Options?

One piece of advice I would give young people is unless you are quite certain where you've been called to spend your life, don't go to college. College education has become burdensome, and the debt is crushing many young people.

If you are in your twenties look at your options.

There is a need for people who can provide services such as mechanics, electricians, plumbers, and there are many trade schools who will help people get into those areas.

In my own family the people with the least education are the ones who are making the best wages. Some of them started as young people in construction, lawn care, landscaping.

They gained their experience on the job and have done quite well.

My youngest son went into truck driving. For a pittance, he went to truck driving school and within a year had his loan paid off and was free and clear of debt.

My mother and her brother both didn't finish high school. Even though their oldest sister did they all knew that didn't make her smarter. Back in their day 'higher' education didn't mean a lot.

In my day, when I came of age I wasn't enamored with the college scene, and I never encouraged my kids to go to college. If they wanted to go to college they had to pay for it themselves.

Looking at what colleges are doing to our young people and our society, it was the Lord's leading that redeemed my family from such an awful fate.

Perhaps we had too much of the independent spirit. Our people always seemed to be the entrepreneurs of the world. I don't believe there were any pirates amongst us, but there were a number of them that went their own ways.

Galatians 5:1 "For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage."

2 Peter 2:20 "For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first."