THE TEST!
It has been 7 years since retiring from teaching. I remember TEST DAYS. Kids hated them, but teachers loved them. It really was a DAY-OFF from teaching. Some kids would really stress about tests and others never worried at all. Some of them should have worried more than they did. The last TEST I remember taking was my 6 part Biblical knowledge test for ordination. Each part was timed and you could not use notes or outside resources. When I had scheduled one of these tests, my stress level would be through the roof. AND these tests were not easy. I remember taking the first one kind of lightly until I realized this was about specifics, not generalities. Once I found that out, it ELEVATED MY ANXIETY LEVEL 100 fold. But, I made it through them with a lot of studying and YES, PRAYER! Today I was reading 2 Corinthians 13 and all that testing flooded back into my mind: "Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Chri...
