Oh hello my lovlies.

Today is a wonderful day. Beautiful in fact. Windy as all get out but warm nonetheless.

I have a terrible headache, but that's for a good reason. I finally gave up soda...and no not for good.

Honestly I couldn't give it up totally. But it's been 1 week and I haven't faltered. I did have coffee twice, but once because I was driving home from work and couldn't stay awake and two...well it's just delicious.

I wanted to give up soda because as much as I know about what it does to your body, I will thank myself later in life.

So I have decided to treat myself to it once a week or so. I honestly can tell a difference in how I feel during the day. The only bad part is the really bad headaches in the morning...which I will conquer.

In other news, I am SO proud of myself. I just had my second test of the semester...and I got an A!

If you know anything about nursing school testing...you know its down right near impossible to get an A. I feel so incredibly blessed.

When I went in to take this test, I just prayed to the Lord that the knowledge I have been learning would

be manifested onto the test.

I wasn't asking for an A...I was basically asking to pass. And to my surprise...and A was evident.

Now in my joy of course all my nursing friends are asking each other how we did...

and when they found out I made an A, you can only imagine the looks on their faces.

It's a bitter sweet feeling when you know your friends only got B's and C's and your the one with the best grade...

But honestly...I don't brag. I won't tell unless someone asks. (Of course I told Arielle and my dad)

But here's the thing...A's don't make good nurses...neither do B's or C's. It's the person

who makes a good nurse. It's the character and caring nature that makes a good nurse.

Sure you have to go through this stuff to get to get there, but in the end no patient of mine is going

to ask "Did you get A's in nursing school...because if you didn't I don't want you being my nurse"

Most of the time the patients want someone who is going to care for them...and probably ask "have you ever done this before" LOL

I will also take this as a lesson to BE that good nurse. You have no idea how many

nurses out there have that air about them that says "I am better than you" Makes me ill.

I think I say this because I am an aide and get the poop jobs...literally. ha!

So I'm going to get off that soap box...

SO I have been reading Micah...and let me tell ya...I can't decipher the meaning very well.

Honestly that is how I feel about a lot of the bible. (That is why I love bible studies too...they bring to light what I didn't understand) For example...in church we are going over Nehemiah and last Sunday we went over chapter 3. I won't lie...when I come to passages like this...and those with geneology of people...I skip. Lesson learned...Do Not Skip.

It's important stuff friends.

So my downfall though is understanding what the Lord means in theses passages. So like in Micah what I can gather is about the coming Messiah...nuff said.

I know that the Lord puts these kinds of passages in here because if he made it black and white for us...then what would be the point of furthering our knowledge of Him and learning lessons and growing in the Spirit. I guess I just realized in myself I need to pray about these things and about these passages that I don't understand.

The Lord will reveal them in his own time.

Anyway I will end with this awesome verse that is more like a question but stuck out to me...and casting crowns (hehe)

"He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God"