3rd Blog : )


1.) -Trying to decide who the audience of my research paper will be is a really hard question for me, because I believe my topic and its results should be heard my everyone, young and old. But, if I had to choose one specific group to really reach through my paper it would be college age people, or students, like myself. I have chosen this age group because I understand them the best, and I feel like I can relate my research to what they go through in their daily lives.

- I believe that I can make my topic timely, in the fact that I can take my research and relate it directly to what is happening in the life of a college student. I want to be able to pinpoint the benefits of living a healthy spiritual life, and what it means to be spiritually healthy.

- I am a Christian and I believe that in researching and delving deeper into what it means to be truly spiritually healthy is just another way to spread the word of God and tell others of God's amazing and merciful love for them. This research has also taught me things I had not known about be a spiritually healthy, so it is a way for me to learn more and grow in God. Its pretty awesome : )

2.) In my research I have a couple different types of sources, books, websites, and interviews. I interviewed my Pastor and his wife, who both have degrees in seminary, and they gave amazing interviews with a lot of biblical backup and reference to other well known theologians. I also interviewed some of the strong Christians in my church and they gave amazing interviews also, but their interviews were more about what they felt.
I have been amazed and saddened by all the sites that go against God and his love that I have come across in my research : (

3.) During my research I was studying in Psalm 116, where it gives ways to live a Spiritually healthy life, in Believing in Him, crying out to Him, Following Him, Drinking in his word, Obeying Him, Serving Him, Thanking Him, and Following Him. I have probably read that passage before but this time of reading it, it took on a whole new meaning to me. I understood what God was saying through the words of the Psalm. This is how we are to live our lives!

                                                                             -Janie