Trust Becomes Real

So, I resume working as a nurse in late 1999 and begin to seriously look at seminary. I promise God to submit my paper work so that I can start in the fall of 2000. I manage, however, to drag my feet so that I just barely make the deadline, but I do!

Now, it has been some 20 years since I have been in school... I have purused the catalogue and I tell God, "I am doing this, but to start off, I need your help. Please give me something easy for the first semester...like New Testament!" So, I go to the orientation and find out the only classes I can take are Old Testament I and Christian History II! OLD TESTAMENT... I know very little about the Old Testament, only the stories one learns in Sunday school and Vacation Bible School. Also, I didn't want to take the second half of Christian History before I took the first half!

I had decided I would only take one class to ease me back into school. So, although I did it begrudingly, ("God, Old Testament wasn't what I wanted!!!"), I signed up for Old Testament. Someone then remarked to me, "Well, what better place to begin your seminary experience than at the beginning!"

I had debated telling a lot of people that I had actually started, especially those I was working with. That way, if I failed out...no one would know! However, that didn't last. I decided I needed the prayers more than anything else, and that failure was not an option. Afterall, God had gotten me this far... and I was trusting that God would continue to lead me!