Judgelondon Steverson

Life As A U S Coast Guard Officer, UCGC Vol 3, Nr 4 Judgelondon Steverson

Only in America could my Life Story have been possible. God has blessed me and my family. We rose from abject poverty and climbed several rungs up the Socio-Economic Ladder. I was the first person in my family to complete high school, college and graduate school. My brother and sister have post- graduate educational degrees. None of us have ever been on Welfare. We have had 40-year careers as professionals. We are parents and grand parents. Not one of our children has ever been in jail or in the hospital, except to deliver a baby. Not one person in our family has a criminal record. We own our own homes. Some own several. We have traveled and seen most of the Free World. Until we left home our parents had never traveled more than 50 miles from where they were born. Several of our Grand Parents were born, lived and died in the same house that their parents had lived in. In one generation we went from the cotton field to the Board Room and the Court Room. We were raised as Bible base Christian Missionary Baptists. We learned to pray before the age of three. Our Mother prayed hard and constantly. She taught us that God will make a way some how. And she was correct. Her prayers have been answered to the fourth generation. Her Faith was not been in vain. Only in America, a Christian Constitutional Republic could our story have been possible.