I had a teacher in a business school I attended back when I was about 19, her name was Mrs. Prater.
I'll never forget her. After I had finished the course at that school, after 7 months, I had gotten married to my 1st husband. This guy was very physically, emotionally and sexually abusive to me. I was pretty naive at that time in my life, and thats actually when all my memories of my childhood abuse surfaced in me. I was working at a check printing place that Mrs. Prater had helped me get the job. I was so down and out about my whole situation in that marriage and didn't feel like there was any way out. One day at work, I just lost it, went to the bathroom and told my co-worker that I had to leave, was having a breakdown. I left and went to the convenient store and first called my sister, she couldn't do anything for me, so I just thought to call Mrs. Prater for some reason. She immediately dropped what she was doing at the school and came to pick me up. She comforted me and encouraged me.
She always told me I could do whatever I wanted to do, that I was smart enough and how good of a person she thought I was.
Its just people like that that come along in life that show their love and concern that really mean something, they are so genuine.
There is also another person that stands out to me in my life and thats the preacher/counselor I had in OK. He went above and beyond with his love and support. He counseled for free. He was helping me through the very difficult time I was having with my 4th husband (I know this sounds bad but you would have to know my story to understand), and at that time, on top of everything other thing I was dealing with with my husband at that time the rest of the junk from my past with my dad surfaced all the way and once again I had another one of those breakdowns, and Henry (the preacher/counselor)came to the emergency room where I was at and held my hand and helped me through it, I haven't known anyone else in my life that would actually get that involved with something like that that was not related. He stays in my heart forever. Truly a true Christian!
