For a good half of my senior year, my English teacher made the class record stuff into a blog, saying that doing such will allow us to read them again someday. As I did with any liberal plans from new teachers (she was new), I thought it was just a waste of time, a fancy, short-termed whim. Well, it was short-termed whim, seeing how the blogging stopped on a January, but she was right about how one day I'll actually read it again.
They really brought back memories, heh. The papers I wrote are actually quite eloquent, probably more eloquent than how I write today (lots of credit from being an Engineering student, which requires almost no large-scale writing).
What really caught my attention, however, is this poem I wrote for class. It goes:
Salt of the World
O Lord, that I may live for Thee,
I'll be a grain of salt;
Though small in size and weight I be,
Great God I will exalt.
The world, just like a fresh, raw meat,
Can rot in open air;
I as the salt the world will meet--
Preserve it through my prayer.
Without the Word the world will taste
As bland as it could be,
But I as salt will make in haste
A taste God would agree.
Oh, what a useful tool for Thee
A salt is to mankind!
Through me the world will dance with glee
When salvation they will find.
It's a pretty well-made poem, but that's not why it caught my attention. That poem summarized my lifetime goal: to be a moral Christian example. Looking at it now, I was in the right track at that time. Right now, I think I've been taking some detours, at least if I see it in my definition of Christian morality in my senior year. Michigan changed a lot of my perspectives, and one of them was changing me from a ultra-conservative Christian to a pretty liberal one. I think it is a change for the better, but I really haven't been thinking about this goal of mine. I'll have to give it more thought during the little bit of break that's remaining.
