Flashbacks

So now that you have an epic introduction to who I am and what this is all about I can dispense with the formalities. The best way for you to know where I'm going is to know where I am coming from. I was raised in an evangelical Christian home and believed in God from a young age, but it wasn't until college that I really started to question the incongruency between what I had been told my entire life and what I was experiencing for myself. I started to ask God why I didn't see seas part or fire from Heaven, why didn't He show up to us the way He did in Biblical times? That simple, yet sincere question opened the proverbial can of worms and my life completely changed.

Say What?!?!?.....

The first time I saw God's hand intervene in a miraculous way happened my senior year of college. I was a fifth year senior that realized I no longer had any interest in teaching secondary ed math to high schoolers. I knew that I was wasting my time and money. I decided to pursue interpreting sign language instead, but the only problem was that I couldn't even stomach the thought of finishing out the remainder of the year I had left. I wrote the dean of the school of education, told him my situation, and pleaded with him to allow me to graduate early. After he promptly replied and said, "no" I set up an appointment with him and tried again in person. As I sat in his office and watched his head shake back and forth I threw up a hail mary prayer asking God to help me out and instantaneously the dean's eyes flickered and the horizontal side to side motion miraculously turned into a decided, "yes". He said, "let me talk to your advisor," and that was the end of that. I graduated with a degree in secondary education without ever student teaching. For anyone with an education degree, you know that that truly is a miracle. For anyone outside of the teaching world, that's like saying, "you don't want to do your senior internship? No problem. Let me just sign off on your remaining 15 class credits, hand you your diploma, and you can be on your way". It just doesn't happen!