The Path to Greatness

Over the years, I've learned that I can do hard things.

I've buried an angel baby.
     But I discovered that families are forever.

I've lost 80 pounds.
     And I found that I have more willpower than I expected.

I've had a baby 3 months premature.
     Noodle's birth gave me empathy and understanding for friends who go through the same thing.

I've dealt with some serious health issues.
     These gave me a new found appreciation for the wonder of the human body.

I've felt lost and without purpose.
     That's when I felt God's love and knew why I am here.

I've endured economic hardship and lost our house of eight years.
     It taught me that a house is not a home without love and my family in it, and money does not make happiness.

I've started nursing school.
     All things that I have learned up to this point have come together through this last adventure.
     It has been my forever family that has stepped up to support me.
     It has been my willpower to push through hours-long study sessions that challenged my sanity.
     It has been empathy and understanding for others that are going through this with me that brings me newfound friendships.
     It has been the appreciation of the human body that keeps me from getting weirded out from some of the procedures I have do to.
     It has been God's love and knowing His purpose for me which pulled me through some very stressful weeks of school.
     It has been the love of my family, especially my best friend/husband, that brings me happiness at the end of each week when I finally get a few moments to be with them.

I believe this latest challenge will prove to be the one thing that will change not only my life, but the life of my family in so many ways.  On the days when I feel like I have nothing left to give, or when the grade I get is not the grade I studied for, or when the Adversary reminds me that I'm not being enough of a mother/wife, I have to dig down deep.....remember who I am, who I'm meant to be and know that God allows life be difficult for a reason.

Because "it's the hard that makes it great."