sorry I've been away...

I haven't been posting as much lately. Life has been getting away from me. School just started and I really don't know how this semester is going to go. I've never done an online program before and there doesn't seem to be much guidance. I just have to trust God on this one... I'll try to post more often...

Change...

Well, I did it... today was the last day at my job... It was a hard thing to do. I was in my comfort zone. I was one of the senior nurses there... conditions there have caused me to evaluate what is important right now in my life. Plus, it's more money and less of a commute...
This faith thing is hard. I'm nervous because I've left this job before and lasted 2 months. The job was unbearable. I mean, you shouldn't have to work near tears all day. It was really a bad situation. Yet God worked some good out of it. I ended up ministering there a few weeks ago and the nurses there remembered me. It helped in with dealing with the family... My steps are ordered by God...

I'll be in serious prayer on this thing. It feels more final this time around. I'm going to the same job but different hospital. I'll be going to a job where I can jump in after seeing how they are going to do things. It's a new program...I actually left the hospital 10 years ago. God is bringing me full circle.

Change, change...A wonderful change has come over my life. I usually don't run from change. I have to be careful, because I'll be impulsive and change at the drop of a hat. Sometimes I might be making up for something that is missing in my life. ((A closer relationship with God.)) I have to look at the patterns in my life. I've been like that ever since I could remember. The best change that has come over my life was when I excepted Christ as my Savior.
My life has changed so much. He has picked me up, turned me around, placed my feet on solid ground...

I once was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore, very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more. But the Master of the sea heard my dispairing cry, from the waters deep within, now safe am I...
Love lifted me!!!

Scripture focus of the day...

Romans 8:18-28 ((The Message))

18 -21That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens.

22 -25All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it's not only around us; it's within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We're also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.

26 -28Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson

Really take the time to read this. I really like how this version reads. My pastor preached on this today, about how pain is the body’s way of letting us know that something is wrong. The same thing happens to us spiritually… Are things going wrong in your life? Stop and see what God might be saying in the midst of everything… you might be ready to give birth to possibility and to purpose… Just hang on…Trouble don’t last always…

It's been a long time, I shouldn't have kept you...

Okay, it's been a while since I last posted. Life has been getting away from me. School has started for my daughter, I'm going to a new job (thank you Jesus), lots of ministry... you name it, it's been going on. God is good. He is worthy to be praised...

I start school online in a few weeks. I'm actually looking forward to it, believe it or not. I actually cherish going to class and learning. We'll see how I do not going to a physical class. This will be interesting. I'm just going to have to trust God. I have a good feeling about this. I feel like God is setting me up for something. Don't know what it is. I just thank God for my family and friends. It helps so much to have a husband who loves me and cares and a loving daughter. Plus having a best friend who is a minister allows me to be able to bounce all kinds of things off of her... anyway, I'm having an ADD moment right now, I'm so all over the place... I'll talk to you soon...