Quite An Education

     "Train up a child in The Way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from It."  Proverbs 22:6


        Thirty Three years ago I entered College.   Today I will finally graduate.  At the time when I originally dropped out of school about thirty years ago, I thought I would never go back.   God has taken me on a very wild life's journey and brought me back to the place where He wanted me to be.   I tried to do it my way, but He was there opening and closing doors; and making unheard of opportunities available to me.  
       About 3 years ago I felt that God was telling me it was time to go back to school and finish that degree I had begun in 1977.  I started to take a class here and there at the local community college but funds were a problem.  My work schedule was also a problem.  I was working as a Paramedic and did shifts.  No steady days off, and no steady shift.  Everything varied.  I couldn't even count on getting off of a day shift in time to make an evening class because of late calls and paperwork.   So I finally stopped trying to take a class here and there.  And then an odd thing happened.  I got a desk job.   Steady days.  Steady daylight hours.   And I know that God put me in the job.   I had been feeling that God had a new job for me and had been fasting and praying and waiting for an answer.  I felt that God was telling me that I would have a job by Easter of that year.  I got a job offer.  I thought that was the one.  I verified that they really wanted me.  And then the day after I turned in my notice at my job, the new job offer was pulled.  They decided they would rather have someone else. Was I worried. No.  I was sure that God had it covered.  I now had 2 weeks to go at my current job and then would be jobless if He didn't come through.  I continued to fast and pray.   The very last week before Easter I was offered the job in which I currently work.  God had come through.  And it was as He said it would be.    Anyway about this very same time, God had provided a means of financing school.  So I went.   One Class a week for a year and a half, and then some online courses to finish up.  Finally I am here.  Finishing my degree, and in a Christian School.  Learning how to keep Christ in the workplace.  Learning the ways of the Lord.   As Phillipians 4;13 says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
     I guess there is not much point to this story, except that I hope that it would be an encouragement to anyone whom is not so sure that God really gets involved in our day to day lives.   He does.  He cares.  He wants what He wants for us.  He opens doors to open up opportunities to us that He wants for us to pursue.  He closes doors to help keep us on path. We just need to ask Him to guide us and then be willing to follow His guidance.  It's got to make you wonder...
       Dear Lord, thanks for taking care of me as I went on this journey with You.   Thanks for always being there with me in the classroom and in life.  Thanks for making things possible that I never dreamed could happen.  And thank You that someone might see what You have done, and reach for their dreams.  If it's what You want I know You will be there for them too.