Confirmation Essays

1.           The gifts of the Holy Spirit enable us to live our Christian lives to the fullest and the way God wants us to live them. The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety and Fear of the Lord. All of these gifts are working endlessly in my life day in and day out. Honestly, senior year has been tough. Balancing college applications and schoolwork has been a challenge. My time management skills have been tested but my faith in the Lord has certainly been at work and uplifting. Fortitude, Counsel and Knowledge are keeping on a straight path of obedience and doing the right thing, whether at school or during the weekends.

  I see Piety mostly through my work in Girl Scouts. Helping others allows me to do his work with love and content, in knowing God is smiling down on me because all of the work that I have done to help other people in need. In society, its hard not to want to conform into something or someone that your not. Wisdom is at work in my life to help me understand that the certain actions or decisions that I make should be through Christ and not through what other people say and do. Celebrities and friends can be influential in a negative or positive way. There are times when I feel ungrateful for what I have or the way I look because that person looks better or has something that I want. Wisdom is showing me to be happy and accept the life I have because things could be a lot worse.

2.           Fortitude is one of the gifts that I need the most in my life right now. Specifically under the Fruits of the Spirits, Patience and Faithfulness relate to Fortitude. Senior year has been stressful and intense. So many things to do in a short amount of time and I am starting to realize that time is moving. With college applications and personal struggles that I am facing during this quarter, my strength to rely on God one hundred percent and not ninety percent is hard. I feel as if so many things that have turned negative are just not going to help me in my life. Change can be difficult for me, so I tend to fear a lot because I do not know what to do or I cannot control what is happening. But prayer allows me to comfortable during those times.

When I fear, I know my faith is lessened because God tells us not to be fearful. It’s weird that my faith in God working in my life is everything but ten percent. It childish and contradicting that ten of one hundred percent of my trust is lost because I’m worried about what’s going to happen; yet I truly believe in God and love him for everything he has done for me. I guess its because when a situation goes wrong in the moment I break down and fail to realize that God is going to work in my life. It’s going to take practice and most importantly patience to have one hundred percent instead of ninety percent and let go knowing that God is never going to fail and disappoint. However, through these times that I struggle, I need fortitude extensively, knowing that I have to depend on God’s strength one hundred percent in such that he is going to help me no matter what I am up against.