Final Reflection
This image doesn't have much to do with the post besides it generally summarizing my positive feelings and sense of a somewhat new self after finishing this course and my first semester at OSU. It is also just a beautiful piece of art by Bhagyashri Deshmukh. I took this class because while I grew up Catholic, I had never read the Bible outside of church, and I had only a cursory understanding of select stories from the Bible. As a result, for my commonplace book, I liked to connect our readings from class to my prior knowledge of Christian teachings so as to expand upon that knowledge. Specifically, I find the relationship between God and His people extremely fascinating and found myself focusing on that dynamic throughout all of my posts. As a STEM major, I have always had an inner conflict about being an ardent believer of science as well as a religious Catholic. After all, how was I supposed to seriously take as fact anything from a book, specifically the Old Testament, th
