Nursing School is no more!

Nursing School is OVER! During school it felt like it would never end and now looking back it went by so fast! Thanks to Travis for the patience when the house wasn’t clean, and the many days when I said hi after an 8 hour day and then went into the other room and studied until 10. Thanks for all of the encouragement and prayer from my husband, family, and friends who truly knew how difficult it was for me during school. Above all, thank you God for who you are. You continually make me fall deeper in love with you. What blows my mind is that you are so good…but what we see in you is only the FRINGES of how good you are!

One thing I learned really fast at the beginning was that Nursing School wasn’t something I enjoyed:

1. I wanted to spend more time with Travis
2. I wanted to spend more time with my friends and family
3. I wish I could have spent more time with my Ma before she passed this year
4. My house wasn’t clean all the time
5. I wasn’t the wife I wanted to be (cleaning, cooking, and ideal time for Travis)
6. Being surrounded by “bad company”
7. 99% of clinical time was in the hospital (were I don’t want to work)
8. I could go on but pointing out why I didn’t like school isn’t the point I’m trying to make…

John Piper: “The fact is that nobody would be able to persevere in faith if we did not first have hope that God is for us and will bring us through. In fact, that is at the heart of the very faith that is being tested. What gets us through tribulation is hope. We don't first get hope by producing perseverance and proven character. We have hope first, and only then can we endure trial to the glory of God.”

CONGRATS TO STEPHANIE, KRISTEN, AND CHANDRA! WE ARE ALL DONE WITH NURSING SCHOOL! Pictures will be posted SOON!