Comparing and Contrasting Upon the Burning of our House

Upon the Burning of our House is a poem about a woman who goes to sleep without a worry in the world to wake up to the sound of thundering noise and piteous shrieks of dreadful voices. She immediately turned to God and let out a cry from her heart and asked him to strengthen her in her distress. She doesn’t pray to God to save her from the fire. She prays to Him …showed first 75 words of 278 total…

…showed last 75 words of 278 total…the world is His. God is what she should care about because He is more important than anything she lost in the fire. Well, her bible may have cost her a pretty penny. She can live without her stuff but she now knows that she cannot live without God in her life. She knows that she is not going to find her treasure on earth, she’s going to find her real treasure in heaven.