Praying and waiting....

So after a strange turn of events something pretty awesome happened today. I was online last night looking up different volunteer programs that i was interested in and there ended up being a job opening at one of them. I applied on a spur of the moment kind of thing figuring that I had a long shot at it and I probably wouldnt even get a call from them. Well it so happens that they did call today and after talking with the lady for about 15 minutes they want me to come in for an interview next week. Now who is to say i will even get offered the job but it has me really thinking alot. The job is a nursing position at a pro-life pregnancy center in columbus at the branch near osu campus. They focus on being supportive and offering resources to girls to try and prevent as many abortions as possible and to help aid girls with healthy prenatal care and support. Its an amazing ministry and I know the Lord has done amazing things through this just by the countless testimonies and women that they have served. So since the call today i have been weighing the goods and the bads and there are definitely both. The major bad is that its a 55 minute drive. With gas prices low now it wouldnt be so bad but I doubt they will stay this way and the drive would add 2+ hours of travel time each day. It would also require me to work more days a week. My job now allows me to work 2, 12 hours shifts a week which is nice to have extra days off. However, the job in columbus the hours are really good. The hours are monday tuesday 10-5, wednesday 12-5, thursday off and friday 9-3:30. It would definitely be a huge adjustment and I am thinking about all the logical reasons why it would not be a good idea but then again I feel like this would be a huge and amazing opportunity to do something i might really love. I love nursing but my heart isnt into doing hospital nursing forever, i feel like the Lord wants to use me in a different way. I have a passion and have wanted to work in nursing for a womens ministry for as long as i can remember and i have talked to scott about it often so part of me thinks maybe Lord this is it? Right now there are alot of uncertainties and its all just ideas like i said i might not even get the job but regardless of whether its this job or another I really feel like the Lord is afirming to me that He wants to use me in something different. I pray that the Lord will close the doors that should be closed and keep open the ones that needs to be open and that I will have the clarity to see His plan and be still enough to hear His voice........

We voted!!!!!

Wow...this year is definitely a historical election. Regardless of the outcome our world will take a new direction. Either we will have the first African American President or the first woman Vice President. Scott and I have been talking about the election over the past few days alot and i have felt pretty calm about things. I know alot of people are freaking out and thinking our world is going to come crashing down because of the outcome of 11-4-08. I have felt peace because i know that although we may elect a new leader of the US today we will still have the same ruler of the world and that is a God so much bigger and wiser than any president, male, female, black or white. Only time will tell the tests before us but that has been the case for years and years. Life is so unpredictable and each day we have to live as if its our last and live as if our country is being led by God and not man. I thank God today for having the privilege and the freedom as a woman, christian and an american citizen to vote freely for the things that are important to me.

Because it was such a huge election we wanted to take this leap of faith together as a family and decided that we would vote together. Macie is so young and doesnt really get the impact that this day will have on our country but we wanted to include her in this time anyways. So after scott got out of school the 3 of us went over and voted. We all got stickers and wanted to capture this moment in time...I hope its a day in history that macie will look back on someday with proudness as an american citizen.