Graveyard experience

"I went to the Lakeview, Roselawn and Tiger Flowers cemetery complex for this fieldtrip, and I stayed there for at least 40 minutes."

 

 

Before visiting the Cemetery I was kind of creped out. I was thinking what could I possibly do here and I kind of thought it was really creepy. After being at the cemetery I had a change of heart. After sitting there for a while really had the chance to gather my thoughts. I am not going to lie at first I just sat there wondering what I was doing there, but after a while I started to take my thinking to a higher level. I started to think of how my Grandpa died and about all the happy times I had with him. I thought back to my childhood and remembered all the times growing up to last year we spent time together. Part of the time I was depressed about it, but towards the end of the forty minutes there I really started to be happy with God blessing him into my life. I thought about the book we read “A Grief Observed” and realized how sad it would be to lose someone you spent every day with. I thought of the times it would be hard to go through these circumstances. Then I started to think about how lucky you are to have a person so long in your life. This made me realize the importance of relationships.

After reading this book it really made me open my eyes to a lot. In class I was wondering why we have to go to a grave. I thought honestly at first this was a dumb idea. I did not seem to see the point of it. I just thought we were suppose to think of suffering, but when I started to read the chapters Lewis made some really good points that stood out to me.  First, he talks about suffering. He pretty much is saying that everyone is going to suffer at some time. We need to be comfortable talking about suffering because we as humans are all going to go through it. After reading this book I think I have an open mind to engage what Lewis was really trying to teach me. For a Christian stand point I feel like I was able to relate to him. I never really liked reading, but when I feel like I can relate it to things I am going through I actually started to enjoy it. I really feel like I am learning more just about Christianity and opening my mind to new ideas in this class than any of my classes so far.