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Neal Creswell

My Journey From Independence to Dependence

As a member of my high school championship debate team and student body president, I thought my independent spirit served me well. English poet William Ernest Henley captured my philosophy well in his poem Invictus. Henley wrote the poem when he was just 25 years old and recovering...

Numbers Down, Trust Up

Numbers

“52.” Once again, the number registered for our McAlester, OK, CBS Class seemed to linger below the suggested number of 60 members. When would we ever grow? Were we the only country town that struggled with attendance? What was I, as Teaching Director, doing wrong? Or maybe I wasn’t doing enough?

The Seed

I was lying in bed one night, praying for children who might be in pain or in hard situations. My worry over hurting children was becoming more frequent, and increasingly unbearable. On this particular night my thoughts drifted to my own often dark and lonely childhood. So, as I pondered my childhood, as well as those of my...

Transformed from studying Servants of God to being a servant of God

By Cheryl Sangare

It seems that CBS flew by this year, but then I admit I have missed more days than ever. As I focus on how this specific CBS study has impacted my life in the last 30 weeks, I have learned that God blesses me the more I trust in Him. As I said, I have missed more classes than ever before, and that is because I was dealing with a lot of extra “stuff” this year. Here’s a list of some of the issues:

transformed

· I am disabled with Multiple Sclerosis and am raising two boys, ages 7 and 10, on my own.

· It has been an extra struggle on my limited resources because the government programs I rely on are being cut back.

· I had to represent myself in court cases for child support and custody against a seasoned lawyer defending an abuser and a biased judge.

· My 10-year-old suffers from medical neglect due to his father refusing to administer much-needed asthma medication, causing us to go to the ER over 14 times for asthma attacks, with one overnight hospital stay.

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