Ackerman+Acumen

=__Personal Philosophy:__= =I want to be a servant, using compassion and honesty to guide others toward greatness. I want to walk with integrity, demonstrating light and joy to anyone who needs me. I want to move through my life without fear.=

Yet we fear the unknown; the unknown appears like a foggy day upon our horizon of life.
Throughout history, humans have desired answers. Thus, we both fear and thirst for the unknown because of its effervescence. Looking for proof, crafting hypotheses, and searching the starts, scientists, economists, and astrologers alike try to bring the intangible into our tangible world. However, daily life proves that there are circumstances that cannot be controlled; answers that will not reveal themselves; phenomenon that have no logical explanation.

The world had been sad since Tuesday. Suddenly, out of the night, the fog rolled in. For a moment, they could see nothing, not a foot in front of them. We cannot look to superstition in this. Angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a spiritual conspiracy, so we spend a good deal of time pondering the invisible world better minds still are convinced that there is a society of spirits beyond our ken. The Devil is precise. The Devil is necessary.
 * Redemption**

He dragged him out of the mud locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop, but //My heart is sick of being in chains.// I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets I've been raising up my hands. media type="custom" key="291391" Disperse the mob that is about to knock the house down!

Just what God needs, one more victim, on whom we must rely. We are not quite certain even now whether diabolism is holy not to be scoffed at We have changed ourselves into something awful, only by hiding our faces. //Sometimes a man says things he don't mean.// The bell tolled for the funeral that marches around in our hearts. //My heart is sick of being in chains.//

The faint, sad smile, the hideous dropping off of the veil, outcasts of all outcasts "You could be honest too if you'd only try. Think how wonderful it would be to settle down and live a comfortable life and not think of anyone chasing you all the time." I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets I've been raising up my hands--drive another nail in. These principles are active and powerful, exceeding violent in their nature, and if it were not for the restraining hand of God upon them, they would soon break out, they would flame out after the same manner as the same corruptions, the same enmity does in the hearts of damned souls, and would beget the same torments as they do in them.

I look for the one who took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart. //You bid me tear the light out of my eyes?// I will not, I cannot.

Then, they saw a light. "So do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed."

//Amos, Tori. "Crucify Me."// Crucify.// Atlantic/Wea, 1992.

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"Broken Down Woman." 6 November 2007.

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Carpenter, John. //The Fog.// AVCO Embassy Pictures, Bodega Bay, CA: 1980.

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." 31 August 2007.

<[|edwards.yale.edu/major-works/ **sinners**-in-the-**hands**-of-an-**angry**-**god**/]>.

//Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The Minister's Black Veil." 21 November 2005.

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Marquez, Garcia Gabriel. "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings."

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//Miller, Arthur.// The Crucible//. Penguin, New York: 1982.

O'Connor, Flannery. "A Good Man is Hard to Find." 31 October 2007.

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Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Fall of the House of Usher." 18 October 2007.

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//Poe, Edgar Allen. "William Wilson." 18 October 2007.

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"Raising Hands in Supplication." 6 November 2007. <[|www.geocities.com/mutmainaa/dua1/dua_hands.jpg]>.

Sellen, Rob. "Lighthouse in Fog." 6 November 2007. .