For the Love of God: Part 4

For two years I worked after school from

5-9:00 pm Monday through Friday, also

on Saturday 5-9:00 pm and Sunday after

church from 1-5:00 pm.

Upon graduation from high school, I

started working full time at the same

store I had worked for the past 2 years.

It was at this time the pastor of my

church had encouraged my parents to

talk to me about going to college. Of

course they had no money to contribute

due to the low income of our family. It

was at this point we found out through

him about a Baptist college that had

financial assistance for those who could

not afford on their own to pay. I had

always wanted to be a teacher and now

the LORD had opened a door for me

to accomplish that goal. The LORD

definitely had His guiding hand in the

leading of many to assist me in getting

my education to be a teacher. Low interest

loans, National Defense Grants, and

occasional money from my church; as

well as getting on the student work/study

program allowed me the finances to get

my education. So, if I wasn't in class, I was

working in the college library processing

books. Four and a half years later I graduated,

receiving the Award for the "Most Outstanding

Graduating Senior in the Field of Education."

Thus began my life in teaching for the

next 33 years to the present day.

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More to come...