Heavenly Father, teach us to number our days right so that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Relent, O Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants. Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. May your deeds be shown to your servants, and may your splendor be shown to their children. May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us—yes, establish the work of our hands. [Psalm 90:12-17]
Holy Spirit, today, May 20th, back in 1984, I graduated from high school. December 16th, 1996, I graduated from college with my bachelor's, and December of 2006, I finished my Master’s. I have worked for
16 years as a Distribution Specialist while going to college, getting married, and having children. I then switched to working for the State as a teacher and now as a principal. Even with all of this success in life, I also had many failures along the way. My grade point average was 2.999, so that kept me from getting a teaching job with some very good schools. I worked a lot of hours, missing parts of my children’s early years in life. I had times when my furnace quit in the middle of winter, hitting a deer with my car, and even totaling my truck when a guy ran a stop sign. I lost my son Philip at the age of 21 to a gunshot in the head, never fully knowing if it was an accident or suicide. I have mountain top experiences and walking in the shadow of death with cancer and being septic twice each. Through all the good and the bad, I gained wisdom, experience, and learned to have faith and trust in God. I am not perfect and I am still learning but I have a foundation that is uniquely mine.
I thank my God always concerning the grace of God which was given to me by Christ Jesus, that I am enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in me, so that I come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm me to the end, that I may be blameless in the day of our
Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom I am called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. [1Corinthians 1:4-9]