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- Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
- Theme: Survival / Success
- Subject: Faith / Hope
- Published: 07/02/2010
The Perfect Final Exam
Born 1959, M, from Beaumont ,Texas, United StatesIt was high noon on May 7, 2004, the last day of finals, and unknown to me, an hour late for my last exam. I saw a classmate walking away from where I was going. He informed me the exam was at 11:00am, and not the 12: 20 class time, as I had assumed. I immediately went into a “code blue” flat-line sort of feeling for a few seconds.
I said a little prayer, “Please give me the strength to master whatever task is put before me today.”
Sweet Lord, what do I do now? ‘Find your professor, and take your final resonated in my head.’ As I cleared the door to the psychology building headed for my classroom. I see Amanda the program coordinator, and fellow prayer group member of the United Methodist Wesley Foundation Campus Ministry. With a bubbly tone she exclaimed of making a 93 on her exam, which was given by my professor’s wife.
Looking in my professor’s dark classroom was like peering at an unforgiving, life sucking, abyss that aired through the door glass. I explained my dilemma while we were walking, then as we were parting paths I asked Amanda to pray for me. I told her that his wife is still here and he is not, and I still have hope.
I prayed again, “I could use a little help Lord?”
‘Go to his office, and on the way see if his car is there.’
As I walked towards his office, I was thinking, great! There are few professors at this University I am intellectually in awe of, and frankly a little frightened of, and I am looking for one to ask a favor.
He is a middle age long haired Philosophy Professor of Scottish heritage who has life experience PhD’s. in “bad attitude”, and “nasty disposition”, when annoyed.
I prayed again, before I rounded the corner of the building allowing me to see if his car was still there.
“Sweet Lord, please let his car be there, and him, in a good mood.”
I said thank you Lord after seeing his car. Again, I asked God to let Doc. to be in a good mood.
As I picked up my pace towards his office, my heart was pounding, and I really felt more alive and more self-assured than I had all semester. When I reached his office the lights were on, but nobody was there. My blood pressure was spiking and I felt light headed. There must be hope for someone who has the faith to believe in the Living God.
I prayed again, Lord, I could use a little more help?
“Go to Kampus Korner and take your exam resounds in my head.”
Before I opened the door to the Kampus Korner dinner, that more than alive feeling of self-assuredness came over me again. I felt as if I was given the holy breastplate, shield and body armor of Christ.
I knew that God was going to manifest a positive reality for my struggle and faith. I opened the door to see my professor grading papers at the closest table. I could not have timed my entrance more perfectly, there was a supernatural feeling, that things were happening as they were supposed to, mostly because of the expression on his face.
He looked at the door when I opened it. As our eyes made contact I said,
“I was not there at 11:00 am for your exam”.
He said, “I know, because I was there, as you should have been.”
These words terrified me. I didn’t know if he would let me take the final thereby passing with an exceptional grade. I asked God to give me the words, because I was clueless. Then I said,
“All I can do is blame it on my stupidity in not verifying the test time of the one class I diligently studied for.”
With a grin and a pleasant disposition he said, “The truth shall set you free”. An exam appeared from nowhere, and he says, “This exam is to be finished before I am finished grading papers.”
Aloud this time, I once again prayed: “God to give me the strength to master the task put before me.”
The Professor handed me a two-page front and back comprehensive final exam, and he had about 30 papers left to grade. I was a little concerned because I needed an A, but it was a multiple-choice test. I answered the first three questions when the good Doctor interrupted my train of thought with a story about his son.
When he had finished I reflected on what was said, and noticed his story was a very complex, almost unseen analogy of a story that has become a University Philosophical mainstay. Plato’s “The Allegory Of The Cave” perfectly correlated to the professor’s story and the second question, which I had answered incorrectly.
Being given gifts of wisdom, and growing abilities in seeing things most people dismiss. I was not to deny a God sent gift-horse from steering my direction. I promptly corrected the answer.
This man whose bad side I fear, with a very complex, but still, God sent analogy, renewed my assured clarity to finish my one and only Perfect Final Exam. I found myself looking for answers before I had finished reading the questions. Ten minutes later when I finished the exam, I thanked him for his kindness, and then for the most extraordinary Final Exam experience of my college career.
As I was leaving the good doctor says: “Ask, and ye shall receive. Seek, and ye shall find. Lust after the Living God’s given knowledge, and ye shall gain wisdom.”
I looked at him with a big smile and said, “Yes sir, the living God is very wise in sharing his knowledge with those seeking his wisdom. I think I will try New York.”
In my meager opinion, his intellectually perverse paraphrase invoked hours of reflection as to the validity of his statement. Although his Epicurean oxymoronic paraphrase borders on a blasphemous hedonistic extrapolation from the book of Matthew, his statement is absolutely valid. More importantly, his paraphrase incites critical criticism of abstract thought.
Asking God to work in your life, thereby witnessing God’s power being expressed in your life, gives rise to testimony of a sublime power not bound to the palisades of empirical paradigms that lack belief beyond proof.
To proclaim belief in the transcendental supernatural power of the Living God, who manifests himself through the most supernatural serendipity, and powerfully compelling transcendental ways; is asking the reader to take a “leap of faith” in that, this story is without irrefutable evidence, and the testimony is mostly true to protect the ignorant..
If people dare to believe in the Living God, I know from my own experiences that similar wonders will happen for them. Little prayers influence and invoke supernatural powers.
Try It!!!
The Perfect Final Exam(Howard Louis Kern)
It was high noon on May 7, 2004, the last day of finals, and unknown to me, an hour late for my last exam. I saw a classmate walking away from where I was going. He informed me the exam was at 11:00am, and not the 12: 20 class time, as I had assumed. I immediately went into a “code blue” flat-line sort of feeling for a few seconds.
I said a little prayer, “Please give me the strength to master whatever task is put before me today.”
Sweet Lord, what do I do now? ‘Find your professor, and take your final resonated in my head.’ As I cleared the door to the psychology building headed for my classroom. I see Amanda the program coordinator, and fellow prayer group member of the United Methodist Wesley Foundation Campus Ministry. With a bubbly tone she exclaimed of making a 93 on her exam, which was given by my professor’s wife.
Looking in my professor’s dark classroom was like peering at an unforgiving, life sucking, abyss that aired through the door glass. I explained my dilemma while we were walking, then as we were parting paths I asked Amanda to pray for me. I told her that his wife is still here and he is not, and I still have hope.
I prayed again, “I could use a little help Lord?”
‘Go to his office, and on the way see if his car is there.’
As I walked towards his office, I was thinking, great! There are few professors at this University I am intellectually in awe of, and frankly a little frightened of, and I am looking for one to ask a favor.
He is a middle age long haired Philosophy Professor of Scottish heritage who has life experience PhD’s. in “bad attitude”, and “nasty disposition”, when annoyed.
I prayed again, before I rounded the corner of the building allowing me to see if his car was still there.
“Sweet Lord, please let his car be there, and him, in a good mood.”
I said thank you Lord after seeing his car. Again, I asked God to let Doc. to be in a good mood.
As I picked up my pace towards his office, my heart was pounding, and I really felt more alive and more self-assured than I had all semester. When I reached his office the lights were on, but nobody was there. My blood pressure was spiking and I felt light headed. There must be hope for someone who has the faith to believe in the Living God.
I prayed again, Lord, I could use a little more help?
“Go to Kampus Korner and take your exam resounds in my head.”
Before I opened the door to the Kampus Korner dinner, that more than alive feeling of self-assuredness came over me again. I felt as if I was given the holy breastplate, shield and body armor of Christ.
I knew that God was going to manifest a positive reality for my struggle and faith. I opened the door to see my professor grading papers at the closest table. I could not have timed my entrance more perfectly, there was a supernatural feeling, that things were happening as they were supposed to, mostly because of the expression on his face.
He looked at the door when I opened it. As our eyes made contact I said,
“I was not there at 11:00 am for your exam”.
He said, “I know, because I was there, as you should have been.”
These words terrified me. I didn’t know if he would let me take the final thereby passing with an exceptional grade. I asked God to give me the words, because I was clueless. Then I said,
“All I can do is blame it on my stupidity in not verifying the test time of the one class I diligently studied for.”
With a grin and a pleasant disposition he said, “The truth shall set you free”. An exam appeared from nowhere, and he says, “This exam is to be finished before I am finished grading papers.”
Aloud this time, I once again prayed: “God to give me the strength to master the task put before me.”
The Professor handed me a two-page front and back comprehensive final exam, and he had about 30 papers left to grade. I was a little concerned because I needed an A, but it was a multiple-choice test. I answered the first three questions when the good Doctor interrupted my train of thought with a story about his son.
When he had finished I reflected on what was said, and noticed his story was a very complex, almost unseen analogy of a story that has become a University Philosophical mainstay. Plato’s “The Allegory Of The Cave” perfectly correlated to the professor’s story and the second question, which I had answered incorrectly.
Being given gifts of wisdom, and growing abilities in seeing things most people dismiss. I was not to deny a God sent gift-horse from steering my direction. I promptly corrected the answer.
This man whose bad side I fear, with a very complex, but still, God sent analogy, renewed my assured clarity to finish my one and only Perfect Final Exam. I found myself looking for answers before I had finished reading the questions. Ten minutes later when I finished the exam, I thanked him for his kindness, and then for the most extraordinary Final Exam experience of my college career.
As I was leaving the good doctor says: “Ask, and ye shall receive. Seek, and ye shall find. Lust after the Living God’s given knowledge, and ye shall gain wisdom.”
I looked at him with a big smile and said, “Yes sir, the living God is very wise in sharing his knowledge with those seeking his wisdom. I think I will try New York.”
In my meager opinion, his intellectually perverse paraphrase invoked hours of reflection as to the validity of his statement. Although his Epicurean oxymoronic paraphrase borders on a blasphemous hedonistic extrapolation from the book of Matthew, his statement is absolutely valid. More importantly, his paraphrase incites critical criticism of abstract thought.
Asking God to work in your life, thereby witnessing God’s power being expressed in your life, gives rise to testimony of a sublime power not bound to the palisades of empirical paradigms that lack belief beyond proof.
To proclaim belief in the transcendental supernatural power of the Living God, who manifests himself through the most supernatural serendipity, and powerfully compelling transcendental ways; is asking the reader to take a “leap of faith” in that, this story is without irrefutable evidence, and the testimony is mostly true to protect the ignorant..
If people dare to believe in the Living God, I know from my own experiences that similar wonders will happen for them. Little prayers influence and invoke supernatural powers.
Try It!!!
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