Oprah's Goodbye
Today a television staple, an icon, said goodbye to her audience. Oprah Winfrey starts a chapter in her life. No doubt running the OWN network and I am sure specials and movies. The world is her oyster.
I wish I could have had the same opportunity to say goodbye to my audience, last August. Management is usally afraid to let an announcer do their last show for fear they will play "Take This Job and Shove It" or something simular. Some people knew I was leaving, because I had went back to school. Some expected me to leave. When I went into the ministry, I was asked if I was going to leave. The Lord hadn't given me the green light yet. I wanted to leave after my mom died, but Matt panicked, he didn't know what to do, so I stayed. I knew with going back to school, I would have to either fish or cut bait with WJLS. I got my sign that my season was coming to an end in the middle of August. So I began to seek the Lord and my answer was given to me three days before they walked in and said that they were eliminating my job.
That's why I said OK, no tears and no outburst. I just wished I could have said something to the faithful audience. I appreciated their prayers over the years. The prayers had helped me grow spiritually, I took many of my first steps into being a Godly woman with the audience. I had seen the deaths of three of my grandparents while there. They helped me through my mom's illness and death. I also met my husband there. God blessed me to buy a home with the income I earned there. I was very thankful for the opportunites that I recieved, while there. I got a chance to meet and interview some of the Top performers in Southern Gospel Music. I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost there. There were times we had prayer meetings there. In 1984, we used to call the place the "The Upper Room".
As the Lord is moving me from one place to another, I would appreciate your prayers. I would have played the song "Friends" and left quietly. Or I would have said in the words of Rev. Wesley Grose, "If I don't see you down here I'll meet you on the other side of life as the eternal ages roll." That's what he used to say af the end of his broadcast.
I got a few phone calls and a few cards. I thought I would get more. I also thought that I would get other opportunities to do other things; I didn't. I know that God put me on the shelf to rest and to heal. There is a song by John Waller called "While I'm Waiting" that describes how I feel.
As a 19 year old girl, when I started my first radio job, I had interned with the best in Beckley. I did interviews and public affairs. People told me I had a good voice. Of course I needed work. No one helped me. My mom made me practice into a tape recorder, reading news and different things. She always told me to know twice as much and work twice as hard as others.
I was cleaning my study room upstairs and I ran across two things. In 1994, there was an article about me in the paper about me trying to change the image of Christian radio. There I sat at the control board smiling. The next thing I ran across was an inter-office memo, back in 1980. It said that they were making a change in the programming department. One that they thought would make the station run more smoothly. It was WBKW then, and it said that they were appointing me as operations assistant. To oversee the daily running of the station, working with the engineers to make sure equipment was fixed, checking the programming logs for errors, ect. I just looked at these things. It seems like another life now.
When God has another plan, walk on and just say yes. When your dreams have turned to ashes, trust in his special grace we don't have to understand. God has another plan. It is shaping and molding me into His perfected vessel.
I wish I could have had the same opportunity to say goodbye to my audience, last August. Management is usally afraid to let an announcer do their last show for fear they will play "Take This Job and Shove It" or something simular. Some people knew I was leaving, because I had went back to school. Some expected me to leave. When I went into the ministry, I was asked if I was going to leave. The Lord hadn't given me the green light yet. I wanted to leave after my mom died, but Matt panicked, he didn't know what to do, so I stayed. I knew with going back to school, I would have to either fish or cut bait with WJLS. I got my sign that my season was coming to an end in the middle of August. So I began to seek the Lord and my answer was given to me three days before they walked in and said that they were eliminating my job.
That's why I said OK, no tears and no outburst. I just wished I could have said something to the faithful audience. I appreciated their prayers over the years. The prayers had helped me grow spiritually, I took many of my first steps into being a Godly woman with the audience. I had seen the deaths of three of my grandparents while there. They helped me through my mom's illness and death. I also met my husband there. God blessed me to buy a home with the income I earned there. I was very thankful for the opportunites that I recieved, while there. I got a chance to meet and interview some of the Top performers in Southern Gospel Music. I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost there. There were times we had prayer meetings there. In 1984, we used to call the place the "The Upper Room".
As the Lord is moving me from one place to another, I would appreciate your prayers. I would have played the song "Friends" and left quietly. Or I would have said in the words of Rev. Wesley Grose, "If I don't see you down here I'll meet you on the other side of life as the eternal ages roll." That's what he used to say af the end of his broadcast.
I got a few phone calls and a few cards. I thought I would get more. I also thought that I would get other opportunities to do other things; I didn't. I know that God put me on the shelf to rest and to heal. There is a song by John Waller called "While I'm Waiting" that describes how I feel.
As a 19 year old girl, when I started my first radio job, I had interned with the best in Beckley. I did interviews and public affairs. People told me I had a good voice. Of course I needed work. No one helped me. My mom made me practice into a tape recorder, reading news and different things. She always told me to know twice as much and work twice as hard as others.
I was cleaning my study room upstairs and I ran across two things. In 1994, there was an article about me in the paper about me trying to change the image of Christian radio. There I sat at the control board smiling. The next thing I ran across was an inter-office memo, back in 1980. It said that they were making a change in the programming department. One that they thought would make the station run more smoothly. It was WBKW then, and it said that they were appointing me as operations assistant. To oversee the daily running of the station, working with the engineers to make sure equipment was fixed, checking the programming logs for errors, ect. I just looked at these things. It seems like another life now.
When God has another plan, walk on and just say yes. When your dreams have turned to ashes, trust in his special grace we don't have to understand. God has another plan. It is shaping and molding me into His perfected vessel.
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