In a hospital there are hundreds of rooms with hundreds of patients that need something that could mean life or death. For example, 32 of the patients in this hospital, Angel’s Grace Memorial Hospital, desperately need a necessary organ or they will die in the next week. On average 21 patients a day die if they don’t get the organ they need, that means that most or all 32 patients at Angel’s Grace are praying for someone else to die so they can keep their organ and live. However, that is what the human race has come to today. Everyone is so selfish, except me. I have made peace with my fate. I first came to this hospital when I was a baby. My mother left me outside the ER. I know you’re probably picturing a loving goodbye in the rain and …show more content…
I slowly creep out of bed turning to the side where I slip my feet into small pink bunny slippers. These slippers were donated a while ago, so they don’t really fit anymore but I never complain because they are donations. The only objects I own are the ones donated to me, this christmas I got an Ipod and headphones which I use everyday. After finally standing up I put on the headphones and start playing loud rock music that gets me pumped up. I would stand there and dance until awake and energized. Soon after I walk out the door music still playing, and walk the halls while my head bobs to the beat of the …show more content…
Turns out she had a tumor,” he explained. The rest of the night seemed normal, but I sensed something different. The next day Dr. Warren performed another miracle. There was a boy whose heart was being run by a machine and somehow Dr. Warren fixed his heart. However, the weird thing was that soon after that another older man died in the hall because his heart gave out. Then next Dr. Warren brought a girl out of a coma, but after a few days a man took her place. Finally after thinking about it for a long time, I told Dr. Staci and Thomas during rounds, that I didn’t think this was coincidence. Of course, right away they shot me
In the novel Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, the main character is Richie Perry. At seventeen he graduated high school in Harlem, and he wanted to go to college, but his mother couldn’t afford to send him to college since she was an alcoholic. So he joined the army to escape his unfortunate future, but joining the army meant he had to leave his little brother Kenny, who saw him as a father figure since their father left when they were younger. Perry was sent to Vietnam and through his journey, he made lifelong bonds with many different people such as PeeWee, Monaco, and etc. Also in his journey, he suffers from mental and physical wounds.
9:00. ‘Great a full 10 hours of sleep.’ I think. I quickly take a shower and rush to do my chores before my mom asks me to do more. I rushed downstairs and stand in the door.
I wake up in a room full of liquor and 3 buff looking men. The worst thoughts go through my head and I realize where I am.
Imagine you have difficulty waking up, trying to fight the constant sensation of drowsiness with the little life you have left. When you wake, you struggle through the haze of confusion to finally realize that you are in the same monochromatic, secluded room you’ve been in for the past two months or possibly two years. No family in sight. No pets. No fireplace awaiting you.
Part One – Christian Worldview In today’s world it is easy to become enchanted by worldly things. The deceptions that Christian’s allow themselves to believe (i.e. just this once, it’s not going to hurt anyone, I can handle it, I can stop whenever I want, etc.) come directly from Satan. There was a time when hearing a curse word or seeing too much flesh in a movie would be embarrassing; now it appears to be the norm and most Christians do not even bat an eye at such things any more.
In 2015, 23,134 transplants were performed saving 23,134 lives of innocent individuals that had a bright future ahead of them. If ego was to take part and selfishness would run the world 23,134 people would have died this year and many
People are required to make ethical decisions every day. These decisions can greatly impact their future. What is important to some people may have little or no value to others. A person with a Christian worldview would base their ethical dilemma decision on their beliefs and the instructions that God’s word provides.
Before I discuss my experience at Grace Lutheran Church I feel it would be beneficial to explain my Church Background, so that you can better understand my outsider view of the Sunday morning worship Service I attended. I have been raised in the Baptist/Southern Baptist church my entire life. My parents are from South Carolina, which is also where I grew up, so our idea of Church has always been a small community with a very relaxed atmosphere. I stopped attending the Baptists church when I was 16. I chose to join Bent-tree Bible Fellowship, a non-denominational church.
Growing up Christianity had always been part of my life and there was no question about it. My family was christian and the culture that my parents grew up in was heavily religious. However, I personally never had a true connection to Christ at a young age. To me church was the place I went to answer questions in Sunday School and win prizes for it, and that was how I saw it for a long time. It was hard for me to see it has more than that and from the outside I may have looked like the kid had a true connection with Christ by the way I talked in front of the church when my class presented, or the fact that I was able to answer most if not all the questions correctly.
According to the National Center for PTSD, 15 out of every 100 Vietnam War Veterans was diagnosed with PTSD. In the Vietnam War many of the soldiers had to deal with trauma from the things that they had witnessed. The signs of trauma are great, and they affected the soldiers greatly. It is not always evident at first, but can show up in the later years. War is making Americans go crazy.
Organ donation is currently the only successful way of saving the lives of patients with organ failure and other diseases that require a new organ altogether. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services there is currently 122,566 patients both actively and passively on the transplant list. This number will continue to increase, in fact, every ten minutes another person is added to the list. Unfortunately, twenty-two of these people die while waiting for an organ on a daily basis. Each day, about eighty Americans receive a lifesaving organ transplant.
Do you think she silenced the room? I imagine some sat in disbelief, perhaps others in confusion and yet, I'm sure, every lady there must have been challenged by her words. I was challenged, by my Pastor's wife, as she shared a story about a speaker at a ministers wives conference she had recently attended. The speaker stood up and boldly announced that none of them believed in God's word and were Bible illiterate.
Exhausted, toiling hard dawn to dusk, ceaselessly hunting enrolment to a decent US university sat I. The panic if my skull exploded prior to my enrolment obliged me to soothe stress watching: “Jesus: The Movie”. Anxiety of the course of my destiny strolled over my head. Suddenly, a gleam of the screen glowed into a solid shape. Jesus Christ himself!!
My twelve years of Catholic schooling have taught me many life lessons. The most predominant is how God loves each and every one of us as His children. I experienced this first hand as I volunteered at The Church of the Ascension Vacation Bible School. There I learned that Jesus has a deep love for all His children. The name of the program where I volunteered was called K4J, which means Kids For Jesus.
It's never easy to sacrifice anything you care about, that's why people find it so difficult to sacrifice. For anybody that decided to give up something precious, they did it for the benefit of another person. To me, sacrifice is a multitude of things. It could range from giving up your time for the homeless to helping others or donating to charities. We sacrifice daily in return we learn a valuable lesson or we uncover even more fascinating things about ourselves.