Update.

Since I have wandered away from the blogging realm for almost one month(!), I decided I should return and give an update on my life... especially since I probably won't be writing much in the next 7 weeks.

Returning to school after spring break meant encountering a new nursing clinical rotation (this time Public Health) and realizing that any taste of free time and freedom is long gone. During these last seven weeks of my junior year I have an gigantic amount of reading to do, 3 papers to write, one group paper to edit (and design an accompanying powerpoint), 1 regular test, 3 finals, and one "Junior Exam" (an exam for all junior year nursing students before entering the senior year---just mostly intimidating, that's all). To give an idea of the amount of reading for Public Health alone, most weeks I have 2 chapters in at least two textbooks, plus 3-4 chapters to read in "Ebola," a fiction book required for the class. That's not to mention the book I have to read for Christian Worldview Integration or the reading I have to do each week for Concepts of Gerontology and Nursing Care for Diverse Populations, the two other classes I have this semester.

Needless to say, I'm slightly overwhelmed. Ah. I would certainly appreciate your prayers for miraculous time management, efficiency, effectiveness and energy. We sang an extremely applicable and appropriate song this morning in chapel---the old, beautiful hymn "I Need Thee Every Hour." I'll close with those words, for His strength is truly the only way I will survive these weeks in one piece with a sane mind.

I need thee, oh I need Thee
Every hour I need Thee
Oh, bless me now my Savior
I come to Thee