Let the Cramming Begin

Today is my first seated final. I am taking my math final early so I can enjoy time with my mom. I'm a ball of nerves over finals this week. I'm not 100% sure why I feel this way. I have been doing great all semester and should end up with a decent GPA.

The past few nights I have spent reviewing material. Reading, reading, reading, highlighting and did I mention reading? There are been a few times when I just sit and stare at the page, I see the words, recognize what they are but comprehended nothing. I think that is because my brain is too full.

This semester has been a road full of bumps. For some reason the semester felt fairly easy. I have had to do the work and study but the process has seemed easy. That is proof that God's timing is perfect.



I had been struggling with the decision to go back to school for a long time. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to go to school for. Lot's of prayer led me to where I am. I surprised many people when I told them I was going to nursing school. It was something I never talked about. I always knew I was supposed to work with kids, I just thought it was going to end up in the teaching field. That changed when I home schooled my boys. If I couldn't get through a school day, without being frazzled, with children that I loved I didn't see how I would get through a day with children that weren't mine. So, the prayerful journey began.

I think for once in my life I actually waited on God. I didn't give Him my list of 'to do's' and my list of wants in the prayers, I just prayed for Him to show me the path I was supposed to go on. Before Women of Faith last year I was pretty sure that I was supposed to go into nursing. At WoF that message became clear.

So today as I cram my brain full of last minute reminders of biology terms and how they work together in the body I am reminded that I am on a path that God put in place. I can look back at the semester and see His hand guiding me the whole time. Especially in the beginning when I didn't know how I would juggle family, military life, and school.

Tonight will be filled with reading, highlighting, staring at the page waiting for my brain to not be so full so I can absorb more information, and more reading. The reward will be a great sense of accomplishment and showing my kids how hard work pays off. Let the cramming(I mean studying) begin.