Personal Narrative: My Spiritual Faith Walk

I’m supposed to describe to you my spiritual faith walk, the journey I’ve made throughout my life concerning my beliefs and convictions. I’d like first to define the word spiritual, for the sake of this speech, as something that relates or affects the human spirit or soul. Growing up, my family has simply never been religious. I was never the girl who attended church on Sunday, or prayed, ever. Religion simply wasn’t apart of our family dynamic. It still isn’t. I was, however, always allowed to learn about religion if I desired. When I asked for a Bible, I received one. When my sister and I showed some interest in attending church, my family went the next Sunday. However, none of it stuck. So, I stand here, at a Christian college, the irony fully upon me, telling my class that I don’t believe in anything, not religiously. And I guess that makes me an atheist, or whatever label is placed on nonbelievers. But, I am as firm in that as some of you are in your faiths. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have values and beliefs and morals that guide me everyday, so that’s what I’m going to talk about. I’ve lived a lot my life in a typical home, with fairly privileged status. This alone has taught me a lot about gratitude. I’ve had both of my parents around for the majority of my life, I have
She’s taught me to fight for what I love and what I think is right, and I carry those lessons with me every day of my life. She and I have always been close, so a lot of my values come from her. Her encouragement to strive to become better and to work towards my goals, no matter what they are, has translated into my own personality. I find myself often encouraging my friends and the people I surround myself with to strive towards their goals instead of aiming lower. She’s taught me to value kindness and ambition, beneficence and the