Monday, August 11, 2008
Arkansas the land of...no Target
I miss my back aisles with clearance items that aren't really on sale they just put a red sticker on it to make you think it is... and the wonderful cereals in those cool boxes with the snappy lids...and their cheap decorating stuff that no one really needs but that once you see it there you just have to have...
Well i've had a week to come to terms with it and over that week I've realized, yet again, how perfectly God provides.
If you haven't heard my apartment story let me tell you... There is some sort of "Natural Gas Boom" in Central Arkansas meaning tons and tons of people are moving here to drill for the natural gas...
Do you drill for gas? or is it vapor... how can you drill for vapor? I have no idea...I am putting my dad to shame right now I can just tell.
Anyway when we came up to look for an apartment but no one had any openings that they knew of in August. We had a long list of apartments in the area that we went to look at, many of which my father said he wouldn't even let the dog live in, let alone me...by myself in an area where I knew no one... A few of them we couldn't even find so we ended up signing a form for one lady who said she might have an opening but really couldn't give us any definate answers ...so we left no apartment lease in hand and headed back to Texas.
Well the summer went on and I called that lady we had talked to about the possible apartment multiple times with still no definate answer. One day I got a call from a lady in Searcy who said there was an apartment that was open starting in July, I jumped on it. I had no idea where this was or what it looked like but if she was claiming there was an opening in July and I could for sure sign a lease for it I was all over it. To shorten things because I can tell i'm getting very long winded, the lady was so helpful letting me rent it but not move in until August, making the carpet cleaners come back to clean it 2x before I moved it and even left the apartment painted because it matched my furniture!
Well God provided, not only that but the apartment is gorgeous, is less than 3 blocks to the PA building, about 1 mile to the grocery store, and about 2 miles from a church, has an open field for the dog to run in, and is right down the street from the fire station- so far i've only set the fire alarm off once.
He provided in such abundance!
There were three "fears"- although fear isn't the best word...more like uneasiness, but that's not grammatically correct I'm pretty sure..."three uneasinesses" I had about moving here, away from College Station...
1. where am I going to live
2. Is there going to be a chuch there that challenges me like Living hope did? or that has people that were as welcoming and as much a community as Living hope was?
3. How the heck am I going to make it through PA school and retain all the knowledge I need to practice medicine?! I mean after I'm out people are going to expect me to know things!?
Well he answered number one with my apartment, and number two has been answed through Fellowship Bible Church, so what in me makes me think he would put me in this school knowing that without a doubt this was his plan for me, and not help me through these next 2 1/2 years! ?
Answer- he wouldn't!
"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." Deut. 31:6
"The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.” Zeph. 3:17
"For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future." Jer. 29:11
What part of those verses-and the many others with the same message I love how God realizes how dense we are and put the important stuff in over and over again- says God won't take care of me... none!
So even though there is no Target in this town I can handle it because God has provided for me everything I need, and he will continue to provide the strength, the brain power, and whatever else I need to succeed as I follow Him and His plan!
Heck who better to study the human body and how it functions than the creator of it!
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