A Touch of God Reigns Out
Kendall Humphrey
10/8/14
English/Expository Writing
A Touch of God Reigns Out It’s simply astounding how within a small period of time, and with one small decision, that in a blink of an eye your whole life can either fall and crumble or rise and be built. I was in study hall scrolling through YouTube and under the “recommended” was a video called “If I was the devil”. Thinking nothing of it, just out of pure curiosity, I clicked on it. This is the first moment in my life that I ever heard anything about God or the Devil and trembled at truth. More simply, in all purity and realness, I understood that “the truth hurts”. As humans, it’s our initial instinct to be prideful and deem ourselves above all else. Just as an ant pales in comparison to the sole of a shoe. We too are nothing in the grand scheme of things even side by side an atom of our creator.
Just as society proclaims, I too was automatically assigned to be a specific belief and religion, mine just so happened to be Christianity. Problematically, my DNA doesn’t necessarily mean I follow the patterns of those who proceeded me. Yes, I heard, I understood, I sung, I praised, and yes I even prayed, but honestly, I never learned…and most of all, I’ve never had the heart. However, my lack of heart didn’t deprive me from doing my best to trace the very lines my parents set for me. In my world, drugs, sex, jail, and atheism already made early attempts to grasp me in middle school. It was the foundation of God and the love of my friends and family that surrounded me that allowed me to stray from drugs, cussing, anger, and eventually sex. Nevertheless don’t let this first paragraph fool you. I wasn’t a dove amongst a swarm of crows and ravens. Fortunately He it’s said that the righteous will live by faith, even if they’re blind to it.
God? God is hard to define on paper. Instead I’d like to think of him as the paper, actually no, more of the paper machine that created the paper itself, no, no, that’s
10/8/14
English/Expository Writing
A Touch of God Reigns Out It’s simply astounding how within a small period of time, and with one small decision, that in a blink of an eye your whole life can either fall and crumble or rise and be built. I was in study hall scrolling through YouTube and under the “recommended” was a video called “If I was the devil”. Thinking nothing of it, just out of pure curiosity, I clicked on it. This is the first moment in my life that I ever heard anything about God or the Devil and trembled at truth. More simply, in all purity and realness, I understood that “the truth hurts”. As humans, it’s our initial instinct to be prideful and deem ourselves above all else. Just as an ant pales in comparison to the sole of a shoe. We too are nothing in the grand scheme of things even side by side an atom of our creator.
Just as society proclaims, I too was automatically assigned to be a specific belief and religion, mine just so happened to be Christianity. Problematically, my DNA doesn’t necessarily mean I follow the patterns of those who proceeded me. Yes, I heard, I understood, I sung, I praised, and yes I even prayed, but honestly, I never learned…and most of all, I’ve never had the heart. However, my lack of heart didn’t deprive me from doing my best to trace the very lines my parents set for me. In my world, drugs, sex, jail, and atheism already made early attempts to grasp me in middle school. It was the foundation of God and the love of my friends and family that surrounded me that allowed me to stray from drugs, cussing, anger, and eventually sex. Nevertheless don’t let this first paragraph fool you. I wasn’t a dove amongst a swarm of crows and ravens. Fortunately He it’s said that the righteous will live by faith, even if they’re blind to it.
God? God is hard to define on paper. Instead I’d like to think of him as the paper, actually no, more of the paper machine that created the paper itself, no, no, that’s