Personal Narrative: My Educational Journey

To tell about a life experience that will impact my education and drive me through my educational journey could be a simple statement of how I would want to better myself, be a stronger provider for my family or maybe even so I could impact lives through a new field of work. If I were to tell you these things, I would be lying. The driving force for this decision is not my own. Since I was a young girl I have always done as I was told from my parents, get a job, graduate High School, go to college, grow up and get married and have children. I have done this with one exception; I never graduated. For the first ten years of my adult life I went to college and also continued my career path. Once my personal life took off and I got married and began a family, my education was no …show more content…
I was sitting in the pew at church while the Pastor was discussing his normal sermon. It felt like a normal day at church, worship, sermon, more worship, and then lunch. That was what I arrived at church thinking, my heart and God had a different plan that morning. Honestly, I do not remember what the scripture was or what the sermon was about. What I do remember is sitting there and having this overwhelming feeling, “this is not where I am supposed to me in my career.” The last two years has been spent as a member and now in leadership of our local Celebrate Recovery program, in every aspect of my life I have been lead to that ministry. I have spent my time and efforts serving my community through the ministry, that has lead me closer to God and has taught me to listen to him when he speaks. Months later I went with some friends to a Toby Mac concert. While there, the ministry that he supports were there and discussed hungry children that each member of the audience could adopt and send money to help them in another country. While I was hearing this message, once again, God had a different message for me to hear that