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Personal Narrative: My Summer Program At Dillard

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The average person hears the word memoir and believe deeply that it is solely their memory, when in actuality it is the recalling of thoughts through influence. When I started to write this paper, I immediately thought of my graduation in May 2015. But it was hard for me to distinguish what I truly thought and what I had heard others say. So I went on to think of the summer program at Dillard through Emerging Scholars June 2015. Here, I thought this would be great, because there was no family around to tell me how great it was, but then I thought about all the other things that students and faculty had said and that made me indecisive on whether or not I wanted to continue on that path. I then decided that I should write about my first semester …show more content…

How beautiful it was, all the beautiful people that were there and how much sacrifice my friends and family made. The truth is my graduation day started out clear and sunny. The white tents lined the oaks of Audubon Park and every spectator thought it was a wedding. The food, the music, the guest, and then the storm. It rained and stormed, the wind blew, and water rose. We had to keep moving to higher ground and yet, no one left, those who were supposed to be there, were present, those who failed to attend, gave me a new outlook on the value one places on relationships. After the storm was over, the sun shone again, and though the park was a mess, the event continued in the class the was …show more content…

I was confused as how the two had gotten so misunderstood. This was the first time in my life that I felt no one understood me and that no one could help. I felt despised, rejected and abandoned but I found a solace in Christ Jesus. My graduation day was a foreshadowing of what was to come. Even now my life can be compared to the recent tornados in Louisiana, some things in people it touched and some things it did not. Now it’s after the storm, I’ve gotten new glasses now I call them rose gold. I still look at the world through the kingdom because it was Job who said when I have been tried I shall come forth as pure gold. So I stand on the scriptures that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, fear of the Lord brings wisdom but humility comes before honor, greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world, and ye shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water who brings forth fruit in its season who’s leaves do not wither in drought and whatsoever you do shall prosper. These were the most remarkable memoirs that I could hope to put as a treasure in the earth’s investment. To know that God will keep you in peace if you keep your mind on Him and that he is always near and he touches the hearts of men to show favor on you, to know that no matter what is coming against you he is

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