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| Hey Everybody! We got to read a whole bunch of devotional poems this week. I was really looking forward to reading them, but still had a really difficult time interpreting them.  The older that they are it seems the harder time I have reading them because the words and language is so different. Obviously that makes sense. I guess that I just don't like reading the poem and looking every 10th word up in the dictionary or something. I feel somehow like that takes all of the fun out of it, but I'm understanding the poem much more the second time around when I'm doing this so that's good. I still have a long way to go in interpreting everything though. Thank you all for keeping me in your prayers. I will continue praying for you guys too!!  God bless!! | | |
| Hey Everybody! I enjoyed the poems that we were assigned to read this week much more than I like the ones we were assigned last week. I still had a difficult time reading, understanding, and interpreting all of them though. As I expressed in the discussion board I think that I liked "The Fish" poem by Elizabeth Bishop the most. This one seriously got a hold of my heart much more than I was anticipating. Elizabeth brought the fish to so much life and really made me feel like I was right there with her looking at this poor fish that she was describing. I couldn't believe how much reading this poem about this poor little fish made me re-think going fishing on my dad's boat this summer. I've always had some sort of a sensitivity towards animals and things, but after reading this poem my sensitivity towards fish is even stronger. I don't even want to go fishing even if I'm going to be throwing the fish back now. It seems much more cruel to go fishing just for fun instead of for food now. This poem was written really well, and it made me think a lot, but there are still some things that I don't understand about it and the other poems we had to read this week. Hopefully that will change in time. Please continue praying for me. God bless!! | | |
| Hello again Everyone! The poems that we had to read this week really didn't resonate with me all that much because I had a really hard time understanding what each of them were really trying to say all of the time. The one that I could appreciate the most was, "God's Grandeur" because I knew it was expressing how great God is, and it seemed like it was easier to understand than the other poems. I can't figure out what makes it so hard for me to understand the rest of these poems but it has something to do with all of the symbolism and things. Hopefully I'll understand better why I can't understand them so well now in the near future. Please keep me in your prayers. Thank you and God bless!! | | |
| Hello again Everyone! The poems that we had to read for the "focused reading" this week didn't really touch me in too many ways this week. They weren't hard to understand, but they didn't really grip my heart at all. One of the optional poems for our reading I liked a lot though. I expressed this on the discussion boards. I know the reason that I like that poem so much is because I am such a hopeless romantic. I guess that I dream of being in that kind of a loving romantic relationship one day. It seems so special. I have a boyfriend and we've been together for quite awhile, but we're obviously not married yet, and our relationship or love doesn't come close to what was expressed in this poem. It really makes me think a lot. Had the woman who wrote this just been with her husband for a lot longer, or were they just made for each other more, or was he just that much more fabulous, or was God just that much more at the center of their relationship? I wish I knew. That poem is so beautiful. I hope we'll be reading more like it in the future.. | | |
| Hey Everybody! It took me forever to read the Frederick Douglass narrative because I had a lot of trouble accessing the online library at first, but then it was just like forever long; so, simply reading it took me a long time too. Oh' how all the trouble was worth it though. I've always had an interest in American Slavery and it's history, but I think that I learned more while ready this narrative than at any other time in my 23 years of life. Frederick Douglass is such a man of courage, strength, honor, dignity, and depth. He is such an honorable man. I have a huge and very deep amount of respect for him after reading his whole story. It is both very encouraging and challenging. It encourages and challenges me on so many different levels. I had no idea that I was so clueless to so many of the real things that were happening in the south then. It's so hard to just imagine or believe. I know that it's all true though. It's just very heart wrenching. Frederick Douglass is obviously a big over comer though, and that is very inspiring. I've overcome a lot; however, I still have very many hurdles ahead and I know that if Frederick Douglass could overcome everything that He did, I can overcome what I have ahead of me as well. What a great blessing it is to have his narrative to read... | | |
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