Blessings In School

By Kim DeSelms

     When I first started going to college, I didn’t really know what career path to take.  I started off in accounting, and then later transferred to culinary school.  I found that culinary school wasn’t the career path I wanted to be in and I ended up dropping out of school after about a month.  Because it was partway through the semester, I couldn’t just go somewhere else for school and start right away, so I needed to get a job to pay off student loans I had accumulated over the previous semester and a half of school.  I applied to the Walmart in Cameron, MO, where I live, and I was blessed with a job interview.  At the interview they said I could work Sundays, and asked if that was correct.  I told them that I could work any day or time besides Sunday and that I had written that on my application.  They told me that I needed to correct my application so that it reflected that I wasn’t available to work on Sundays.  I had applied to work there before, and had not even gotten an interview.  I don’t know if they would have called me in for an interview if my application hadn’t shown up incorrectly in their system, but I was very blessed because I ended up getting a job there and was able to pay off my student loans.

     I started back to school a little over a year later and I still wasn’t sure what path to take.  I tried a few more things, but I was blessed because my Grandmother took an interest in my future and signed me up to visit a career counselor for career testing.  As a result of that, I was able to select a career path that I have found to be very interesting and enjoyable and I am scheduled to graduate in May of 2016.  I have been very blessed to have been able to pay for my schooling in cash, which was something that I really wanted to do.  God has blessed me so greatly and provided for me above and beyond my needs.

     While I was in school, there was a charity that I wanted to give to, but I wasn’t sure that I could afford to give as I desired to.  I was blessed in that one of my teachers entered classwork for two of the classes that I was in into a programming competition by KCPL.  My team ended up getting first place on one competition and I got second place on the other competition.  We were awarded a sum of money for the competitions, and I was able to take my part of the money and give it to the charity that I had wanted to give to.  It is so awesome to realize that God took the desire of my heart to give, and then provided me with the ability to do so using competitions that I hadn’t even signed up for.  Our God is an awesome God!