Hey all three of you,

I am sorry for the lack of writing. This is an update blog! Life has certainly been a whirlwind. I just got back from CA where I learned lots of doula magic, saw old friends, and met some new ones. School has been a mixture of ridiculously simple and unimaginably difficult. While overwhelmed, I am at last learning practical science things that will actually help people. The team and I are conjuring ideas up for fund raising to Uganda. I am thinking car wash, community garage sale, maybe doing a few really cheap family portraits. Do any of your guys have ideas?

For the first time in my life I feel completely out of control, incapable. And it is a good thing. Truly relying on the only Thing I can ever truly rely on. With this newfound knowledge, I can plunge forward. Summer will not be any sort of break. I take the NLN (Nursing test) in July, have summer school for six weeks, the tougher part of Anatomy and Physiology (which I currently can't even fathom) which I must get an A in to get into nursing school, and then immediately leave for Uganda. I have to somewhere in there send in my nursing application, and need to get DONA certified before I leave, which means lots of books a few more classes.

The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,

he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.

Even though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.

Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.