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Made in God's Image

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The image that I have of God is of one that has always been there throughout my life. He has not changed, in comparison I am the one who has changed. I have had my ups and downs, happy and painful, in which sometimes I feel that God was not there. But from it, I do believe that he has been there all my life. He is a God that is generous, a loving God, a God that accepts all. He is a patient God, in where if ever I do find myself in a difficult time I know that he will be there to pick me up and carry me. In these past 20 years the image of God that is in me has changed slim to none. One of the happiest moments in my life was when my daughter Liliana was born. I remember that I would shake like a small little kid moments before she was born. I would ask God what do I do? This being my first time as a father, a young man and honestly not knowing what to do. In that moment was when I felt the presence of God, of a God that to me was incarnated in flesh and blood through what was my baby daughter. A God that made his presence known to me and had told me that it was going to be ok. He was going to guide me in all I would encounter with this new baby girl. It seems that summing up one the most painful moments I have had to experience in my life brings to mind having to lose all my closest loved ones. Those being my youngest brother, my oldest brother, my father, and my mother-in-law. From the four which I have mentioned, I have felt God’s presence in the deaths of my youngest brother and in the death of my mother-in-law. These two people, so ever kind always telling us till the time of their death to not cry, that they will finally be at peace, this is when I truly felt the presence of God, even in these most of darkest of times. One of the most significant gifts that God has given me is having been given the opportunity to have been born within a very Catholic family. This which from a very beginning greatly influenced my love to God, an

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