God is in Control

Now that the election is behind us and forward we must go and remember that God is in control!!!....here are a few thoughts from another blog of a friend of a friend "Whether you personally like it or not, Barack Obama is our president now. As such, he deserves the prayer, support and respect due to someone in that office. Paul commands us to honor and serve our rulers as the ministers of God (so far, of course, as conscience allows) Speaking disrespectfully of them is an offense against God and a bad testimony to the name of Christ. (1 Peter 2; Romans 13). He is our president and he has my prayer and respectful support." May we all have this thought process as we continue to pray for our country and the new leaders coming into office!

It has been a bit of a tough, yet enlightening week for me. A friend of mine reminded me at our bible study Wednesday night that it is just funny how God's timing works and of course works perfectly. With J's deployment, it is hard to not have him here yet I think about the timing of this deployment and praise God for it. School has literally consumed me and all of my time and with J being deployed during my busiest months of school is a relief to know God is in control of it all. I have said this many many times, that I wondered if I was in His will in going to nursing school. Yes, I have wanted this for many years, but when the time came I had to wonder if this was really what I was to be doing. And as each day comes and goes I am quickly reminded that I am in His will in doing this whole nursing thing and I love it more and more each day....although I wish J was here to celebrate it all with me, but he will be home soon and my schedule should be way calmer when he gets home!! So Praise God for His timing and for His calling on our lives uring this season as a military family and a nursing student!!

As in thinking about God's timing it is really awesome to sit back and ponder on the timing and the people He surrounds me with during each season of my life. We are doing a study called a Walk Across the Room (I highly recommend this study if you are in a life group!!) But the Lord has been speaking to me a lot about this lately. And to keep this secretly without telling this person's personal business too much. I just ask that you pray for this friend of mine. I do not know for sure, but I believe they are thinking of getting an abortion very soon. I do not quite understand this, but just pray that I have the words and actions to speak to her through God's love. It is crazy this all came up this week, because we started our OB rotation and watched a video called "The Miracle of Life!" I will not go into more detail but just ask for prayer for her as well as myself. Also prayer for me as I obey God and walk across the room to this person as well as a few others on my prayer list.