This story starts with Drama Daughter, age 18, who wants to go to college. She wanted to go away to college last fall (2008) since she finished high school in May 2008. But the money wasn’t there. So she continued working at the bookstore, full time in the summer, thirty-two hours a week as fall and spring came along. She took six hours of basic classes at the local junior college, all she could afford time-wise and monetarily.
We prayed.

In the late fall she began to apply to colleges. However, Drama Daughter wants to study, well, theater/drama, both the technical aspects and acting. She’s been involved in some excellent homeschool drama classes and productions, and she wants to use her gifts to support herself and to bless others. We can’t envision or find a secular college drama program that would help her to fulfill those purposes. So, she applied to three private Christian colleges. Private Christian colleges cost a lot of money.
We prayed.

We filled out the FAFSA. DD auditioned for the drama programs at the three colleges. She was accepted. She received her financial aid commitments from the colleges. Long story short, after putting together all the scholarships, loans, work study commitments, our own resources, DD’s saved up money, and anything else we could come up with, we are about $4000 short for the first year. Actually, one college suggests that we borrow almost the entire amount, about $15,000 per semester. Needless to say, that college is not an option. Drama Daughter is very disappointed, but willing to accept God’s answer whatever that may be.

In the meantime, Artiste Daughter, age 20, is trying to save up about $2000 so that she can go on a mission trip to Slovakia this summer. She will be participating in English camps that are an outreach and evangelism tool for the struggling evangelical church in the city of Trencin. We are excited for this opportunity for her and trying to find ways to help her put together the financial resources for this trip.

Why am I telling you all of this? I don’t usually share this much personal information on the blog, and if you want to skip over and get to the books and poetry, go right ahead. However, I was, again, praying, and I got the idea for the general outline of this post. I told DD and AD that I believe that my God has all the resources He needs to provide for us abundantly. If He wants Drama Daughter in college this fall and if He wants Artiste Daughter in Slovakia, He can provide. And if He wants to use you and this blog to do that providing, He can do that, too.

So, I’m not asking for contributions (although if any of you have an extra thousand or so lying around . . . ). I am asking that if you have any Amazon shopping to do that you click through from Semicolon this month. I get a very small percentage of your purchase in ad revenue if you do. Frankly, I don’t see how it would be enough to make up what the two girls need even if you do, but God also more than once multiplied fishes and bread loaves, didn’t he?

Summarizing: If you click on the banner above and shop at Amazon for anything, I will get a few cents on the dollar for every purchase you make. This money will go to the two girls mentioned above to finance either college or mission trip.

Also, if you have been thinking about purchasing a copy of my book Picture Book Preschool, please go ahead and do it. This money will also go toward either college or mission trip expenses.

If you’ve made it this far into this very long post, thank you for reading. If you have suggestions or encouragement, leave us a comment. If you have time to pray for my two lovely daughters, please do.