Apparently, I just had a holiday that I didn’t even know to celebrate. You see, August 13th is “Left Handers Day” and yes, I am what so many of you refer to as a southpaw. So yesterday I saw a web article about this holiday with a bunch of links to different sites about being Left Handed. One of these articles talked about how a left handed person should learn to write long hand or as some say, cursive. I had never learned this.

I grew up when they were stopping teachers from trying to “correct” left handedness here in the US (but it is still happening in many parts of the world) but teachers did not know how to teach a left hander how to write. I was actually taught to hold my paper tilting the top of the paper to the left (left handers should actually tilt to the right or some even say to put the paper at a 90 degree angle to the right). My writing was horrendous. My left hand was continuously covered with pencil lead from writing that way. I got high marks in almost all of my classes except penmanship. I would write papers and get bad grades just because the teacher couldn’t read them. So in about third grade, my mom pulled out our manual typewriter and taught me to type my papers.

Ironically, as the manual typewriter got replaced by an electric one. Then that was replaced by a word processor and then with a personal computer, my typing skills got to the point where I was faster at a keyboard than with a pen and paper. It was also my dependence on the computer to complete my school work that led me into working with computers.

I have to believe it was God’s foresight that allowed me to have a teacher that didn’t know how to teach a left hander to write. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be the computer geek that I am and I wouldn’t have the skills needed to work with our ministry eDOT. Isn’t God great?

What things has God been doing in your life to prepare you for what He has called you to do? If you say “Nothing”, then I suggest you look closer.