Back to School Back to School to Prove to God I Ain't No Fool

When my children entered junior high school, I felt they were self-sufficient and old enough to be on their own for short amounts of time. I was also feeling like my life wasn't worth much to the world around me. I wanted to contribute to my community and make my life matter in some respect.

So I returned to college. At first I got tired very easily so I only took two courses,, but eventually I took a full load.

I was very self-conscious back then and I would hide in the back of the class, but God dropped a good icebreaker in my lap (literally, LOL). My dexterity was not so hot and my writing was just a bunch of scribbles, so I needed help taking notes. There was no way I would be allowed to wear shyness as a disguise.

On the first day of every class, during my college career, the professor would introduce himself/herself. Immediately I had to raise my hand and ask the class for volunteers, who would allow me to get a copy of their notes. God always provided. Amen! These people quickly became friends. They realized that just because my speech was slurred and my movements were erratic, didn't mean I wasn't intelligent. The more people got to know me, the more I was accepted, which caused a growth in my boldness.

In the beginning I spoke almost in a whisper, trying at any cost to avoid professors and what I thought was their smug attitudes of: 'I'm better than you.' 'I'm the only one who knows anything.' As my confidence grew, I became the same old outspoken Merrym, who talked to everyone, especially the professors. I treated them as friends and that's how I was treated.

Eventually, other students recognized the great relationships I had with my professors and they asked my secret. My reply came spilling from memory, "Do to others as you would have them do to you." I was proof it worked!

Do to others what you would have them do to you.

Matthew 7:12

I am blessed

Merrym Dawn Mathis Bruce