HC I'm right here?

HC I'm trying my best not to stress?
HC it ain't workin'

HC my down time at work has been null and void?

HC I wish I was in school again?
HC you don't have to go to class?
HC you have to go to work?
HC no work, no eat?

HC I didn't think I would be missed?
HC 1savvydiva gets a big hug from me?
HC I know she needs it, just like I need it too?

HC most people are never satisfied?
HC myself included?
HC I should focus on the positive in my life?
HC my loving and supportive family?
HC my handsome and successful significant other who adores me just as much as I adore him?
HC my church family and pastor who are always encouraging me to fulfill my dreams?
HC I've been blessed with the bestest girlfriends in the world?
HC I'm starting to get sappy over here?

HC today I'm a bowl of emotions?

HC I am glad you are lurking!

HC yeah..."Heaven I need a hug!" LOL
HC I am going thru some thangs right now too, but I am trying to keep my mind of off it...hence the sudden rash of posts by me!
HC it's good that you have a support system...
HC sometimes I feel like I have to deal with stuff alone...
HC I figure that just makes me stronger

HC we're gonna have so much fun? :D
HC I need to be napping?
HC I had to check this thread first?
HC I am yawnign as I type?
HC I'll bbl?

HC this is about to be a long one!!!
 

HC I am soooo upset...
HC now that I know what's up, I feel the need to come and share with my GC family...
HC most of ya'll know that I am in Nursing School, and that I also work full-time third shift...
HC last Thursday I came home at like 7:30-8am and I had a class at 10am, I decided to make some phone calls to set up a dentist appt...
HC I must have been dead-dog tired because I fell asleep (sitting up I might add) on the couch and missed my class....
HC I didn't have anymore absences...
HC I begged my professor to let me make it up, write a paper, come to one of her other sections...
HC she said NO (hence she deserves a PIMP SLAP!)
HC she said she would have to withdraw me from her course...
HC since this is a co-requisite for my clinical course I have to withdraw from that as well???
HC WTF??
HC this means that not only do I have to withdraw, and retake this class (UM... IT'S AFTER MIDTERMS!!!)...
HC since this clinical is not offered over the summer, I have to wait until Fall...
HC this puts my graduation back 9 months!!!!
HC I am so upset!
HC I can't afford to quit my job...but I am so tired of this shit...
HC I work my butt off and I was making all A's, and I have to withdraw over some stupid 'crappola'. :mad:
HC I know that I have to take responsibility...
HC I just can't believe all of this consequence because I was tired and fell asleep.

HC that's not all...
HC do you remember when I said I wanted to blow up Financial Aid?
HC I had to put in an appeal because they said that I "had not made satisfactory academic progress"?
HC HELLO I have like an overall 3.5-3.6 something like that...what the hell do you mean?
HC anyway the appeal was "approved", but I had to sign some paper that said that it was a contingent approval, contingent upon me make a C or better in all of my classes and not withdrawing from any classes..
HC Yep...since I have to withdraw from those classes, I lose my financial aid...

HC RECAP...
a) I have to withdraw from Pharmacology
b) since this is a co-requisite, I have to withdraw from clinicals
c) they don't offer this clinical over the summer
d) I have to take it again in the Fall, and I cannot progress until then
e) graduation is set back 9 months
f) no longer eligible for financial aid

HC I AM SCREWED!!!!

Re: HC this is about to be a long one!!!
 

HC keep ya head up!
HC I can relate because for me, 2003 has been FOS so far? :mad:
HC this is dedicated to you
HC thsi should probably go in the Motivational thread, but hey...
HC

Problems are Sometimes Blessings


What is God telling you with the problems that He blesses you with?

The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you - depending on how you respond to them. Unfortunately, most people fail to see how God wants to use problems for good in their lives. They react foolishly and resent their problems rather than pausing to consider what benefit they might bring.

Here are five ways God wants to use the problems in your life:

1. God uses problems to DIRECT you. Sometimes God must light a fire under you to get you moving. Problems often point us in a new direction and motivate us to change. Is God trying to get your attention? "Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways." Proverbs 20:30

2. God uses problems to INSPECT you. People are like tea bags ... if you want to know what's inside them, just drop them into hot water! Has God tested your faith with a problem? What do problems reveal about you? "When you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience." James 1:2-3

3. God uses problems to CORRECT you. Some lessons we learn only through pain and failure. It's likely that as a child your parents told you not to touch a hot stove. But you probably learned by being burned. Sometimes we only learn the value of something...health, money, a relationship...by losing it. "It was the best thing that could have happened to me, for it taught me to pay attention to your laws." Psalm 119:71-72

4. God uses problems to PROTECT you. A problem can be a blessing in disguise if it prevents you from being harmed by something more serious. Last year a friend was fired for refusing to do something unethical that his boss had asked him to do. His unemployment was a problem - but it saved him from being convicted and sent to prison a year later when management's actions were eventually discovered. "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good...” Genesis 50:20

5. God uses problems to PERFECT you. Problems, when responded to correctly, are character builders. God is far more interested in your character than your comfort. Your relationship to God and your character are the only two things you're going to take with you into eternity. "We can rejoice when we run into problems ... they help us learn to be patient. And patience develops strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady." Romans 5:3-4

Here's the point:
God is at work in your life - even when you do not recognize it or
understand it. But it's much easier and profitable when you cooperate with Him.

HC HK that is in the MOTIVATIONAL thread? :D

HC PROBLEMS come to test you?
HC TESTS strengthen you?
HC I have been TESTED?
HC TESTS perfect you and your faith?
HC I am going to Bible STudy tonight for the first time in over a year?

HC I reck on eyes that GOD is the ONLY ONE who can help me, save me, strengthen me, love me in the BEST way ever?

HC I need to SURRENDER to his will?
HC DELIGHT YOURSELF in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart?

HC that's some good stuff!

HC I forgot to say 1SavvyDiva, I am sorry that you are going through right now?

HC what your PROFESSOR meant for bad, GOD has some good for you?
HC you have to trust him?

HC I was not going to share but I am now?
HC I learned a long time ago that you have to be TESTED to have a TESTIMONY?
HC you all know I left a good teaching job to come to Charlotte because I thought it was time to leave Ohio?
HC well I got down here and I was excited?
HC I kept my enthusiasm even when challenges came?
HC but by October I called home to my mother and told her I was ready to leave teaching?
HC I was no longer ENTHUSED about it?
HC I told her some things?
HC I kept procastinating?
HC GOD placed things in my way to force my hand?
HC in February something happened?
HC I was placed on paid administrative leave?
HC I was not upset?
HC well not TOO MUCH?
HC I was asked to pack up my room in the middle of the day?
HC I did while my students watched me and wondered?
HC it was one of my better classes?
HC as they left that day so many of them thanked me for teaching them?
HC last Tuesday I was called to come in for my hearing on WEDNESDAY (a week ago)?

HC I was TERRIFIED?
HC I PRAYED?
HC I PRAYED?
HC I PRAYED?
HC I told GOD I TRUST YOU?
HC don't TALK about it, BE ABOUT IT?
HC I went to the hearing?
HC I was offered my job back?
HC I knew I could not go back?
HC I knew my principal did not want me back?
HC I sat in that hearing and could not accept what he offered me?
HC I drove home?
HC I listened to NO WEAPON, and THE BATTLE IS NOT YOURS over and over and over?
HC I got home and called my mom?
HC she said you know what you have to do?
HC she said TRUST HIM to SUPPLY ALL YOUR NEEDS?
HC so I resigned?

HC the night before I resigned I found out one of my former students in Ohio had been murdered trying to rob a store?
HC for the FIRST TIME I regretted leaving my FORMER high school?
HC I missed my former students?
HC I did not vocalize?
HC the other day, the little boy's best friend e-mailed me and "tried to remind me who he was" :o?
HC once you are in my HEART, you are there FOREVER?
HC he told me he missed me?
HC I can rejoice because he learned from me?
HC I honestly do not care if my students know plot structure?
HC I wanted them to have a heart and express themselves?

HC so here I am unemployed?
HC former teacher?
HC job economy sucks?
HC YET will I praise HIM?
HC student loans?
HC received a default notice?
HC last week AFTER I resigned?
HC YET will I praise HIM?
HC I called my alma mater?
HC the man helped me?
HC no more default?
HC YET will I praise HIM?

HC my new signature was CONFIRMATION that while every now and then I think did I really NEED to quit?
HC NO MORE LOOKING BACK?

HC TEST = TESTIMONY?

HC you can make it?
HC you will make it?
HC trust HIM?
HC HE is so much bigger than your problems?
HC JOB? :D

HC time to go work out?

HC this was myy scripture for the morning?
HC it seems so appropriate?


Wednesday March 12, 2003

Today's Promise:

It shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Isaiah 65:24 / KJV


HC God already knows what we need, before we can even think of what to ask Him for?
HC it's already worked out?
HC :)

HC Thanks ya'll!

HC HK1974, CT4, you are truly a blessing!
HC I was feeling really bad and I called my best friend?
HC before I could tell her what was going on I asked her where she was?
HC she was on her way to get fitted for her cap and gown...
HC she was so excited I didn't want to bring her down with all my mess...
HC as happy as I am for her, I hung up the phone and cried!
HC I tried to go to sleep, but my brain won't stop working...
HC I said to myself "I am going to go work some of this stress off"
HC I came back to check GC on my way out the door!
HC I saw these beautiful posts...and at the end of it all you are saying time to go work out!

HC I lovesssssess ya'll!
HC I will be alright!
HC I know it...
HC last semester when I wasn't eligible for financial aid until I went thru this appeal, I got a scholarship out of nowhere that held my classes...
HC if he can do it once, he can do it again?
HC 9 more months isn't a long time...
HC maybe HE was just saying my schedule was too heavy this semester?
HC after I have cried and prayed, I feel like a weight is lifted off of me?

HC did I say I lovesssess ya'll?

HC time to go work out?

HC 1savvydiva, you will be ok!
HC we are all praying for you!!!
HC *hugs*!!:D :D

HC I was moved by everyone's post to 1savvydiva?
HC no test, no testimony?
HC it's good to know there are sistas right here in GC when you need them?
HC 1savvydiva, you may not see it know, but it's working for your good?
HC be encouraged?
HC to all my GC fam who's going through, weeping only endures for a night?

HC WHASSUP GC?!!!!
HC I'm still MIA for a while.
HC Skeee-Weeeee Sorors!
HC Soror Steeltrap - I need to email you. It's been a while.
HC CT4 - I'm feeling you on the unemployment thing.
HC it's been 1 month since I lost my job.
HC HE PROVIDES!
HC y'all are gonna trip when i tell you this...
HC I've been working at my Church since I lost my job.
HC despite all of the ghetto-fabulousness...it's been pretty good.
HC flexible hours...and the work that I've been doing is appreciated.
HC I've also been considering going back to Grad School.

HC I don't have a direct connection to the Internet up here in the Church.
HC not even DSL!
HC that's the main reason why I haven't been on GC much.
HC dial-up is soooo sllllooooowwww.

HC on another note...
HC a close friend of mine died last week after a year-long fight with colon cancer.
HC she's a few years older than me (mid-30's) and has 2 kids in each of my kids' classes (age 6 & 8).
HC my heart was truly crushed.
HC my comfort is knowing that she is with the Lord now.
HC my pain is looking in the faces of her two boys.
HC Sorors and Sisterfriends....don't take your young age and good health for granted....my friend was young, healthy, never drank, smoke, etc...and ended up with colon cancer.

HC I'm 'bouts to post to some other threads.
HC where's the Sorority Life thread?
HC I'm loving those DZO girls.

HC see ya.

HC these posts have been so empowering?
HC Saavy, there's a blessing after every trial?
HC I know that the Lord is getting ready to bless your situation right now?
HC stay strong...the sun will shine again?
HC I love GC for the strength that I receive?
HC CT4, very touching story?
HC I will pray your strength as well?
HC you all pray for me too?
HC I have two jobs and I'm still broke?
HC they really don't pay well?
HC there's a blessing after every trial?
HC I love you all on GC?
HC I'm very emotional right now?

HC I feel like a proud parent???
 

HC one of my students who was failing got a 62/60 on her Geography project? :D
HC she feels SO proud of herself??
HC I am VERY proud of her?
HC I told her she could do this?
HC she is gonna pass to the next grade?!

HC NEXT?
HC they are doing an update on my school on Oprah today?
HC in the beginning of the show, they showed TWO of my students?
HC they are asking people if they want autographs? LOL
HC you haven't missed it yet (EST)?
HC they are still showing other stuff?
HC yall can see some of my baybays? :D