One of my greatest challenges of the last 32 years is training 18-year-old college students to comprehend the greatness of a college education and its possibility to change their life. The challenge is acute because I could not when I was 18. I was incapable of understanding the life-altering opportunity I was being offered, and after failing every class my first semester, I dropped out. It took me 5 years to come to my senses. College is never a path to money or a gateway to a career. College is the place where you get the opportunity to learn how you are made. Made perfectly suited to daily be about the task of loving God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength and then being offered the chance to become that person. For me, the answer was becoming an artist. College taught me a lot about making art, however, the greatest thing it did was give me the opportunity to be an artist; it gave me a fighting chance. The rest was up to me. Everyone is made to love God with all they are. Most people never learn how. It is very difficult for an 18-year-old to understand this and even harder to teach them in such a way that they can learn it. This is a great weight of glory I have carried into class every day for the last 32 years.
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