Personal Narrative: An Interview With Jesus

I interviewed my mom at my house, where I told her about what we have been learning in class about Jesus’ exceptional characteristics and asked her about her encounter with Jesus and his exceptional characteristics. The first question I asked her was what exceptional characteristic she had during her encounter with Jesus. She said that “it had to have been his loving gaze...It was through my boyfriend-at-the-time’s family that I truly found the missing piece. They had a picture of Jesus, and every time I would look at it, He had these penetrating eyes that gave me a sense of overwhelming peace which is almost too hard to describe.” After hearing this, I went on to ask what gospel story did she experience through her encounter. She said that “it would have to be when Peter first met Christ, because my boyfriend had taken me to meet his parents and they welcomed me with open arms. They brought me to church, it was like they saw how broken I was and took me in and loved me.” My mom also explained to me that her sister had died when she was 15 and her dad died when she was 19, which made her ask “where they went.” When she met her boyfriend she felt peace and it was through him that she found the Catholic Church, and through his mother that she was finally able to find Jesus.

When asked why the encounter had moved her, she explained that “not being able to participate in receiving communion at mass and from what I learned from my boyfriend’s family, I suddenly found this urge from deep inside that longed to take part in this. She then proceeded to tell me that “I went from
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being a kid from a family of alcoholics and neglect to someone who felt this overwhelming love and peace from my heart that I never felt before, it made me want to be united with Him.” After the interview, I found a sense of confirmation about my faith that had never really been there. I think that now I see that Jesus truly does want us to be with him and he will work through any opening he can find. My mom simply wanted to know where her loved ones went, and through this question she found Jesus and opened her heart to Him with so many wounds, that are now stitched, but the scars are still fading. Everyday is another chance to find Jesus more and more, and soon the scars will fade.