Andrew Scheibe
8/10/08
Junior Faith Amanda and the Five Foundational Lessons

Lesson #2- I see the world through "colored lenses." I am necessarily and unavoidably (to a greater or lesser degree) biased.
Amanda shows that she is biased through the fact that she has a bias against marriage and people marrying. She does not want to photograph the wedding because of her bias against weddings. She believes that the husband is cheating on the wife because of what her husband did to her. Her biases affect her decisions without her even knowing it some of the time.
Lesson#4- Any change in the particular beliefs that control my approach to life cannot help but modify and change my life. It will affect the quality and the texture of all I experience.
Amanda shows that she has underlying beliefs that affect her decisions through the fact that she does not want to photograph the wedding. Because of the marriage issues that she had with her husband, she does not want to photograph the wedding. Her underlying beliefs that marriage will only cause pain and anger forces her to believe that all weddings are bad and affects her decision to not want to photograph the wedding.
Lesson#3-The value judgment I make determine my actions. My mental health and happiness (and often those of many others) rests on the validity of these value judgments.
Amanda’s value judgments determine her actions as seen through the fact that she does not value marriage. Her husband forces her not to value marriage at all and therefore, her actions tend to not wanting to have anything to do with marriage. She does not want to do the photography of the wedding. Her happiness rested on these value judgments because she no longer values marriage and her ex husband,, and she is extremely upset because of these judgments. Her husband causes her lose make value judgments that affect her happiness.
Lesson#5- The most significant decisions I make in life will be faith decisions. Faith is an opinion based upon evidence to which I am committed.
Amanda shows that her most important decisions are faith decisions as she chose to put faith into her husband. To marry is an extremely huge decision. Her faith was put in the wrong person however, as he cheats on her and hurts Amanda immensely. By putting her faith into her husband, and then having him cheat on her, her faith decision affected her life enormously, and it hurt her for a long time.
Lesson #1- I am necessarily and unavoidably making decisions all the time. These can and do affect me, others and my world. By these decisions, I am determining who I am and the person I am becoming.
All of these things that affect her life and her decisions affect her life because of the fact that she is constantly making decisions. She chooses to put her faith in her husband. She chooses to not want to photograph the wedding. Most of the things that happen to Amanda happen because of her decisions that she is constantly making.