God's grace was the ultimate goal of life for most Puritans. To become a purer form and lead a purposeful life, Puritans believed that they had to devote themselves to God and nothing else. They believed that materialistic views on life eventually leads to disaster and distress and consequently "to [their] God [their] heart[s] will cry" (Bradstreet 8) in helplessness and in sorrow. They believed that in order to earn God's glory, they had to pray to God and beg him for forgiveness from their sins.
As a dancer, my purpose in life is to portray the serenity and joy of life. My goal is to show my community the happiness and positive aspects of life and to create joy and enjoyment in theirs. Just as the Puritans believed in God and believed that God brought them the peace and control they needed in life, I believe that God gives me the energy and memory that I need to bring happiness and joy for myself and my audience. I believe that the power of devotion to God helps me, as a dancer, achieve my goal of bringing my best work to the audience and proving to them that dance is more than just a performance, it is an art. My goal in life is to prove that the art of dance always shows the extremes of life such as happiness and sadness, guilt and pride, peace and disruption, and joy and anger. With God's grace, I believe, like the Puritans, that I can transform into the "purest form" of a dancer in order to bring the happiness I strive to see in my community.
As a dancer, my purpose in life is to portray the serenity and joy of life. My goal is to show my community the happiness and positive aspects of life and to create joy and enjoyment in theirs. Just as the Puritans believed in God and believed that God brought them the peace and control they needed in life, I believe that God gives me the energy and memory that I need to bring happiness and joy for myself and my audience. I believe that the power of devotion to God helps me, as a dancer, achieve my goal of bringing my best work to the audience and proving to them that dance is more than just a performance, it is an art. My goal in life is to prove that the art of dance always shows the extremes of life such as happiness and sadness, guilt and pride, peace and disruption, and joy and anger. With God's grace, I believe, like the Puritans, that I can transform into the "purest form" of a dancer in order to bring the happiness I strive to see in my community.
I love how you connected the Puritan beliefs to your passion for dance and how discussed how your bleifs were similar to those of the puritans. How do you think that the Puritan beliefs in god helped them throughout their life? Do you believe that their view on god's impact on their lives was too extreme? How have these beliefs in god evolved over time?
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