memoir esay

First Sunday of Each Month

I believe I was born again two years back when my grandmother expired I felt like an entirely new person when I started to attend church for the first time in my life , with the hope that I would be able to grasp the real reasons for life and death . I did not wish to see my grandmother 's death through the lens of Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution . She was not just a part of my close-knit family and my father 's mother her personality was

akin to that of an angel for all members of my family of orientation . It was she who taught me the difference between morality and deviance . Although I had been intently studying the theory of evolution described in science magazines , mainly because of my interest in new creative thoughts in the field I did not wish to believe that she had simply disappeared into nothingness - back to some kind of primordial soup , if not a black hole that astronomers speak of

I joined a group of people with whom I could start attending church once again . I had wanted to learn how to pray for peace , both for myself and my grandmother . My father had attended church regularly in his youth . But , for some reason , the nuclear family he had established did not practice religion at all . My father told me that he stopped attending church soon after his marriage , perhaps because he became overly enthusiastic about...