Response to Sinners

     Earlier today, I witnessed Pastor Jonathan Edwards preach the most frightening sermons ever. As a very religious Puritan, and not missing a day of church in my life, I felt really doomed and scared. After about five minutes into Pastor Edwards's sermon, I started to actually think that God wanted to crush me, and when I heard him say "The pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow." I was scared more than ever.  I worship my God and have given my life to him since I was just a little boy.  Hearing the terms "tormented in hell", "miserable creatures", and "furnace" really frightened me.  This also makes me wonder if Pastor Edwards has done something cruel and unholy, and he feels doomed, and now he's trying to take it out on me and my congregation.

     At the time of the sermon, I was scared.  I wanted to get out of the church.  I felt like I had been a failure at life by the way he was saying how we were going to be thrown into a "pit" or "furnace."  I felt like a sense of evilness was casted out in my soul, and I needed to get out of there.  I was so close to leaving, but instead when he said the part about how we, "deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked,..." I just stopped listening.  It was too much for me to handle.  Pastor Edwards's sermon got me confused about why God would do this to me, but now looking back at what happened earlier today, I know that the God I worship is a loving God and would never do this, especially according to the words in the Bible.  So I think that Pastor Edwards is just really scared, and was trying to make me and the rest of my congregation feel bad, and that he definitely is crazy.  Fortunately, I'm going to the other church on the other side of town town!

I handle major writing assignments or projects by getting a head start and trying to get them done sooner rather than later.  I have done projects at the last minute, but I like to get ahead of things and start them earlier if I can.  I am pretty confident in my writing ability, and I feel like I have a pretty solid vocabulary and sentence structure.  Some of my strengths consist of coming up with good storyline's and outlines, and reading other books and learning how those authors write and using it in my writing, but my weaknesses follow that up with not being able to come up with good or enough details.  My view on writing is that it's a vital thing for college.  I also enjoy it, depending on what I write about.  I hope that I can get better on it, and improve on my details when I have to write a story or essay.

I don't have any questions over the portolio assignment.  However, I do have a few apprehensions for it--I want to do the best I can on it, and I want to do above average and get something out of it.  The unit I am anticipating the most is the Modernism, Post-Modernism, & The 21st century, so I can learn about how far we have came from the past.  Honestly, it is hard to pick a unit I'm not anticipating, but if I had to pick one it would be the Women's Literature & A Changing Society, just because I don't feel that hyped up learning about Women facing struggles in American history.  The one that I feel like I'll do good on is the Poetry Unit, because I have recent experience from my Sophomore year.  The one I am worried about is the Puritan unit, because it seems like it relates to history; my worst subject.