An Event That Influenced My Life

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So I’ve had multiple experiences and events that have influenced me as a person, and has even reached into my academic career. The event I would like to do into detail is one that happened almost a year and a half ago now; I was out on the streets living a life of sin, not accepting Christ not accepting authority, or anything that I couldn’t profit from. My life was spiraling out of control more quickly than I could believe it was. I was working a full time job and a part time job, I was hanging on the streets and more worried about making money any way possible than being home. Suddenly I left my part time job without letting them know or giving any consideration, even though I had worked there for almost 3 years. Money was my motivation and …show more content…
So I started talking with my now wife saying, I need to do something else with my life but I’m not sure where it’s leading me. So I started looking into schools but something that I could still work a full time job with but get something worth doing. And I came across some ads online in an email of mine saying, don’t you want to go back to school and so I clicked on it and it led to me to a bunch of different sites, and I began to get frustrated so I started looking for online classes and schools I could take classes online that wouldn’t interfere with my work. And so I first started looking for nursing schools and I came across CCU and though hey they offer some online classes and I could even do most of my classes online and when I clicked on the page I saw biblical studies and thought to myself, is this your calling? My interest dived into the idea of being a teacher of the bible and of being a pastor some day and I prayed and asked god should I do this is this where you’re leading me father? And the day after I got a couple phone calls I had missed from a representative from CCU and so I called

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