| 3-22-04 5thgrade
Want
to be a Christian?
Does your life feel empty, like there’s nobody to
comfort you when there’s nobody else around but you and the special person I’m
about to tell you about? Is death a fear you have? Are you going through hard times? Do
you feel like nobody loves you a lot? I know someone who loves everyone equally. He loves
everyone so much that He died for us all. He loves everyone so much that we can’t
even think of all that love! He loves you so much and He’s so powerful, He can help
you with the things I mentioned AND MORE!! His wonderful name is Jesus Christ the
Savior of us all! Sound great? Let’s go on.
There is a way to defeat the fear of death. Many
people believe that when you die it is the complete end and you are gone completely and
forever or come back as animals. That is totally a false statement. It’s a lie from
the devil! I’ll get to him later.
The truth is that when you die you go to Heaven or Hell depending on if you are born again
or not. If you are, you go to a wonderful, beautiful place called Heaven. Heaven has
grapes of plenty and streets of gold! It has wonderful gorgeous gems and pearls around
itself. This place is where the angels live. They worship God there who also lives there
shining WAY brighter than the sun! There is no sin or crying, boredom or pain
there! God wipes away all your tears there. It’s a perfect, awesome, beautiful place
in Heaven and we all have the chance to live there forever but, we must be born again!
"Born again?" you may ask. "What does that mean?" Let me tell you.
Born again doesn’t mean that you go back in your
Mom’s belly. It means that you have to accept Jesus as your personal Savior and a
friend. It means that you have a personal relationship with God and you love Him. It means
that you believe what I’m about to tell you and understand. God is in three forms:
The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. God sent His one and only son to come and teach
us His ways and die for us on the cross. Sin is the things we do wrong and it’s so
bad, the punishment is death! Instead of us being killed, Jesus took our place!
That’s how much He loves us! God took away that punishment and when we ask
forgiveness from Him, because He’s in charge, He can take away our sins again! God is
so great!
These are the things you must do to have everlasting
life with God in Heaven and not with the terrible, pure-evil Satan (the Devil) in Hell
(the place where you go if you are not born again). This is Christianity. If you’d
like to have this wonderful life as a Christian, follow the steps. You’d want to
continue being a Christian with help from the Bible and a good church because church will
help you with your relationship with God and other Christians, and the Bible will help
with that and everything else. This life
isn’t perfect, but it’s worth it!!
Cheerios
Cathy Cacciatore
5-11-06
Mrs. A.
Lit. 7
One morning when it was early and dark, my
Dad woke me up. I was very groggy and mad at him for pulling the covers off and yelling,
“Wake Up! Time to smell the doughnuts!!!” I stomped into the kitchen to find
that the only cereal left was icky Cheerios. The 1st bite was okay, but the
next was yummy…
Then everything was dark. I couldn’t
get up. Soon, I heard voices and squeaks around me. Wait, not squeaks, meows. They were
meowing. “Good night miss!” A couple seconds later, I could see again and a
Cheerio with a tail, strawberry nose, ears, face and whiskers was in front of me. He was
staring happily with a blindfold in his paw.
I was amazed to see such a big Cheerio
despite the fact it was also a live, talking cat! “Good night!” another one
said, “You’re in Cheerriopia (say
Cheer-i-o-pi-a), the mother country Cherry Land wasn’t so cheery when we refused to
buy their milk due to the lack of cat nip factories being constructed in Cheery Land.
Therefore we moved here.” “Wow! You sure use advanced sentences.” “Yes,
we know that.” They all said to me. Then I remembered the blindfold in one kitty’s
paw. “Why are you holding that blindfold?” I asked. “I just took it off
you. We put it on you when you were unconscious so you wouldn’t see us, and we’d
be a surprise,” one said. “You’re clever, but wait.” I starred at them
with a confused look. “Unconscious?” They explained a scientific phenomenon
about my bowl of cereal. They explained to me that it became a wormhole, and how it sucked
me into their dimension. They saw me on the ground, gathered around, and waited for me to
wake up. To close the lecture, they added, “And by the way, we’re an advanced
species due to our knowledge.” That made sense except for one thing…why do they
say “Good night” when I just woke up at 7:00am? I found this peculiar and asked them.
“It’s simply because this dimension is 12 hours ahead of yours,” they
replied. I was amazed by them.
“By the way, my name is Percy!”
said the excited one with the blindfold. “Say, would you like to come to my box?”
This wasn’t a familiar question to me so I found it puzzling. He could see that and
told me it was his home. With great interest, I exclaimed, “I’d be delighted to!”
Therefore, I went to his “box” which was filled with clean laundry and dead
mice. “I collect mice and catch food for we can not use milk.” “Why?”
“That is for another time.” His small box was indeed a home for cats. There was
grass to chew on and birds to watch. The little guy seemed like he had almost everything…except
the milk and catnip. I could see he had more sorrow to him than what was easy for one of
our species to understand.
BANG! BOOM! The box almost collapsed on me.
Thank God I moved away just in time. The cat ran out of the house so I followed him. We
ran down the streets of Cheerios for Cats, occasionally jumping over fences and ducking to
avoid the large cat tree branches. “Quicker! Quicker!” Percy cried as we ran
into a small hole. The hole was very black inside and led to a small cave with many
tunnels. In the cave were many wounded and hungry Cheerio cats. They were licking
themselves and helping each other. “This is our sanctuary from the Cocopups of Cherry
Land like the one we just ran from.
I knew now that this was a bigger conflict
than I thought. I asked, “What is going on?” The silence stopped and
conversations about me arose. They could now tell that I was a foreigner. They knew that
no citizen of Cheerios for Cats was unaware of the troubles that I was to soon find out.
To be continued…
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