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Please pray for a release from the financial pressure and university pressure. I am ### years old and a single parent. I have been studying for my BA degree for three years now, borrowing from student aid to pay for tuition, books, and daily life expenses. I am seven courses away from completing my degree, but nearly $###,### in debt now and student aid says that I have to keep studying full-time or else I will have no grace period and have to begin paying back the loan. The problem is that I am living below the poverty line and the financial pressure and school pressure and raising my kids - all their care is on my shoulders - is too much to bear any longer and I need to slow down the pace and take only one course instead of 3 to 5. I had an emotional breakdown last night. I cannot handle the pressure any more. I have been trying to tell my family and my support network that I am burning out that I cannot keep this pace up any longer - full-time school, full-time mom, working part-time - but they keep pushing me on because I get B+'s and A's they think I'm a superwoman, but I'm not. I'm human and no one understands the pressure and the pain I am feeling everyday. I'm mentally, physically, and emotionally worn out. I think they are living vicariously through me. When I get home at the end of my schoolday and from my workdays I have to pick up my books and start studying til 1am then up again by 6:45am and start the day all over again. I try to get my reading and assignments completed in between grocery shopping, cooking, laundry, picking up my boys, or driving them to where they need to be, between fixing skinned knees, or doctor appointments or helping them with their homework etc.... I have decided to quit full-time school and take only one course per term until my degree requirements are satisfied and I can graduate. My prayer request is that I will be healed of depression, and gain some joy back into my world. I also need a job, but without my degree I have no real employable skills. I was a stay-at-home mom prior to my husband leaving me five years ago... Please pray for me and my children that I will catch up on my bills and stay caught up bringing in enough to pay for all our daily expenses and need and that student aid will show favour for my situation and approve a grace period of paying back the loan after I graduate. Thank you so much. ###
