Thursday, September 11, 2008

John Lewis's definition

John Lewis’s definition of community is from the moment someone meets someone else and there is a similarity between two they become part of the same community. I would change that because when I think of a community I think of two things. One is family. The other is the people that have to live in a neighborhood with. The only thing I would change about his definition of community is that I would make my community a place where close friends and family live together.
The way service and community go with each other is without a community someone couldn’t perform services. The only way the community could grow is to have service done in the community. Without service like mowing the lawn, painting the house and helping other people with their problems the community may not run efficiently and has the possibilities of failing.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

river trip

The additional thoughts that I obtained when thinking back on the river trip would most likely be a division in the crowd mainly. The whole reson that we went on this trip was to meet new people and I saw a division on one side there were football plaers to the other there was eveyone else. The football players stayed inside their little comfort zone me included the reason I think primarily it was about is because we had to leave that night. I have heard from the upper classmen that the students really get to know each other that night when they talk. The football players never got the chance to socialize with anybody besides the other football players. Because they had to take their own bus to and from the location of the river trip.
Now the challenge on the other hand was much harder to think about. Im going to be totally and brutally honest with you. When I was a little kid my parents put my life up to god I had a hole in my heart and he gave me a miracle and fixed it right there on the spot. But since then I have been trying so hard to give my whole life to jesus and surrender everything to him. Because everytime I did, it felt like I was getting stepped on by everyone one example was that my exgirlfriend cheated on me. And it eas like the snowball effect when one thing goes wrong everything goes down hill. But everytime I started feeling like the whole world was not on my shoulders I would try it again and yet again the devil was staring me in the face saying “you shouldn’t have done that now im coming twice as hard.” But yet we come to today I am a born again christian and I have put all my faith and everything in God and I want to keep it that way no matter how hard it might be at sometimes. Because he is the way and when His sone Jesus Christ comes back I want to be on His side. I want to live eternally with the creator of the lord it is the greatest gift he has given us a decision. My decision is to surrender everything to him.