Full Circle
This Week's Theme: Success and Significance
Thursday, June 7, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us (Romans 8:37).
Bonus Reading:Romans 8:31-39
Although I was raised by a single parent in the inner city and went to a gang-infested high school, God enabled me to earn an appointment to West Point. But in my second year I failed chemistry and was dismissed. I returned home humiliated and broke, with no job, no transportation. No college would accept me.
At this low moment, I remembered all God had brought me through and asked myself why He'd fail me now. I could at least go to a junior college. I enrolled, stayed with my grandmother, took a bus to school, and got a job there as a math and physics tutor. After an exceptional semester, I was accepted at a university and made the dean's list.
I taught at an inner-city junior college, then took an engineering position at Hughes Aircraft. While there, I met a Coast Guard officer, was impressed with his service branch, and went through the commissioning process. So seven years after leaving West Point, I became an ensign. I thank God for staying by my side and not letting me give up. Always trust Him. His love will carry you through your darkest moments.
Lt. Junior Grade Framar (Lee) Stenson in Command
Respond:
A time when God sustained me through a time of apparent failure was .
Thought to Apply:
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Winston Churchill (British prime minister during World War II)
Adapted from: Command (11/00) 1 of 1
Lord, help me to align my goals with Your purposes for me.
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