March 5, 2007

3 levels of belief:
-Believing without questions
-A stage of terror- afraid to believe, but afraid not to
- truth and story work together

In most people's lives they all go through phases like the idea of Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, mermaids, genies, and many more things. When I first found out that Santa was not real it was DEVI STATING. I was on the bus going to school during my Kindergarten year. There was a boy by the name of Danny Matovich who always sat in the front of the bus. It was Danny who yelled, "Hey Emily, you do know that Santa isn't real?" I didn't want to believe it, but when I got to school and asked my classmates about it, they confirmed that Santa was not real. Also in kindergarten, I found out that Barney was not real and wasn't cool. I sure had a rough start in school.
On the next level of belief, there have been many times where I am afraid to believe something and also afraid not to. For example, when my grandpa died, I didn't want to believe it. He seemed like the healthiest 90 year old man I had ever known. In fact, he traveled back from Montana to Illinois only a week before he died. He was also playing a game of 13 when his body went into shock. After he died, the doctors couldn't believe what could have gone wrong, so they did an autopsy. When the autopsy results came back we found out that grandpa had cancer in many parts of his body. This made me believe that it was Grandpa Ray's time to go. If he would have survived the shock, he would have had a long road of health problems ahead. God bless.
Finally, truth and story. When I think of truth and story, the only thing that comes to mind are all those "dad's fishing tales." You know, those stories where the fish's head was the size of a boulder, they were longer than the arm span of Big Foot, and weighed more than a semi-truck....(We've all heard them!!!!)