After a lifetime, my 26 year long lifetime, I finally realized what “my calling” was, as Gordon T. Smith puts it in Courage & Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential. Knowing my calling was to help people, I felt joining the psychology world would be the first step on that path. When I first started at Colorado Christian University (CCU) a student counselor, whose name slips my mind, made it a simple choice by telling me that “social workers give [people] the resources so they can help themselves.” Here at CCU I would like to write and understand literature better, strengthen my faith and graduate with my Associates in Psychology. Throughout high school, I excelled in courses involving English and literature but I believe I have lost my strength. Having a joy for reading, I would like to broaden my vocabulary and reinforce my grammar knowledge. A professor here at CCU, told me “while reading circle words you don’t know the meaning of and define them,” this was very helpful. Another thing that has assisted me and will continue to help are the discussions; reading or listening to other students questions and answers, realizing things I want to ask and listening to my classmate’s different views on our assignments. In addition to student assistance, I have read many …show more content…
In Adult Studies Seminar I, we reviewed the schools strategic objectives; “Teach students to trust the Bible, live holy lives and be evangelists,” was truly something that I wanted to learn more about. Starting this school, in May 2017, with a weak faith was difficult. But I have come to see that attending this school alone has taught me so much and my faith has already begun to build up. Now with different electives that I have chosen, I’ve really gotten down in the depths of what my faith is and should be. I want to continue attending this school, find and create a foundation for my children and