Little Mr. Forgetful

When I was younger I always grew up with the Little Mr. and Little Miss. books. My mom always would read them to my sister and I. I also remember her telling me that sometimes she would have a rather hard time getting through a book because she found them sooo funny, but we where to young to get the humor. Anywho I have to say that I feel like Little Mr. Forgetful over these past few days.

Little Mr. Forgetful and I can relate on two things.
He is small and so am I
He is forgetful and I am forgetful

I do often forget where my keys are and where my phone is but what is even more dreadful is I have forgotten what GRACE is.
I forget that it means that no matter how bad I mess up that I can still go to him and tell him I am sorry. It also means that I can still go to my bible and hear from his word.
His small voice though can only be heard when I geniunely accept the fact that he has given me grace.

This is sooo challenging for me. I am coming from a world where a mistake is a mistake and will always be a mistake. In the acedemia world and espically in the nursing world mistakes can not simply be washed away. But with Jesus they are! When he looks at me after I have asked him for forgiveness he does not see that stain, that dirtyness. What I still wrestle with is the fact that he still can see my concequences, why doesn't he see the sin?

It something that I am really wrestling through and have yet to find the answer. But the cool thing is that he is still ready to speak through his word if I am ready to listen.

He is ready to speak, if we are ready to listen.

Made for the Job

I think God has designed me to be a nurse. I was thinking about this as I was working on an "Thinking Like a  Nurse" sheet for school. With nursing, you are active for much of the day, always on your feet, assisting one patient to the other. At the end of the shift you are required to document EVERYTHING that you did that day and EVERYTHING that the patient did that day (minus sleeping and sitting in their room by themselves) that is the ONLY thing that is not on their charting. Everything else from eating to pooping to medication to visitors to walking and anything else that you can think has to be documented. That's really the only time where a nurse gets to sit down and not be moving around. It's really a good balance for me. Documenting still hard core requires brain power but it does give your body a little bit of a break before one needs to get up and moving again.

And that is how I like things. I like that I can move around during my job and I don't have to sit all day. I think God designed me this way so I could be a nurse :)
I am thankful that he thinks of these little things while he is knitting together our DNA strands to create something he always knows will be beautiful.

HURRAY! For walking and sitting and moving and serving and nursing!

Life update

There is so much yet so little going on right now. I can't let you in on the big stuff yet but that will come soon I promise and I am super excited to share it with everyone. One the other hand very little other then the norm is going on. It is going to that time of year again when school is starting on it's wind down which means the last things that need to get done are being finished and the workload will increase rather shortly.

I was able to go home this past weekend which was rather nice but I never seem to get near as much as I do  here. Driving always takes a long time and by the time I get home I have no desire to do anything because I have been driving for 2 hrs.

Work has been challenging as well, I think I have just been doing the same job a little to long and sometimes I don't have the greatest influences around me when it comes to work. I am currently trying to re-motivate myself for this job because it does have good pay and good hours.

I have discovered that one of the challenges that I have faced this semester is laziness. To sleep a little longer, to go on facebook more often and scroll through pinterest for a little to long. It definitely has been challenging but to God's good timing and amazing grace it is almost over. He is amazing that way. Always knowing how much you can handle and then gives you a little more so that his glory may be revealed through relying on his strength to get through the day!

I have to say though I am looking forward to a change of pace and to see grass again! YAY for spring :)