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Reflection To The Exodus Story

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Throughout the majority of my life I feel that my insecurities are what held me back and make my story relate to the Exodus story. Ever since I was young I was never the girl who had the most friends, someone who was very talkative, or someone who was the most social. I was always seen as the lonely girl who walked the halls by herself, or as the girl without friends. The reasoning behind this is, like today I am always stuck in my own head. I am enslaved by the thought and idea of what others think of me and how the world perceives me. Every day I would go to school and just go through the same motions, trying to get through one day after another. Hoping that the day would be better than the last. When my dad would drop me off at school he …show more content…

Ever since that day I finally opened up and my teammates are some of my best friends. Due to that day of opening up at practice I was able to open up elsewhere also, like school and in public. To this day I feel that my teammates will be my “forever friends” and although I cannot predict my future I really hope that this will stay true. In conclusion I feel my story reflects the Exodus story because like the Israelites I was once enslaved and felt like there was no escape. I feel that for each of the 9 movements of Exodus my story can relate to each. In the second movement the Israelites are enslaved to the Egyptians and like them I was enslaved to my fear. Although my enslavement was mental and not physical I still feel that I could understand what the Israelites were going through. In the third movement the Israelites call to freedom relates to me, when I was able to point out what I need to fix in my life and how I needed to escape my Egypt and my fear. Also in the sixth movement, murmurings and wanderings my fear of change related to the Israelites fear of change because in both parties we were afraid of changing what we knew. These are the reasons I believe that

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