass breaking and unfamiliar voices yelling across my house. At first I thought it was just a bad…

Cars come and go. People stumble in. People stumble out. I wait longer and longer for my dad. Slowly turning over each individual page of my book, till I’m finally done. As the time ticks by I can glimpse the sun’s light rising over the country side. The smooth glazing of light slowly circling around the horizon amazes me. How does it do that? More people stumble in. More people stumble out. The stench of alcohol and smoke on people as they stumble out is excruciating. The chemicals of the…

The bright yellow light of the sunlight beamed right into my eyes. Half blinded I adjusted to my surroundings. I sat up and looked around, I fixed my tousled hair. Looking up at Devon and Anthony past asleep I knew I was up early. My phone had no signal and was at the point of dying. I turned around and see danny wide awake. He smiled big and said goodmorning . We greeted each other and gave a tight hug. We both got up and began to see what was going to happen at our last day in Wisconsin. We…

unbearable. The room I was in was pitch black, But it seemed that the walls were painted plain white, with no windows and no light. There was a wooden floor stained and old it looked as if tomato juice was spilled on the floor...or that’s what I hoped it was. The room I was in seemed small but had an empty feel in it. I see a bed and a bookcase in the room. But I can’t see a light switch of any kind. I finally got the nerve to knock on the door, to see if I can get anybody’s attention. Nothing I…

going to happen, I just know it. ‘How did I end up here?’ I think to myself. I cannot remember anything. The room is pitch black. I warily feel my surroundings, cautious of what is around me. ‘How did I end up here?’ I reiterate. Suddenly the room lights up and a scrawny man with a dour disposition appears. His gaping eyes stare blankly at me. “What’s your problem?” I ask. No response from the man. “Can you at least tell me what’s going on?” I question. Still no words from the stolid man. I…