Prayer

Ernest Hemingway’s “Now I Lay Me” (1927) covers the effects of post traumatic stress disorder on Nick after he is wounded in the war. Nick suffers from some form of panic as his mind creates a severe terror after he is bombed in the night. Unable to sleep because he is afraid of dying, Nick instead chooses a form of self-care which relies heavily on his own memory of scenes from his life before the war, his religion and his favorite pre-war pastime. While it seems that Nick is coping with his…

The day was Monday, February 1, 2010. I left my house for work in the morning, and got on time as usual. The day seemed to progress as usual until I got a meeting request from my supervisor. I finished what I have started, and headed to the little conference room where the meeting was scheduled. I had never gotten such meeting requests from my boss. Our previous meetings have always been pre scheduled. So what is the agenda for this unscheduled meeting? My boss was already in the meeting room…

Since starting college, I’ve had to “grow up” in more ways than one. Although I had viewed myself as a pretty mature individual and thought I had the ability to cope with many issues or troubles. The transition into college has revealed a lot of things, and has changed my personal life and the relationships I have with others. My stressors, Family Life, Financial Concerns and School, have really put a test to my emotional and mental well-being. My first main stressor, Family Life, is one that…

For dinner my aunt had prepared corn beef and cabbage. After dinner, I helped her wash dishes. She said, “You’re a lot like your mother. I always said it was too bad she married a musician, who thought he had a gift for logic.” “He had some interesting ideas,” I said. “He used to hide his meanness behind his ideas. I knew she was in trouble when he convinced her to move into the city.” “What do you mean,” I asked? “He told her that by living with me in the woods, she would be inundated with…

“Even the most basic type of prayer is offensive to those who don’t want to pray. And meanwhile, some common prayers might be rejected by devout Christians as weak tea” (Tribune News Service).If students don't want to practice a basic type of religion or any other religion other than theirs they should have the choice to practice…

RARELY has obedience laid upon me so difficult a task as this of writing about prayer; for one reason, because I do not feel that God has given me either the power or the desire for it, besides which, during the last three months I have suffered from noises and a great weakness in my head that have made it painful for me to write even on necessary business. However, as I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible, my will submits with a good grace, although nature…

At the age of six (6) years old, I was saying but another name through my preference for a certain prayer. At this age I was already advancing through reading and writing. Every day, I prayed frequently a prayer dedicated to a saint, in my heart and that was, "St. Anthony pray for me," before and after kindergarten. It was the only prayer I knew would keep me safe when outside my home, especially against a boy in kindergarten class who often irritated me, by stealing my eraser. How I wish I got…

in whales at a time when a man named Booth had distanced himself from organized religion and started the Salvation Army, and the people of Whales were praying for a mighty move of God. Little did the people of Whales know that the answer to their prayer was already born but serving God was the furthest thing from the mind of Mr. & Mrs. Wigglesworth being very poor John Wigglesworth worked long hours just to provide for his wife and four children.…

Cultural engagement to me is going out to your communities and loving on the people. When they need water give them a drink, if they need food give something to eat, and if they need clothes give them something to wear. It is all about what Jesus said in Matthew 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.” (NKJV) It is not just presenting the Gospel in word only but living out the Gospel indeed. We need to be light bearers to our neighbors and show them the way of the one true God…

over me was indescribable. I knew what was going on, but was surrendered to the Spirit of God. My body was jerking, and I recall the evangelist walking around me and praying. I did not know what he was praying, but I knew I needed help. After more prayer, the evangelist reached down and said, "Spirit of performance, be gone!" and he lightly touched my forehead again. My body became completely still and the peace that passes understanding enveloped me, which is exactly what I had asked God to…