The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians

I found a connection in “The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians,” by Rita Dove. I liked how she incorporated religion into being happy. When Rita Dove goes through her childhood and how she grew up, I could identify with her outlook on life and how it slowly began to change. As a child she found herself full of guilt because she did not think she connected with God like all the other members of the church. She found herself believing that God didn’t like intelligence, however she knew she couldn’t be blamed for the information she was told. She continued to grow up in the church still and learned about Saul who became Paul. She found herself questioning how one could just change their views and completely flip their life around in just three days. She began to question everything including happiness. She didn’t understand at first how one person could just change so quickly. Rita Dove went into her own isolation. She had been hurt and was at an all time low, just like Saul was. She began to realize just how good it felt to have a change come over you. She completely changed in her own ways, she was no longer a person that admired the small details, but instead was a person who was okay with the simplicity of things. Happiness can come in all different shapes and sizes depending on who you are, but for Rita Dove, happiness came from a change within her. A change that would have never taken place if it weren’t for her religious background.