Oct 25

 Today, we finished up our assignment given and (most groups) presented each of our contribution of our role analyzing Antijos by Julia Alvarez.

I learned a couple things, including more insight of what it's like in other, less affluent countries, in aspects of general living as well as how a woman feels being alone in a place like this. I also learned what "hullabaloo" meant through context in the story. The amount of caution women always have to exercise when alone and the nervousness that comes in a situation where they do end up alone is what impacted me. With this knowledge I plan to exercise my insight on the topic and have sympathy toward situations like this.

What I liked about the lesson was that we got an insight into the way a different country works and how different 3rd-world countries are compared to America. Of course we all knew of this to an extent, but it is a good reminder of how different America is compared to other countries. What I struggled with was reading the whole story and finding enough words that stuck out to me in time.

Today, I am feeling quite unfocused and some things could have been putting me down, but by turning to my spirit as often as possible, the Lord keeps me continually moving in the right direction the whole day as if He's always behind me pushing me forward. Each day there's nothing like getting to know the power of His resurrection and how easily it can keep me going through any situation. When it comes to experiencing the Lord through thick and thin, often we need to be put through valleys before we can appreciate the peak of a mountain.

"To know the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death." Phillipians 3:10