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I did okay with short, basic sentences. But more than that was beyond me. And <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/a-spelling-bee-m-i-r-a-c-l-e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spelling<\/a>? What a nightmare! There were so many words I didn\u2019t feel confident writing without looking up.<\/p>\n<p>Take that word <em>confident. <\/em>Or was it <em>confidant? <\/em>I couldn\u2019t rely on spell-check. Not with the number of words I didn\u2019t know. For these office jobs, they wanted people who were fast. Accurate. Smart. Not me.<\/p>\n<p>Best to stick with the kind of work I knew. I typed \u201ccashier\u201d in the search bar, each letter like a nail in the coffin where my dreams were buried. My previous job had been as a nursing assistant at a hospital. I\u2019d liked working in a health-care setting, helping people. But a confrontation with a difficult patient had left me shaken up and I\u2019d resigned, even though my boss urged me to stay. I was 45 and my life was going nowhere!<\/p>\n<p>Other than my husband and kids, no one knew the difficulty I had reading, and even they didn\u2019t know the extent of it. I\u2019d developed all kinds of tactics to hide my problem, like pretending I\u2019d forgotten my glasses and letting someone else decipher a form for me. But the shame and insecurity weighed on me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media-youtube-player\">\n<p><div class='media-youtube-player'><iframe class='media-youtube-player' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQcCnZg0UWo?rel=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I glared at the job listings on my computer. <em>God, can\u2019t you help me learn to read? I don\u2019t want to be stuck like this! <\/em>It was a familiar prayer, one I\u2019d asked for years.<\/p>\n<p>And one that had never been answered. Did God even care that I couldn\u2019t read? It didn\u2019t seem to matter to anyone when I was growing up, not even my teachers. Naturally, I tried to hide my problem. If a teacher called on me to read aloud, I\u2019d act out to avoid the embarrassment of stumbling over the words.<\/p>\n<p>Every year I was promoted to the next grade. I graduated high school with a 0.33 GPA. It felt as if everyone had given up on me learning to read. My classmates went on to college. I got married. Terry was eight years older than me, a career military man. Doting and protective, he made me feel loved. I didn\u2019t tell Terry I had trouble reading. I didn\u2019t want him thinking less of me.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d been married three years when Terry got stationed in Okinawa, Japan. I couldn\u2019t read road signs or newspapers there, but neither could other military wives. We had two sons, Terrance and Neko, and a daughter, Shaleea. I read to them\u2014Dr. Seuss and other children\u2019s books. If I struggled with a word, they didn\u2019t notice. And I wanted them to grow up loving books.<\/p>\n<p>One day I left my grocery list out on the table. Terry walked by and picked it up. \u201cThis isn\u2019t how you spell hamburger,\u201d he said, puzzled. \u201cOr spaghetti.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was no way to avoid the truth. \u201cI don\u2019t know how to spell a lot of words,\u201d I said. \u201cI\u2019m just not very good at reading. I\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t meet his eyes, but Terry wasn\u2019t upset. He held me tight and said, \u201cIt\u2019s no big deal. There\u2019s a class you can take on the base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A program for Japanese wives of American servicemen to learn English. I could only imagine the looks I\u2019d get. What would people think of me, born and raised in America but not knowing how to read English? \u201cI can\u2019t do that,\u201d I said. \u201cI\u2019d be mortified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terry didn\u2019t push me. His next posting was in Germany. We mixed with sophisticated, educated people. I saw how they held themselves, paid close attention to the words they used in conversation. I didn\u2019t want them thinking I was different. But I felt less than. When I looked in the mirror, all I saw was a failure.<\/p>\n<p>After eight years overseas, we came home to Oklahoma. I needed a job. There was no way I\u2019d get hired to work in an office, like some of the women I\u2019d known in Germany. I found a job as a cashier. Nothing wrong with that. It was just that part of me wanted something more. But with every year that passed, that seemed even farther out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>At my computer, I went to another job website. The kids were grown now, chasing their own dreams. Terry was retired, enjoying life. I was the only one who was trapped in dead-end jobs, the only one who was miserable.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t as if I hadn\u2019t tried to get help over the years. I\u2019d gone to <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/justice-tempered-by-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GED classes<\/a> despite having a diploma, but they were geared toward passing a test and I couldn\u2019t read the material. Another course was designed for single mothers, with parenting lessons I didn\u2019t need. At a vocational rehab program, a psychiatrist tested me, chalked my problem up to anxiety and advised me to apply for disability benefits.<\/p>\n<p><em>I want to work, to learn, <\/em>I thought. <em>I just don\u2019t know what the answer is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Almost unconsciously, I typed \u201clearning to read\u201d into Google. An ad popped up\u2014for a place called the Community Literacy Center. It wasn\u2019t a new program, but somehow I\u2019d never heard of it. I went to the website. \u201cWhere every adult who wants to read has the opportunity to learn.\u201d For the first time, I felt a flicker of hope.<\/p>\n<p>I told Terry about it. \u201cYou should try it,\u201d he said. \u201cBut no matter what, I\u2019ll always love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One evening a week later, I drove to the library for the introductory session. I sat in the car, afraid to go in. Was I really ready to let strangers know my secret?<\/p>\n<p>I forced myself to open those library doors and walk inside. I took a seat in a meeting room. There were 10 of us, men and women who seemed almost as nervous as I was.<\/p>\n<p>A tall blonde woman stood at the front of the room. \u201cI\u2019m Ms. Angela,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m happy to see y\u2019all. Tonight we\u2019re not going to do any studying. Just tell me a little about yourself and why you\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My chest tightened. The only thing scarier than reading was the idea of talking about my struggles. The secret I\u2019d hidden all my life. I wasn\u2019t the first to speak. It turned out that the others, like me, had been too embarrassed to admit they had a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it was my turn. \u201cI\u2019m Lisa,\u201d I said. \u201cI don\u2019t read so well. And I want to be able to spell better.\u201d As the words tumbled out, the shame that had been weighing me down left me too.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d been angry at God, thinking he didn\u2019t care about my struggles. But hadn\u2019t he brought me Terry, who\u2019d encouraged me from the moment I told him my secret? God wanted the best for me. He was just waiting for me to be ready to fully trust my problem to him. Now I was.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lord, help me to read.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The class met again two days later. On a whiteboard, Ms. Angela wrote phonetic vowel and consonant sounds beside each letter of the alphabet, explaining how different sounds make words. She read them. We repeated. Something clicked&#8230;. I could see how it all worked together!<\/p>\n<p>At the next session, we reviewed. Then Ms. Angela handed out worksheets and had us read a paragraph silently. There were a lot of words I couldn\u2019t figure out. I started to panic. In an instant, Ms. Angela was beside me. \u201cRemember the vowel sounds,\u201d she said. \u201cSome words have a short \u2018o\u2019 sound like <em>off. <\/em>Others have a long sound. You\u2019re a smart woman, Lisa. You\u2019ll get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not smart,\u201d I said. \u201cI wish I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLisa, I\u2019ve been teaching 40 years. I know smart when I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No teacher had ever told me I was smart before. For the first time in my life, I thought, <em>I can do this!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two evenings a week, I went to class. Ms. Angela made all of us feel capable and valued. In six months, my reading level went from a fifth-grade to a ninth-grade level. I started reading books for fun. One class, I got stuck on a word in my book. I waved for Ms. Angela. She glanced at the cover. \u201cJoyce Meyer,\u201d she said. \u201cOne of my favorites. Let me know what you think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t believe it. I was reading the same author as Ms. Angela! One day I got a call\u2014my old boss at the hospital. \u201cWe have an opening, and I thought of you,\u201d he said. \u201cA receptionist for the mental health unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought of everything that job would entail. Taking down patient information. Helping with paperwork. Reading charts. Filing. Entering prescription orders. A lot of responsibility. \u201cI\u2019m not sure&#8230;\u201d I started to say. Then I thought of how Ms. Angela believed in me. How much Terry loved me. Wasn\u2019t this the kind of job I\u2019d prayed for? \u201cI\u2019ll apply right away,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>I got the job. Terry and Ms. Angela were so proud.<\/p>\n<p>On my first day, I told the woman who was training me that I struggled with reading and was taking a class to improve. I wasn\u2019t ashamed anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll do fine,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m glad you told me. I\u2019ll help you any way I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I took <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/read-to-achieve-giving-high-risk-kids-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">literacy classes<\/a> for three years, and I look forward to more advanced reading and writing classes. One thing I know about smart people is, they never stop learning. Someday I hope to go to college.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I have a new job I love: I\u2019m a claims examiner at a health clinic. There are still words that trip me up. Sentences I struggle with. But I\u2019m not afraid to ask for help. I don\u2019t need to have all the answers. I trust the One who does.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more inspiring stories, subscribe to <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/guidepostssub\"><strong>Guideposts<\/strong><\/a> <em>magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive secretary. Office manager. Paralegal. Medical records supervisor. Slowly I went through the job listings online, slumping more in my seat with each one. I would\u2019ve been thrilled to land any of these jobs. I dreamed of working in an office, where I could dress up instead of wearing a uniform. 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