A cup of coffee...

A cup of coffee made my morning as I sat relaxing on the couch. I have not been able to do this in so long I had almost forgotten how much I enjoy it. Still sore from the craziest greek week ever (3 football games and 3 soccer games = too much for this 23 year old body!)

(WE GOT FIRST IN BOTH THESE SPORTS! PHI MU HELL YEAH!)

and my first biological systematics test and my senior exit exam, I needed this quiet morning to relax and kick up my heels! I could not be more grateful for this relaxing time and it could not come on a better day!

Signed, sealed, and mailed...

Signed, sealed, and mailed. My application for the GSU nursing program was mailed today! (It is pending my acceptance to GSU and them recieving all the transcripts and test results I have requested to be sent.) This has been a long process that I am so glad is finally over. It is liberating and scary all at the same time. I am scared of the rejection that may come but I know that God is in control and He is going to put me exactly where He wants me but even being confident in this knowledge rejection is still a very real feeling. Now I can only pray that God will open and close the doors around me so I know clearly what His plan is!

Well it's official...

Well it's official...I can graduate! Today was dooms day in so many ways. To graduate I had to PASS the exit exam. The passing score is 140...I have no idea what this is out of or why this is the magic number. As I sat in a computer lab with fellow students all around me I prayed my way through 2 hours and 150 questions that the last 5 years of my life had been preparing me for...Now let me be honest here for a min...many of my nights studying were really cram sessions and retention was not always my intention. Let me just tell you as I sat there and guessed at 50% of these questions I had a since of peace that God was in control! What an incredible feeling that is! God brought me out of the dooms day not with flying colors but with a perfect score of 140! Praise the Lord! He is an incredible God and never ceases to reassure me that I Corinthians 4:13 is oh so very true!

Just another day at the office...

Yesterday, was just another day at the office, so I thought. It has been an absolutely crazy week. I have been sick with a terrible cold and two of my coworkers have been out of the office. One of them is out of town the other is out with a sick baby. So in the middle of the day yesterday Pope starts screaming from the back office that a car is on fire next door, i drop everything and go running to the back to see what is going on. Low and behold there is a late model suburban on fire. 911 was called and it took them 15mins to respond. A volunteer fireman showed up but there was nothing he could do because he didn't have any equipment.

The fire was put out and this is what was left...

The crazy thing about this is that the damage could have been minor had the fire department responded in a more timely manor.

God is teaching me...

As my undergraduate college journey comes to an end I find that God is teaching me more now than ever before.

God has recently opened the door for me to start a Bible study for a group of girls. Tonight was our first time together and God never ceases to amaze me in his ability to orchestrate exactly what I need. I never believed that I would learn more from these girls than they would learn from me but I already have. Tonight we started with sharing our lives with each other, openly and honestly sharing all of life's joys and sorrows, are mistakes and our victories. We met on common ground, encouraging each other, crying with each other, laughing with each other. Our lives are entertwined in ways I did not think imaginable.

I have been study Malachi in my quiet time and as a group we decided that is where our journey together would begin. God recently lead me to this incredible little book that gets looked over. Through the few short pages that make up this Old Testament book I have been convicted and loved by the Lord in mighty ways. He talks about the priest and how their sacrifices were not the best and through this I have been convicted that I have not been giving God my best. He has been getting my leftovers instead of a plate made for the King. I am thankful that my God can continue to forgive me for the same things over and over again. I have so much yet to learn and though this is in some ways a scary thing I am so excited to see what is waiting around the corner!

DM for the kids...

DM for the kids 2009 has come to close with $30,244.75 riased for CMN; the largest amount yet!