"She Went by Gently" Answers

1.      The ability to love others as God loves us in women’s treatment towards girls is seen through the kindness and not being a judgmental character toward the girl. God doesn’t judge us and is a God of second chances. God will never shun or avoid us for our sins. Instead, God sent Jesus down to earth, so that he can have a human experience, so that we can be able to relate to him as well as saving us from our sins. The woman did not judge the young girl, and didn’t think poorly of her, even though she had sinned and made very poor decisions in her life. She soothed the young girl as well as assured her that she had nothing to worry about. This shows ways on how God is with us, through letting us know that he’s always here for us, and that there’s always another day to try again and change our mistakes for the future. These women do not show violence or anger, but instead a sense of guidance and influence towards being nice and caring. In the end, the women shows love towards others as God loved us through their kindness, compassion, caring and lovingness in situations where the girl needed a mother figure.

 

2.      When the woman says “I have saved him” what she means is that she washed away the baby original sins before he died allowing the baby to be able to go to heaven. The woman saved the babies spirit so that it could live eternally with God. She helped guide the baby in the direction of faith with God. The lady saved the baby through her faith and baptizing him as well as her trust in God. She says I saved him, meaning she saved him from death with her oil, and also that she “saved” him with the Baptism. When you get baptized, you get “saved” and that’s what she did to the new born baby. Baptism is our cleansing of sins and our beginning towards the church and Christian faith. In the end, that is what she does for the baby through the sacrament of baptism, she saved him from sin.

 

3.      The women’s journey home seemed unique and unlike a normal person her walk wasn’t very simple, instead it was very detailed. Normally, people don’t’ really notice everything they pass when  they are walking or traveling somewhere because we are too wrapped up and distracted by our own lives and interests faced . But her walk home was very descriptive, meaning that the lady noticed everything that was going on around her. There was so much detail to what was going around her, that it made the reader get a perfect visual of where she was and what she was seeing. Her words were clear and very descriptive of her journey back home. This was so that the readers could visualize what she saw and noticed. The author is trying to convey that even though the women had so much distraction in her life and what just happened that she could block all of it out and be able to notice the small things unlike normal people on her way back home.