I realized it has been a very long time since I have written on here, and a lot has happened in my life in the last few months. It's exciting to see God working in me and teaching me things!
I got into the nursing program! My acceptance letter came this past Friday.. .yay! :)
Sometimes I forget to be patient and wait for God to direct me... but this time, I waited... and He showed me nursing.. and now I was accepted into the nursing program! :)
I just thought this picture was gorgeous. My boyfriend John took it, when we were at Devil's Lake National Park with a group of people from InterVarsity Christian Fellowship this past Saturday. :)
It's been quite a long while since I wrote on here, and so much has happened. I've been in school, and doing homework and whatnot almost constantly... and in my off-times, I've got to have FUN.... like singing in the worship team at InterVarsity, and being involved in a biblestudy, and a couple of weeks ago, I got to visit a very special person who goes to school in Madison. Details are still light, because we're going exceptionally slowly, but this special person is a handsome and very considerate and caring prince, and he likes me and is interested in beginning a relationship with me.... so we're in the very early budding stages of that- still just getting to know each other better and better.
This prince is so very different than other people I have known, and he is a real encouragement to me- he's keeping on top of me asking me if I've exercised today, or what I did... and asks me if I have homework I should get done, when I've been being distracted talking to him... and we've been doing devotions "together"- on the same passage, working through what we get out of it and then sharing it with each other. Besides that, we're both really committed to KEEPING God at the center of our budding relationship, because we don't want to just get stuck in the rut of going for what I want when I want it, and because I want it, regardless of whether it's what GOD's best is for me.
Here I am at school... thinking about... life. :)
Some people say college isn't "real life"... and I guess I'd have to agree with them... because college is different than real life, in the way that it allows me to focus on PEOPLE and learning, rather than on work, and drudgery, and tasks, and making money, etc... that I'm so bound in, focused on "real life".
It also has allowed me to become really involved socially with several groups- my biblestudy group, gospel-choir, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and Students for Life. I'm on the list of musicians/singers for the IV worship team, and I'm an all-around get-stuff-done person in the SFL group... and it was interesting... The Gospel Choir director, Chris Taylor, has asked me if I'd be interesting in accompanying the Gospel Choir on piano... but... I really do like singing... so I don't know about that... I told him I'd think about it and get back to him later... and I do think I am going to talk to someone in IV about leading a biblestudy myself next semester...
I also tried some things so far that I've never done before...
- I went swing dancing last week...and it was SO much fun! I really want to do it again sometime, now.
- I let my friend Dave try to teach me to tango... that was fun...and funny. lol. But he's a good dancer, so it wasn't all that awkward, and I came to the conclusion that with practice, I'd really enjoy dancing. :)
Well.. it's time to get back to LIVING life... instead of talking about it. :)
~Danette
Here I am, back at school again... only this year it seems better, for some reason. It might have to do with the fact that I'm involved with several campus organizations this time around... or maybe it's the fact that I've grown to be a bit more outgoing in the last year or so... Or.. maybe it's just due to how much God has done in my life in the past year.
Every day I am amazed at who God is, and what He has done for me... how much he's taught me since January... and really- I keep having it reinforced for me that I am in the right place right now... It's really cool when God does that.
I'm still kind of wishing that He'd see fit to give me some particular guy friend... but I am going to be patient and wait for Him to bring one of those to me on His time. I've already learned that taking things into my own hands just hurts me.
This semester is looking to be tough- with my science classes, working, and social stuff too... I'm also praying and thinking about dropping my anthropology class or not, because I want to have more time for working/studying without having to give up my social time...
I've learned from experience... social time is engergizing for me- if I don't have any, life isn't quite so much fun and vibrant. It gets a bit lonely.
Well- I have biology class in a little bit... so I should log off of the computer soon... so I think I'll say goodbye for now, and write again later!
~Danette
