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t the age of fifteen, Catherine Marshall felt planted inside of me: to go to Agnes Scott College
God leading her to submit her life and [in Atlanta] and to get ready for the wonderful man
Ahuman desires to Him. In ‘Meeting God At who would come from far away to marry me.
Every Turn’, she writes: “Two dreams were Already I had been accepted at Agnes Scott. Even
though I had saved some money...we were still
hundreds of dollars short of what was needed.”
By graduation from high school, the Depression
had devastated the economy and the effects were
reflected in her father’s salary as a pastor of a
small church.
One evening her mother found her lying across
her bed sobbing. “She sat down beside me and
said, ‘You and I are going to deal with this right
now... I know it’s right for you to go to College.
Every problem has a solution. Let’s ask God to tell
us how to bring this dream to
reality.’’’
“A sob deep in my throat made
me pause. I knew what I now had
to do. ‘And Lord, I prayed, I turn
this dream over to You. I give it
up. It’s in Your hands. You
decide.’”
This first moment of youthful
honesty set the tone for her
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