I am a preacher kid, always have for as long as I can remember. I was dating this guy for a year then I end up pregnant. Now for me being a preachers kid this was the unpardonable sin and my scarlet letter. Toward the last few months of my pregnancy he began to smoke crack. At that moment, I knew that I wanted better and my child that I was carrying deserved better. I dragged myself to church Sunday after Sunday believing that God had forgiven me. Yet, the church members began to throw verbal stones that struck me to my heart. I cried from time to time but refused to let them still the joy that God had given me. I had my child two months early, weighting 3 pounds and 11 ounces. I drove myself twenty-five minutes every morning to breast feed
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Two days later, she stopped breathing and I popped her diaper and she began to cry. I immediately call her pediatrician and he told me to bring her in. He ran all kinds of test and found nothing. Not being pleased with his effort he admitted her into the hospital for even more test. That hospital transferred her to Lebonour Children’s Hospital an hour and a half away. They found out that her white platelets in her blood were severely low and she needed a blood platelet transfusion immediately. The doctors wanted to draw fluid off her brain because her test results were puzzling. I watched them tuck her into a ball, she began to turn blue due to no oxygen supply, draw fluid from her spine. The doctors gave her two bags of platelets. She stayed in the hospital for a month and was released. The doctors could not figure out what cause her complications but I knew that it was a life changing event for me. This humbling situation caused me to fall down on my knees, totally surrender my life to Christ and develop a real relationship with Him. I believe that it takes a situation to occur to open your eyes up to change, it takes a desire to want to change and a belief within to open your heart up to …show more content…
Diversity can be seen within the public view as “Black lives matter,” or “Police lives matter,” it is seen in race and even the workforce. The military was halted with the choice of putting women on the frontline and letting gays be in the military. Diversity is seen here by gender and sexuality. “Diversity can be classified by ethnicity or the community in which you are associated” (Takeuchi 2002). When the government is collecting data on those on assistance they are zoning in on the minority who are in need of food, shelter, and medical treatment. “Just because you have been where a client may be does not make you experienced to help them with their situation” (Hasting 2002). Everyones experiences are not the same and we all deal with them differently. Not every African American, Mexican, Chinese, Caucasian, Jew, Greek, Deacon, Pastor, mother or father deal with any situation the same, so just because you are in their group it does not mean that they will approach a situation the same as you. We are all created uniquely different. “Becoming competent in diversity is through living and learning the culture as well as yourself” (Hasting 2002). Life is filled with golden nuggets that will help you to be more and more sensitive to dealing with persons of different rays of life. You will never know it all and you will never, ever stop learning. “Be cautious when reading
Two days later, she stopped breathing and I popped her diaper and she began to cry. I immediately call her pediatrician and he told me to bring her in. He ran all kinds of test and found nothing. Not being pleased with his effort he admitted her into the hospital for even more test. That hospital transferred her to Lebonour Children’s Hospital an hour and a half away. They found out that her white platelets in her blood were severely low and she needed a blood platelet transfusion immediately. The doctors wanted to draw fluid off her brain because her test results were puzzling. I watched them tuck her into a ball, she began to turn blue due to no oxygen supply, draw fluid from her spine. The doctors gave her two bags of platelets. She stayed in the hospital for a month and was released. The doctors could not figure out what cause her complications but I knew that it was a life changing event for me. This humbling situation caused me to fall down on my knees, totally surrender my life to Christ and develop a real relationship with Him. I believe that it takes a situation to occur to open your eyes up to change, it takes a desire to want to change and a belief within to open your heart up to …show more content…
Diversity can be seen within the public view as “Black lives matter,” or “Police lives matter,” it is seen in race and even the workforce. The military was halted with the choice of putting women on the frontline and letting gays be in the military. Diversity is seen here by gender and sexuality. “Diversity can be classified by ethnicity or the community in which you are associated” (Takeuchi 2002). When the government is collecting data on those on assistance they are zoning in on the minority who are in need of food, shelter, and medical treatment. “Just because you have been where a client may be does not make you experienced to help them with their situation” (Hasting 2002). Everyones experiences are not the same and we all deal with them differently. Not every African American, Mexican, Chinese, Caucasian, Jew, Greek, Deacon, Pastor, mother or father deal with any situation the same, so just because you are in their group it does not mean that they will approach a situation the same as you. We are all created uniquely different. “Becoming competent in diversity is through living and learning the culture as well as yourself” (Hasting 2002). Life is filled with golden nuggets that will help you to be more and more sensitive to dealing with persons of different rays of life. You will never know it all and you will never, ever stop learning. “Be cautious when reading