Saturday, January 21, 2012

Write about an encounter with a religious person.Can anyone please tell me what to write on this topic? I find this quite challenging.

It sounds like that the nature of the prompt is a
narrative one.  It is asking you to describe your experiences with encountering someone
who is religious.  If you really wanted to make this assignment worthwhile, I would
arrange an individual appointment with someone who has devoted their life to religious
service.  Conducting an interview or discussion with a priest, rabbi, cleric, or someone
of this capacity would be an excellent starting point here.  Asking them questions about
what they consider to be the meaning of life, the purpose of existence, why suffering is
present in the world, how does one navigate through the field of sin, and/ or how we
know God, as a force, exists could reveal some really powerful answers.   Being able to
ask someone who is a religious servant these questions could make for a great writing
task and could also open new doors of perception in your own life.  It would really be a
sight to behold if you were able to conduct separate interviews with religious people
from different faiths and backgrounds and compare these points of view.  If you approach
this in the right way, this assignment could be more than a grade, more than a writing
task.  It could actually be one of those endeavors that could change your life or alter
your thought process about being in the world.

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