Autobiographical 1

Salvation

I remember as a child, not being particularly fond of reading and even less so of spelling. To me reading was tortuous especially when the teacher would ask me to read aloud. I was always so nervous that I would mess up the simplest of words and the other children giggle as made repeated attempts. My mother was going to collage while I was growing up and didn’t really take much interest in my studies. She would ask if I had homework and I would simply reply, no and she would continue with her studies. I continued to squeak by in school.
It was when I was just going into 6th grade when I took an interest in the bible. I took down the book and dusted it off and started reading. Many of he words in that old King James Bible were hard to read but I just kept at it and learned to understand what I was reading. It wasn’t that I couldn’t read I was just slow and disinterested. I looked at many of the books that we had at school and wondered what it had to do with my life. The bible however, was something that I could read that meant something to me. One of the great benefits was that it increased my ability to understand what I was reading in all the other subjects and did better in school. Someone told me later that the original reason the public school system was created was to teach children to read at the level of the King James Bible, and that that is why King James is considered twelfth grade reading. Whether it is true or not Reading that old bible helped me develop my literacy.