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Guiding Question for Philosophy Statement: WHAT UNITES A GROUP OF PEOPLE????

People are united by human nature. We all laugh, we all cry, we all have dreams and we are always seeking answers. Inside all of us is the desire to belong to something of greater importance. In all of us there is that passion to be loved, to be needed, and to fulfill something greater outside ourselves. 

Philosophy Statement:  I Believe Life is a meaningless void which can only be filled by God. Through Him a simple lifetime can be transformed into something of meaning which lasts for eternity. As a human being, I ultimately want to serve God by loving people and becoming the person God designed me to be. 

Verse: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11 

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**The Call**

With what horrible crime upon my soul am I now passing to judgment Walking continually in a shadow, groping darkly within my own soul Or gazing through a medium that saddened the whole world In the gathered terrors of a lifetime

I did not wish to live what was not life, it lives too fast I wished to live deliberately I wanted to open myself But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined For the shadow of reality mixed itself with good and befuddled the world These days I don't know who to trust I must learn to reawaken and keep myself awake Because of my name, Because I cannot have another in my life media type="youtube" key="f_HMY-5l0gI" height="344" width="425" In eternity there is indeed something true Full of light and reflections Kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared That may seem to blacken a life so pure When thoughts of the last bitter hour come like a blight over my spirit I went forth under the open sky and caught hold of life I wanted the light of God to shade myself from the sunshine of eternity For within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign Here I feel nothing can befall me in life I know now He is my only hope Every morning is a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity I will stand here for humanity because truth can stand by itself

Though nobody is with me, Let this not be This symbol beneath which I have lived, and die is but one of a thousand What is true for me in my private heart is true for all men Our souls our immortal Lose no time, live deliberately Light the universe with your admonishing smile You are not unlovable Every hour and season will yield its tribute of delight It’s the song that’s inside of my soul Which has grown into a hope In the arms of the angels I have light in my soul for which I have long sought In the distant line of the horizon I am not alone and unacknowledged I am my own star I am part or particle of God

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