A Missed Opportunity Today, as I was leaving Kroger, a man by the exit asked me if I was a nurse. I said yes, while continuing to slowly leave the store. Then he said the kindest thing! He thanked me for being a nurse, something very few people have ever done, and never a random
To recap: Life is a journey, a windy road full of ups and downs, roadblocks and potholes. You know the destination, but you don’t know when you’ll get there. Sometimes you deal with something along the journey for just a season. Sometimes for several seasons. Sometimes for an indefinite amount of time. For me, the
Sometimes the struggles you face on the journey of life are struggles that don’t go away after a season. Sometimes they are there to stay.
That man in the above picture is my Papa Gary. When I was in Nepal, I was informed that something had been found on his thyroid, and it turned out to be cancer. I know this is not a new thought, but cancer sucks! Finding this out when you’re almost 10,000 miles away from home
I wish I could tell you all you’ll only ever have good times, but unfortunately I can’t. We live in an imperfect world filled with not so good times, also. In those moments you can choose to wallow or you can look around for encouragement. The Good A few weeks ago, I graduated from Charleston
I am a major control freak. I have been for…pretty much forever. If I’m not in control, then I’m overwhelmed and frazzled and stressed. I’ve surrendered things to God over and over, but I guess it wasn’t a true surrender, because I took back the control at the first sign of things turning hard. It’s
This semester, I’m in a class called Community Nursing. It’s kind of thought of as a class that’s not super important…one of those easy-breezy nursing classes. At first, I wasn’t too thrilled about it. I didn’t see how it would help me in my nursing career. But, I was wrong! God is using this class
This may seem like a strange title for a blog. (side note: this was the title for my very first blog) But for me, it’s not at all! Grace has become sort of the theme for my life recently. I am human and make mistakes…but I am a child of God and He shows me