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My Only Source
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by Joseph Robinson
ince I entered the workforce over forty years
I have spent several years working with adults
ago, I have been blessed with many diverse
who are intellectually disabled. I took a personal
employment opportunities. Using my voice has
interest in each of my clients, which hopefully made a
always been my passion, and consequentially, I spent
difference in their lives. This past August, I embarked
eleven years working in radio broadcasting. I have
on a totally different career path—a substitute teacher
since worked on freelance voice acting, recorded some
in county elementary schools. This has been one of
commercials for Beach TV, and provided narration
the most fulfilling positions I have ever had. Recently,
for the Rome Passion Play. However, my life has also
I accepted a position to start teaching a driver’s
taken me in many different directions.
education course for Georgia Northwestern Technical College. I am looking forward to interacting with the students in my class. During the Christmas season, I have followed in my dad’s footsteps by occasionally portraying Santa Claus for various church and family events and reunions. I relish the chance to bring joy to the children and to see their faces light up with excitement. So many blessings have chased me down over the years, including the recent opportunity to be involved in
I have been a forklift operator in a warehouse, a grain elevator operator in a flour mill, and I have spent over a decade delivering and setting up home
building a local church. I have seen the Lord work in the lives of many people there. As I reflect on my various work history, I realize
oxygen and other medical equipment—taking me into
that the good Lord has truly ordered my steps—
hundreds of homes over an eleven-county area. I also
opening and closing doors in His timing. Through it
spent almost 6 years working for a local funeral home.
all, I am learning to completely lean on Him as He is
Through my time at a funeral home, as well as in the
my source—my only source.
medical field, I was blessed with opportunities to interact with and minister to the sick and the bereaved.
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“And we know that God causes all things to work together for the good of them who love Him and are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).
