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Have you ever looked around and thought ...
"This is most certainly NOT how I expected things to turn out"
I do it every day.
But - not in a bad way - just, in the Unknown way.
6 years ago, HAD YOU told me I'd be a mom and basking in the life and passion of my 4 year old daughter, drinking in her smiles and laughter, listening to her pray to Jesus in her own precious way, I'd say...
Nah, Kids aren't my thing. I have NO patience for them.
YET - here I am, a mother.
and loving every minute of it.
6 years ago, HAD YOU told me I'd be married to Roger {my boyfriend at the time}, falling in step with him as the spiritual leader of our family, trusting him incessantly, knowing him so completely, choosing to love him every single day, I'd say...
Get Real! Roger? He's a heroin addict junkie who is an atheist and we're ONLY together out of convenience and fun. I'm not gonna marry him! NOPE.
YET - we've been married for 3 years.
He covers his family with prayer and seeks God in all that he does. He tells me he is being called to work with U-Turn for Christ - the program that turned our lives upside down.
He is the one I laugh with, cry with, experience life with, and I wouldn't change a single thing.
Good or bad.
6 years ago, HAD YOU told me I'd be a nurse, working in a hospital around poop, puke, blood, sticking people with needles/catheters/NG tubes, cleaning up and caring for people that were too sick to care for themselves, I'd say...
GROSS! I couldn't do that.
YET - here I am, a registered nurse.
** this one is still a bit surreal **
Today was my 1st day of orientation starting my brand new journey as a nurse.
Today, I sat in a classroom full of people {5 others from my very own class} learning all I could about the company I said "yes" to.
Speaker after speaker, power points slowly blurring into one another, I kept looking down at my ID badge and those 2 letters - RN.
OH! what a journey it has been.
and oh, what a ways i have to go.
As faithful as God is...
He makes ALL THINGS work together for our good.
Amen.