...Lover Calls us to the Things of this World 1 Lover Calls us to the Things of this World Heather Waltman ENG125: Introduction to Literature Lover Calls us to the Things of this World 2 Lover Calls us to the Things of this World The poem I am choosing is Love Call us to the Things of this World by Richard Wilbur. This poem speaks of a man or woman who woke up from a night’s sleep. In this story I feel it is saying that no matter where life takes you one can do anything. In Wilbuer’s poem he gives us an insight into a spiritual world. He talks about how love can make you do crazy things for some one. There are all kinds of love when it comes to the spiritual part of love. This whole poem is talking about love and things that inter wind with the poem. The pulleys awake the man or women not a lot just enough for them to realize that they did not want to wake up. This is a feeling that God wanted them to know not to be scared and that he will guide them through anything and will help them as long as they want him too. God also wants them to know not to run from him. Lover Calls us to the Things of this World 3 In Wilbuer’s third section he talks about how a man or women is ready to accept what has for them...
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...On Why Love Is A Promise That God Expects Us To Keep…And How He Knows That We Can Have you heard that ” Love is a promise, not a feeling”? Hard to believe when the world about you is filled with songs that say the opposite these days. “Whatever feels right at the moment” is what you hear most often. But when does a broken heart ever “feel” right? When does a “broken” conscience ever let you sleep really peacefully without having to do something distracting to make it go away? Entertainment, addictions, even the approval of the those around you who aren’t really looking through what you’re doing will not eventually make up for what’s missing: real love. The kind of love that only God has made us to want and need in order to feel whole. This love is deep and abiding, encompassing the real passion that its poor substitute tries to get along without in this world. It is relentless in its pursuit of our heart and all the distractions and the false relationships we heap up between us and it show that we cannot get along without it. It won’t let us go in spite of our bad behavior. Why? Because real love is a promise, not a feeling. God created us to express love that way. Expressing anything less, no matter what temporary heights you reach, robs everyone, including yourself. You see, God, made us to be highly motivated to want the promise much more than just the feeling alone. It is the only way to make the whole thing last and get every last best drop of those precious feelings...
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...Today, the world evolves around influences that take over the hearts and minds of many people. The seven deadly vices of envy, vainglory, avarice, anger, gluttony, lust and sloth each contain their very own set of powers within lives. These deadly vices continue to pull us away from a relationship with God. In my life, sloth has made me resist the demands of love for those around me. To overcome sloth, we must paint a path forward by finding a way to healing and wholeness to deliver us from this sin. In the contemporary culture, slothful people delay relationships with God due to the unwillingness to love those around them with the action of escaping reality. By applying the virtue of perseverance, they can fill that empty place in their hearts...
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...are the contents of consciousness, the things, qualities, relationships, events, thoughts, images, memories, fantasies, feelings, acts, and so on, which we experience. Phenomenology is an attempt to allow these experiences to speak to us, to reveal themselves to us, so we might describe them in as unbiased a fashion as possible. If you've been studying experimental psychology, this might seem like another way of talking about being objective. In experimental psychology, as in science generally, we try to get rid of our nasty subjectivity and see things as they truly are. But the phenomenologist would suggest that you can't get rid of subjectivity, no matter how hard you try. The very attempt to be scientific means approaching things from a certain viewpoint -- the scientific viewpoint. You can't get rid of subjectivity because it isn't something separate from objectivity at all. This inter-connectedness of subject and object is called intentionality. This method has been used to study different emotions, psychopathologies, things like separation, loneliness, and solidarity, the artistic experience, the religious experience, silence and speech, perception and behavior, and so on. Existentialism just takes this method and asks the big question: What is it to be human? You could say that the essence of humanity -- the thing that we all share, and makes us distinct from anything else in the world -- is our lack of essence, our "no-thing-ness," our freedom. We cannot be captured...
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...developed in the course of the semester? The first thing I would like to say is that the word 'charity' is from the Greek charis, meaning grace or divine gift, and the Latin caritas, meaning dearness, affection or loving kindness. In Christian tradition, charity means unlimited loving-kindness toward all others. Charity is acts of benevolence and caring both within, but especially outside of one’s own social and economic group. This act of benevolence and caring is particularly directed toward a person of a lower social or economic class. Throughout my readings I learned that Christians believe that God’s love and generosity towards humanity moves and inspires us to love and be generous in our response. Charity is not an optional extra, but an essential component of faith. Jesus taught that to love God and to love neighbor are the greatest commandments and that our neighbor is not just someone local to us they can exist anywhere in the world. My favorite story was that of the Good Samaritan. Jesus made clear that our neighbor may be someone on the other side of the world, who is not ‘one of us’ but different. Because of our common humanity and we are each created and loved by God we cannot allow anyone to go without what is needed for a dignified life. From this class, one of the most important values that changed for me was my perception of love. It made me ask myself the question what is love? I remember a time when "I love you" was the hardest phrase to say to the person...
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...thankful for everything you have done for us on this day, in our past, and what you will do for us concerning our future. We lift you up and exalt your Holy Name. We magnify your Holy Name. To God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit, all the Glory be given unto you. We thank you for our lives, our children, our jobs, our homes, the material things you have created and given us. We thank you for your love and we thank you that we are Your friends if we do what you command us to do. Hallejuah, You no longer call us servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, You have called us your friends, for everything that you have learned from your Father, you have made known to us. We thank you Jesus. We thank you for always making sure our needs are taking care of. It always look like we are not going to make it but your Word says, you know what we need before we ask for it, your Word says, don’t worry about our life, what we will eat, what we will drink, don’t worry about our bodies and what we will wear. Dad your word says, for you know the amount of hairs on our head, if you know that surely you know all of our needs and desires. I thank You Dad, that you have provided these things. As a father it is your obligation to make sure we have the basic needs of life just like a natural parent so I thank you that just like a natural child doesn’t have to go to their parents for basic needs, I thank you that you have provided these things unto us. You said don’t worry about tomorrow...
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...Redith Vance Liberty University Online Everyman Thesis: Death is something that not all of us sit and think about. Nor is it something we are ever truly prepared for. So in this play, when Death came knocking – Everyman was not prepared for what he was about to go through. I. Introduction II. Plot Summary III. Summary of the Allegorical Characters IV. The Author’s Understanding of Death V. Conclusion The English Play Everyman is one of the most used morality plays around. The anonymous author has really captured the meaning of death and how it can not be escaped, and it is not something we should fear. We should humbly embrace our death to meet our glorious maker. Everyman realizes that he can not pay “Death” any amount of money to give him more time on Earth. He should bravely take the journey to meet God, and accept what will be. His heavenly father is calling for him, and now he has to stand for judgement. Everyman is met in the beginning of the play by Death, whom God sends to collect Everyman. Once he learns of his journey he must take, he is told that he is allowed to bring anyone who will make the trip with him along. He meets Fellowship walking down he road, and Fellowship promises not to leave him until his dying day. He tells him he will do whatever Everyman needs. Then when he learns about the journey, he says that nothing in the world would make him take that journey and leaves. Then he meets Kindred and Cousin, whom what to...
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...UNITY FLAME INVOCATION In the name of the Christ, In the name of the I AM that I AM, I call forth and invoke the full power and the full gathered momentum of the Flame of Unity. I ask that this action be applied to the entire planet and all who live there on. I AM calling for the Unity Flame to consume completely, totally and utterly any and all misuses of consciousnesses in any way, but especially those that are generated, by virtue of claiming that there are differences between people, between conditions; and seeing them instead as all coming from the same wonderful source, and one day to return to that same wonderful fountain of light and love, peace and power. Let God’s Will be done! Let God’s S Will be done! Let God’s Will be done! Amen INVOCATION TO END SUPRESSION OF WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST Oh Great and Holy Mother of us all, Divine One, Who holds us all, not only in the palm of Her hand, but the softest place in Her heart. I come to You this day, entreating and invoking Your direct aide and assistance in ending something on earth, which I find to be offensive and very painful to You. Oh Dear Mother, won’t You help us to overturn this terrible custom of suppression of Your own daughters, especially in the area of the Middle East, where barbaric customs are still continuing till this day. Oh Dear One, I need not remind You of these things, for You are She, who is feeling every one of them directly on Your own body. So I only want to let you know that I...
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...THEO 201-B39 Biblical Worldview Essay As we look back on history we can see that human beings have made great strides as well as suffered many setbacks in our development of fundamental doctrines and/or beliefs by which we live and view the world. These foundational beliefs have provided the framework for which all civilizations preserve, cooperate, and govern their way of life. Certainly throughout history, the spread of Christian theology and doctrine has been influential in establishing and developing a deeply rooted theistic and biblical worldview foundation; thus being the center of much debate. In light of the various views within Christian theology, we will focus specifically on doctrine that is foundational to the Christian faith: The belief the God is actively involved in His creation. Furthermore, we will examine how this belief (doctrine) affects the way we interact with people in a chosen vocation. Through Bible Scriptures and Daniel Akin’s textbook A Theology for the Church, we will show evidence to support this doctrine, identify meaningful connections between Scripture and our call to work (vocation), and apply this evidence to specific scenarios within Christian ministry. In traditional Christian theology the belief that God is actively involved in His creation is known as providence. According to the textbook, “the doctrine of God’s providence is related to the doctrine of creation…Millard Erickson compares creation and providence by calling creation “God’s...
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...soul to those who you love. It means to spend sleepless nights when the kids are sick, or teaching them to talk, walk, and eventually to run down the streets in front of your house. Being a mom means a new life with many challenges. In my life my mother does all these things and more. She is the embodiment of love and kindness in the world and without her my life would never be the same. She is my role model and everyday I strive to accomplish what she has, because I know that she loves every day of life even...
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...the city Vigan. He was the cutest and the most… haha lol just kidding. Okay here’s the real one. My life wasn’t that easy. I always got bullied in school and always be the last one to be chosen in all the activities. I think that my classmates hate me. It’s true but there’s this guy who can accept who am I, the name is Warren Jay Parada. He was my best friend since the last summer for maybe how long? Ohm… 7 months? Yeah well he was the happiest person I’ve met yet, he had the most incurable pain. Why? Well you’ll know this in the next chapter. So Let’s go back to the story… I always got bullied it’s true and the one started it was my so called “FRIEND”, Mr. Rei Christian Presto. Oh, what a nice name but wait it’s the exact opposite of the attitude, personalities, and the face! And all other things. Well he was best friend actually, but since October 2013 he changed. He was insecure! Backstabbing me and teasing me. At that that time I was so annoyed! He was the most irksome person ever. REVENGE was my first option but I remembered something. Weak people revenge, strong people forgive and smart people forget. And the next things that happened? Ohhh I’ve already forgotten sorry hahaha. The only thing I remembered was that, I didn’t...
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...Dianna McWilliams Brian Walker WR115 05 1 February 2014 Friends Call Family] When I look at the whole picture of my life thus far, I often think there are so many times in my life that I could not have survived without my friends who I call family. There are those who teach me and those who walk with me through hardship and joy. I believe all humans have these people in their lives but maybe with a different name for them. There’s the forever friend’s, the ones that remain in my heart and have for many years. These are the women who I have gone several years without contact with, then comes that day we reconnect, and it’s like we never loss touch. These are the friends that when you talk to them there is the same love and respect you have always felt for them. These are friends that I have known for a lifetime and we share a special bond that cannot be understood or replaced even as our worlds are so far apart. We remain always friends There is another kind of friendship, friends in recovery. There are a few in which I can say we have true respect, trust and a common path we walk together. They are honest and loyal friends both men and women. I trust them with my deepest secrets, my fears, my joy and my struggles. These are the friends that will tell me the truth not sugar coat my ideas about life. They are the ones I have coffee with or a small dinner party, we laugh about things that life throws at us that most people cannot understand. We live by principals and walk a...
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...Liberal Arts education and a changing time Today, an education is deemed necessary to get a good paying job, at least that is what our parents told us growing up. Although, our parents failed to mention the most important part, an education is more than going to school to get a job that pays well, it is where you find your place in the world, where some find lifelong friends, and many find what they love in life. With all of the new technological advancements going on around us, it seems that with all that change, education is also evolving. Back when only high class men attended universities, the middle class moderate never had a chance to get a higher education. Things like, “How quickly do i want to achieve my degree?” And “What do i want to major in?” Were not topics of conversation, but that is not the case in this modern world. Now a days, there are hundreds of Vocational “training” schools popping up what seems to be everyday. They are career specific schools, with little or no emphasis on the humanities. They are broadcast frequently on our television commercials with catchy slogans and songs, “Get your degree online in less than 10 months” and “Don’t wait! call now for a quick, easy and affordable college degree!” Are all of these readily accessible “training schools” really helping our society flourish? Or are they having a negative effect on the future of our country? But I must debate that college is a place of development, and should not be a school of fast paced...
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...Kannon Manis English Comp II Tues/Thurs 11:00 May 9, 2012 Research Paper Imagine A World without Imagination Thesis: In the poem “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”, Richard Wilbur illustrates the fact that life is nearly unbearable without the use of imagination. Essay Map: The bleak and depressive theme of this poem exposes the poet’s struggles with finding meaning in his own life, reflects the stability of an objective view of reality rather than a subjective view, and provides an excellent example of the tricks that the right brain is capable of playing on the mind as a whole. I. Wilbur’s Search for Meaning in Life Is Reflected by His Writings A. The poem is written in a style that is quite unusual compared to Wilbur’s other literary works. B. The only positive outlook on life is found while the speaker is still asleep. C. He uses such harsh words as “rape” and “gallows” to make a point about the brutality of everyday life. D. His mixed feelings about life itself are exposed by absurd juxtapositions like “bitter/love” and “thieves/nuns”. E. He is able to find meaning by embracing his imagination as a part of life, and living according to that reality. II. Achieving an Objective View of Reality is a Healthy Practice A. Objective reality, or objectivity, is defined by the World English Dictionary as a worldview existing independently of perception or an individual’s conceptions. B. An objective view of reality is...
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... real world. But is modern technology really doing us harm? And are we missing out on a lot of important stuff when we hide behind our screens and use a mouse as our mouthpiece? These are some of the important question that arise from reading Jonathan Franzen’s essay, “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” from 2011. The 51-year-old author puts our daily internet routines into perspective and forces us to think critically about what we are doing online. But he beats around the bush for a while before he starts presenting his actual message. He thus starts out sharing a personal experience of getting a new smartphone and uses this as a starting point for voicing his concerns. Jonathan Franzen is aware of the danger of scaring off those young readers who might be fed up with older people complaining about the youth of today, “Very probably, you’re sick to death of hearing social media disrespected by cranky 51-year-olds” (ll. 140-142). He therefore catches this young audience’s attention by comparing his relationship to his outdated smartphone to a relationship of romantic nature. He uses familiar expressions like “trust issues”, “accountability issues” and having “outgrown the relationship”. In this way, he seeks to keep in eye level with potential young readers who will almost certainly find the comparison amusing. He then chooses to contrast the simple world of...
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