"Duh"

So, much has been happening in the last couple of weeks. Jon wrote about how sick Molly was in the last blog. Well, she died this past Wednesday night. She was sick for a week and in the hospital for 4 days. We found out that she had a stomach ulcer that perforated. We are okay, but we miss her. Jeffry misses her a lot too. But, if you ever need a vet that specializes in exotics, we know a guy. He is amazing. He would call us once a day and email us twice a day to let us know how Molly was doing while she was in the hospital. He is incredibly understanding and caring. We owe him two dinners for his kindness:) I hope that i am able to work with human doc's like this.

In other news, I guess it bothers me that i don't have a job yet and knowing that if i did then we wouldn't have to rely on support. Or have to humble myself and let people know about our buisness. It is scary relying on God to provide and we forget all those times when He has done it time and time again even if it was only a couple days ago. We have those 'Duh' moments often.... like of course God hasn't forgotten about us... He got us up here, He's not going to leave us to starve to death...

We don't want to use our credit card anymore so, on Tuesday night we actually scrounged up change to buy a can of beans. How pathetic. We had a wonderfully, yummy dinner.. rice, black beans, tomatoes, ranchero sauce....mmm. Sometimes I think God wants us to get to that point. It would have been so easy to go to a nice resuraunt and use the card and forget about how poor we are because we have credit.. but where is there room for God to do a miracle there? But we were complaining the whole time while we ate our dinner. Jon kept telling me.. 'well, i prayed for our daily bread. Guess i should have prayed for the rest of the week too:)'

Anyway, between Wed and Thurs, we got our miracle. We are seeing the Body of Christ actually work and serve one another and that has been our vision since we were first married. I think that God is teaching us that the Body isn't as far off as we thought it was. We received a check for $200, a card that had $45, and an envelope that had $500. Oh, and $20 randomly from an awesome guy here that we just met. We are astounded everyday. Our bills are covered and we have moolah for groceries:)

We seriously had nothing in the bank before all of this. Living life as a christian is such an adventure. Oh! and yesterday (thurs) I overheard a woman from church talking about,"nurses she works with." I slid my way into the conversation ever so politely and i found out that she is a social worker at New York Presbyterian!! I told her my situation about passing boards and thinking that it was going to be a breeze getting an RN position. Eight hospitals ignoring me, two leads that were dead ends, and an article in the newpaper that read,"Too many RNs and too few positions in the North East" later.... I was discouraged. At least I am not the only one struggling though. I read about this girl online that sent out 36 resumes already and still no job!!

Anyway, she told me that it is not true and hospitals have made it extremely hard for new grads to get positions, but the openings are there in multitude. She gave me her email and told me to send her my resume and that she would take it herself to HR. I am praying that this is the miracle. I have applied to this hospital 3 times.... and had a nursing recruiter try and get me in the back door. If i get a job here it would be totally God.

So, this is what's been happening lately... I also told Walter, the director of Citivision, that i would help out the camp next week since they are going to be short a nurse. I'm going to be chillin with nature and swimming in the pool while jon melts away on the asphault.. heehee If you guys have anything that you want us to pray about just lettuce know. Ha. let us.. lettuce... get it? Wow.. i really need a hobby.

Lots of love to you! Tammy