An Inspirational Story
(Ms Ritu Sinha)
(Ms Ritu Sinha)
My second year attending college....
I moved 300 miles away from my home of six
years and entered a private Christian college. I was thrilled that I was going
to attend my first pick school. My favorite class was English I with Professor
Wilcox. He encouraged creativity and open thought which was right up my alley.
Throughout high school I had been
pretty much told what to write and what to think. I enjoyed the challenge of
his vague writing assignments; it made me have to really think about what I put
down on paper.
As the school year progressed I became
very ill and missed several of my classes. I apologized over and over to my
professors for missing their classes, and I did the assignments out of hospital
rooms or between trips to specialists and weekly doctors’ visits. At the end of
the term my medical condition had improved some and I was able to start doing
some of the extra credit to make up for my daily grades. I worked double time
to bring my grades up.
The day of my English final, Professor
Wilcox approached me and handed me a single sheet of rose pink paper. He told
me to read on my way home to Texas
In his letter he described the plight
of a young woman, the youngest in her class, struggling with sickness and a
full class schedule that somehow managed to pull herself up by her bootstraps
and muttle through the year.
The last line of his letter read as
follows: "I have watched you thoroughly enjoy yourself in my class, and I
have read of your struggle against all odds to stay in school. You truly
personify my favorite verse in the book of Psalms. Thank you for showing the
world how to be brave and how to rely completely on God." He then went on to
quote the following verse: "I have set the Lord always before me; because
He is at my right hand; I will NOT be shaken." –Psalm 16:8
I hadn’t realized it at the time but everything we do and say affects other people.
My being sick had helped a professor I
barely knew to get through a very trying time in his life. I just want
everyone to know that even though things may seem rough, there will always be
better days ahead.
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