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Mckenzi Bynum<br />
Shannon Love<br />
As a cancer patient currently in treatment, I’m amazed<br />
at the outpouring of love that I have received from family<br />
and friends. Even total strangers reach out to me with<br />
prayers as I’m out shopping or eating in a restaurant.<br />
When I feel alone, God always shows me His love through<br />
people. God answers my prayers on a daily basis.<br />
He validates the desires of my heart and even when<br />
Ihaven’t made them into a prayer yet, He knows my needs<br />
before I do. When the doctors found a tumor on my<br />
pancreas in September, I was so sick I really didn’t even<br />
have the strength and want to pray for my own healing.<br />
I relied on my brothers and sisters in Christ! As time<br />
went by, I had to pray to have the strength to walk across my<br />
own house, I had to pray to be able to get out of the tub.<br />
Daily He answers my prayers through confirmation by<br />
the Holy Spirit.So the answer to your simple question<br />
is a very long and detailed answer! Aren’t we blessed<br />
to have a God who hasn’t left us alone?<br />
Ever since I can remember, I always wanted to go to<br />
school to clean people’s teeth. Once I got to high school,<br />
it was my dream and my goal to go to dental hygiene school<br />
at University Mississippi Medical Center. UMMC is the<br />
only school in Mississippi with a dental hygiene program<br />
that is a bachelor of health sciences program, which gives the<br />
opportunity to not only practice as a registered dental<br />
hygienist when you graduate, but also gives you the option<br />
to go back and teach within the same program. All throughout<br />
my high school and pre-requisite years at Holmes<br />
I kept praying for the Lord to guide me in my choices for a<br />
career. When I finished up all my classes at Holmes and<br />
started applying to dental hygiene school, I only applied at<br />
UMMC. Everyone thought I was crazy for “putting all<br />
of my eggs into one basket”. That was my way of saying,<br />
“Okay, I know this is for me, I have confidence that if this<br />
is really the Lord’s will and where He wants me, it will<br />
happen.” A few months later I opened a letter stating<br />
that I was one of the twenty accepted into the dental<br />
hygiene program at the University of Mississippi<br />
Medical Center. As I read that with happy tears<br />
all I could do was thank God!<br />
Hometown Rankin • 105
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