"We are the clay and You our potter" Isa 64:8

Week four has begun at the University of Tennessee. I am just settling in to the new schedule and planning out what this semester will look like. Never did I ever imagine that on top of my weekly homework, the 4th week of my last semester in college would include a medical school interview! I only completed my secondary application for the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine about 3 weeks ago. I had just begun to relax knowing all my applications were finished when I received a call inviting me to interview with them! One year ago I was just deciding to follow God on this path, and honestly, I had little faith I would be where I am today. God's amazing grace has so guided me this past year I stand in awe of what all He has done! So, for now, I am preparing for a day-long interview on Thursday February 2nd. Please join me in praying that God would receive all the glory for whatever comes of this. Please pray that I will abide in Him for everything I need up to and at the interv...

I just returned from Passion 2012 in the Georgia Dome. It was one of those things that I had heard about and honestly only wanted to go because I knew John Piper AND Beth Moore would be speaking. I had only mentioned to my sister Julie how I would like to go, but had neither the resources to do so, nor was I around our college group enough to let our leader know I wanted to go. But I guess God wanted me there, because I ended up on the list and Monday afternoon I left with 23 others from our church to head to Atlanta. We arrived a little late but walking into the dome and seeing 45,000 people worship God was breath-taking! I remember thinking, "Oh my goodness, I wonder if this is what Heaven is going to be like?" That first night just blew me away with the bigness of this conference. The crazy thing is that from 45,000 people they were able to break us up in to community groups of a few thousand and from there groups of 8. In these small groups we were able to discuss and dig...