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100 Words

3/10/2014

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Reader's Digest challenged subscribers to tell their life stories in 100 words or less.     Here is mine.   

Scholarship recipient and three-time state champion, I graduated with a plan.    I would marry an academic, athletic man, which I did.  We would have brilliant, talented children and bask in glory.   A career change catalyzed major depression; my husband stayed in bed for years.    Goals of grandeur dissolved into struggles for survival; commitment tested, money limited, hope dim.  Today.   No scholarships earned, no championships won.  My husband treasures me; our generous-hearted children hug us and laugh together; the family kneels in prayer, thanking God for our blessings.  I planned for success.   God gave me joy.  His plan is better.

What is yours?





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Steven Benjamin
3/10/2014 03:06:23 am

That is not what I expected. (10 minute wait to think of what to write next...). I expected to find that you had a MD from Harvord and were out saving children from polio in some third world country... Sound like you found a better path. Two years ago my wife and I became a parent for the second time, the greatest lesson that we have learned is that when your responsibility ends is your choice. So I will be 65 when he goes on a mission and my wife and will probably never get to go on a mission together... The chapter for tomorrow has not been written yet.

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Steven Benjamin
3/10/2014 03:07:42 am

It cut me off before I got to say, it sounds like you have done smashingly well!

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