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The Alpha, Omega-Personal Narrative Analysis

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In this question of the essay I began to think about God, and my mind is just blown away with all the things that I can say about God. It is not an easy question, and more profound than all the rest. I found myself asking a question on top of a question. “How do you describe a God that is so many things; a God that is too great to describe (Via Analogi)?” when the words are endless.Thus, after praying and giving it some thought, I decided to go with my own perception of “The Alpha, Omega (beginning and the end),” as follows:

God, Creator of the heavens and earth, my only source of being, in whom I greatly trust and believe. (Theism). As I look at myself in the mirror, I cannot help but think about how wonderfully made I am; from the image …show more content…

My nose; perfectly designed, molded, and created with a systematic sense of breath and smell. 9 of 14
My ears; oh so meaningful, an organ to listen and hear from God; as well as to balance.

My skin; the largest living, breathing organism on the body, so colorful and used to protect and secure vital and sensitive organs from danger.

My mouth; the most powerful of them all, created to make known the laws and teachings of God, to breath life into others and not death by what departs, and to consume food for nourishment.

Although, I could go further in demonstrating all that God has created from just our bodies alone but, time will not permit.

Nevertheless, when I first came to class at CTS, theoretically I had very little concept about God for my imaginary inherited retrospect. The God that I imagined then, was not the same God from the likeness of what looks back at me from the mirror. The God that I imagined was white, blue eye’d, with straight hair and male etc., pretty much everything that I am …show more content…

Unfortunately, my father passed away when I was eleven years old. From my inheritance, I use to love the notion, and comfort of referring to God as a “male, father, he or him figure,” perhaps because I substituted and replaced the void of my biological father, with God as “father;” when I began to learn more about God, around that age. Yet, now that I have learned better, as a result of this class, I agree that God should not be referred to in that manner, sometimes I tend to still refer to God inclusively out of habit. “When you know better, you

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