Lyndsey Leegwater
Mrs. Roskamp
8B, LA #12
Metaphor Writing
I am an Ocean
I am an Ocean. The Sea Storms is one part of why I think my life is an Ocean. In my life sometimes there is rough seas and I can’t see the horizon and the light and the goodness of my life. There are times when I feel I am going through a storm and nothing is going right and everything is fall apart. There are times when bad things happen in my life. My Grandma Deroo was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer before I can even remember. She had to go through chemo and she would get very sick. It was hard for me to see the good in this situation. I could see no light. The thunder was booming and the waves were rising. In the next couple years it went on some change, but not much. The storm was clearing. Then the lightning crashed and the rain came down and we had found out that my grandma’s cancer had spread. They said she may not live for very longer. More chemo, more sickness. Today she is still living well and is off of chemo at the moment. She has lived almost 10 years with her cancer. The storm cleared for now. The light has just peeked through.
In the Ocean there is lots of trouble. The fish in the Sea is a part of the Ocean I can relate to my life. In the ocean the fish always have to look out for the enemy or the predator. They have to look out for the shark because he is ready to eat. Satan is out to tempt you and you need to trust in the God and not turn away from him into the devil’s schemes. We need to look out for the temptations of Satan. The fish look out for the shark and we need to look out for our tempter Satan. He can tempt you to lots of things in your life that God would not want you to do. In my life I know that I have fallen short and have been tempted by Satan. I have sinned and Satan has pulled me into that sin. There are times when I fall short of God and Satan can pull me into temptation. When I am frustrated or mad Satan can make me do things by tempting me. I know he tempts me when I know there is something that I shouldn’t be doing or I am not allowed and I do it anyways. I need to look out because all around are Satan’s temptations.
Colors of the Ocean reminds me that that we are all unique in different ways. In many ways, from each other, everyone is different. If you look around in your life you can see that no one looks alike. It is pretty obvious. All of us are made in different ways to like different things and have different personalities. We are made by God and no one of us is the same. We need to know to not be acting like others because they are already taken, they are already them, and you are you. Sometimes I feel that I try to do this. I try to act different than I am. I know that I like things than other people. I like sports, and animals, and I like to sing, and I like music. I know that not everyone likes the same things I do, but sometimes I try to act like they do or try to act like I know things that other people like. I need to now we are all different colors in the ocean. We are all different in many, many ways.
My life is like sea creatures in the big, blue ocean. Sea creatures need the water to survive and live. I know I need God to live. There is no way sea creatures can live without water. Fish can not live in the desert. Whales can not live in the city. They have to live in the water. They can not live without water. Just like we need God to survive. We can not live without God. It is impossible. It is like a fish out of water. We can not survive. I know I can not survive without him. He created me and the earth I live on. If he was not there I would not even be alive. He created me. He creates my future and I know I need to trust in him, in all that I do. He knows whatever I do. He can see everything. There is nothing he can’t do. I can not live without him.
