I have always had a passion for writing ever since I was a teenager. I love anything to do with art. Drawing, painting, photography, pottery, you name it and I have probably tried it. So growing up I planned to go to college and be an interior designer. Well, being young and in love I opted out of college at the last minute and decided to get married instead. Talk about changing your destiny. So instead of going off to college I started working as a cashier in a grocery store and within a year I was pregnant. So my destiny went from becoming an interior designer to working several different low paying jobs and raising my son, as well as try to make a marriage work. Within two years I had a daughter, so now there were two mouths to feed. I continued working outside the home in various jobs, from cashier to nursing assistant, among others. Eventually, I landed a really good paying job (considering I had no education) in a manufacturing plant in the town I lived in. It was very boring and monotonous work, with lots of overtime. Being a very creative and artsy type person this was not at all enjoyable for me but we as parents do what we have to do to survive and earn a living. Eventually, my marriage came to an end. Now, with two children to raise on my own, I am really feeling stuck in the job I am in. There is no way to express your creative side in the field of manufacturing. So, I continued to hate my job daily. I decided this is not where God wanted me to be, so I began to pray that God would help me find another job. I had joined a very loving and caring sunday school class at my church and had befriended two very special ladies who took me under their wings and began to mentor me. Diane began to pray that God would take me out of the work environment I was in and place me somewhere that would be a more Godly environment. Then the economy went bad and the manufacturing plant I work for started reducing the volume of vehicles it was producing. The overtime stopped completely and the company began to look for ways to cut expenses. They decided to offer a buyout so they could hopefully avoid layoffs. At first, I thought there is no way I can take this buyout but before the day was over, God had planted a seed of hope in my heart and mind that maybe, just maybe this was an answer to prayer.