Past, Present and Future

It's been quite a while since I last wrote. Since then, lots has been going on. For one, Impact is over, and I have moved back home with my parents. Mommy and Daddy just closed on a house in Bishop, GA, about 10 minutes away from where we have been living the past year. We are currently in the process of moving. This house is a huge blessing to us. It is just one of many "God moments" that have been happening to me and my family the past month. I want to share those moments with you. So here it goes...

Impact graduation took place May 8. I moved out and back in with my parents the following day, May 9. Three days later, Tuesday the 12, I had a job interview at a nursing home, a half a mile from our new house in Bishop, GA. I got a job as a Certified Nursing Assistant. I took the semester class through my high school in my senior year. I started working full time Monday, May 18.

Monday, May 11, I was driving home from running errands and my cell phone rang. I was greeted with the message that I had been moved off the waiting list to full acceptance to my number one choice for a college. Which one is that you might ask? I am proud to say that this fall I will be an incoming freshman at THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA IN ATHENS. It's really cool to be going to the same college as my parents went to, as well as many of my aunts and uncles. The more I am in Athens, the more I like it.

Just that news was a tremendous gift from God in itself. What comes next is just icing on the cake. I petitioned to get in-state tuition and was approved (without in-state tuition, we couldn't afford UGA). I also asked to be exempt from the rule that freshman have to live on campus and was also granted that request. This saves us a lot of money in housing cost as well as not having to pay for a meal plan. The result, I will be living at home this fall!

As far as my future plans (you've already been told the past and present part of this blog), I will be majoring in Chemistry with a Pre-Medicine interest. The fact that I can even pursue this major is a God thing as well. All other colleges that I was looking at did not have pre-med. The only way I could do this degree program was through UGA. After my four years of undergraduate work, I will mostly likely attend a medical college in GA, Lord willing, that's the key phrase. The ultimate end goal for medicine study is in obstetrics.

God is so good! I can't say it any other way. It's been neat the past couple of weeks to see these things fall in to place. Even though moving away from WI last year (wow, it's almost been 1 year that I've lived in GA), looking back I can see God working in it all. I have seen that no matter what the cost, following Christ is worth it, even if you can't see it all right away, or even on this earth.