"The Father Tongue and Other Stories"

So, I turned in my first "essay" to my spiritual nonfiction class this past weekend. It's not really an essay, inasmuch as a series of vaguely connected scenes, though I plan to revise and expand it going forward. I haven't decided if I want to take the true essay route or if I want to go in a more memoir direction, but I thought I might share it here in case anyone cares to read/offer feedback. (No obligation, or anything, but what use is a journal if you don't throw your own weird personal shit out there every once in awhile, y'dig?)

As it's spiritual nonfiction, you can probably guess that it mostly deals with God stuff. Largely with the slow departure of my faith and my background growing up as a member of a Pentecostal Charismatic congregation.

( Behind a cut for space reasons. )