It has been a while since we have updated our blog and we plan on continuing to update you(at least for our moms' sake) on the unending adventures of our lives! We had a difficult time finding the words to express the roller coaster we have been on the past several months. Jordan had been interviewing all over the country for dental school and had been placed on several wait lists. Mean while, I finished up my final semester in the nursing program and anxiously studied for the national boards. By the end of June neither of us anticipated that we would be accepted to dental school this year. Jordan renewed his contract with his job at Wells Fargo and reapplied to 15 dental schools. I continued working at Children's Hospital as a Registered Nurse and we decided to move from Fresno to Clovis. Two funerals, a move, and a wedding later we found out we had been accepted to both Buffalo and Philadelphia dental schools. We booked our flight to Philadelphia... decided it wasn't for us and drove to Buffalo, NY. We put down our deposit at the school, found an apartment in 1 day and drove back to Philadelphia. When we returned to Clovis, we again packed as much as we could into a shipping pod and sent it to New York. I continued working at Children's for several weeks and Jordan left for school. After sleeping his first night in New York in a sleeping bag on our apartment floor, several dental students (strangers at the time) helped Jordan move our stuff into our new apartment(I suspect these amazing people will be friends for life). I moved to New York last week and have had several job interviews since. Through this whirlwind time, which we thought might be a calm summer, we are praying for the Lord's will to be done with our lives. I don't think that we fully knew the extent of our faith until we had to leave everything we knew and move across the country with 2 weeks notice. We went from two very good jobs, to being unemployed and taking out large student loans. What an incredible lesson we have learned in trusting the Lord! Faith means trust... don't worry. If he has called us, then he will take care of us. With this faith and trust, an amazing hope for the future has been instilled in us. It has been brought to our attention how unimportant our previous concerns were and that we should continuously be focusing our eyes on him; for we are here on earth to do his work... are we not? Our love for the Lord continues to grow with each "trying and trusting" situation we go through, and our love for each other has grown as well. Through 6 years of dating and 1 year of marriage we always knew we were each other's best friends, but the past several weeks we have had to rely on the Lord and each other more than ever. With the Lord in charge, our lives will always be beautiful and full of Faith, Hope and Love... no matter where we are or what we have.
" And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him" - Hebrews 11:6
