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I grew up in a Wesleyan-Methodist church until I was 17 years old and felt like I didn't need the church any more. I could handle my life and take care of all my big decisions on my own. Well half-way through my senior year of high school I got married because I got the first girl that I was ever with pregnant and I was doing the right thing. So I quit school at that point because I had started a job on third shift that was paying $14.00 an hour base rate and I was earning up to $ 23.00 an hour with production bonus, and you could work all the over time you wanted. So I went back to night school and got my diploma a year later so instead of graduating with my class in 1978 I graduated by receiving my diploma in the mail while I was in basic training. Then my life took a turn I never thought it would when I would follow the course I did in the Army. Some of the best times of my life, that show me that I can do anything that I set my mind to. I wish I was including someone else in all my decisions during that part of my life but I was still rebelling from the course that my parents wanted me to take but I was doing it on my own I thought. It wasn't until I was in my late forties until I came to the realization that I was missing something in my life that was a strong pulling toward going back to church. I had seven grandchildren at the time and the two that were living with me needed some kind of sense of a stable home because their parents fought all the time and my wife and I would be caught in the middle because the mother is my wife's daughter and they are just like my own children. So I have had to fill in and be the stable father figure in those two children's life even though their father is in the home. So one day I picked up my Bible and started reading it again. The feeling of some extra special power of love started to fi ll my heart when I was reading my Bible and I would try to read stories from the Bible to my two grand children when I got the chance and they always wanted more. One day when I was on one of my trips into my favorite place to worship I was walking and I saw this doe and her fawn standing in am opening. so I just sat down on a tree stump and watched them for about a half an hour just playing in this little opening in the woods they did not know or didn't care that I was there. While I was watching this I had this feeling that I needed to get my life right with God because I needed to be a Christian and try to teach my grandchildren how to live so they don't repeat the ugly family circle of violence in the home against women. In my opinion a man should never raise a hand to a women. Then I started classes at Spring Arbor University and I have learned so much about how to live as a Christian and give my grandchildren the love and support that they need. The professors that I have had here have been the greatest. They have given me the help that I have needed to get to the point of taking senior level classes and being able to carry my head up and have some pride in what I have accomplished so far. I am not done but I am getting there. My belief in God is getting stronger everyday and that is in part to the students and the staff at this school of higher learning, as in God. The four books that we read this semester really pushed my limits but I was able to complete the work because of the help I received from our Heavenly Father. I would thank everyone in this class for letting me unload some ugly baggage on you for my what grips my field talk, that really has given me more inner peace than I have in a long time and my self-esteem has increased because of that speech. so I would like to thank all of you again.

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