In the midst of school, I am now 50 days away from being a married woman! How exciting is it to know that God placed two hearts together to become one family in 50 days! As we are reading through some relationship books recommended by our pastor who is marrying us, we are gaining more and more respect for each other and things are coming together slowly.
Our house is coming together, Benton continues to work on it while I am in school and when I am home, I like to go over and straighten up and help decorate! I even tried to do some yard work one day.
Also going on right now, is I am working on second-round dietetic internship applications, and man is it a lot of work during the hardest week of school ever! I know God has a plan for me, but I just had such a good feeling about the University of Northern Colorado and then I didn't get matched. So now, I am applying for three or four more and will find out in the next few weeks!
If I don't get matched, I will be looking for jobs and beginning graduate school in the fall! Also, I will be reapplying for the fall round of internships which begins in January of next year.
I trust God with this though, and even though I do not understand it right now, he knows best and knows exactly what will happen after graduation.
Currently, my great aunt June is passing away pretty quickly. In 1912, my great-grandmother Lizzie, a twin, was born. Years later she married my great-grandad who I never met, Sam Barton. They wed and had 12 kids! 6 boys and 6 girls, 6 blonde's and 6 brunettes, 6 blue eyes and 6 brown eyes. How amazing is that?!?!?
In 2006 Granny Barton passed away at the age of 94. She outlived some of her children and some outlived her. Currently, 5 of the 6 boys have passed: David, Charles, Bobby, Donald, and Jerry. Danny is a pastor and he is still a healthy man with 4 grown children and a 2 grandkids and one on the way! As for the girls, all 6 are still alive: Vivian, Faye, Evelyn, Sue, Beth, and June. And currently, Aunt June is very sick with cancer in both lungs and pneumonia. This is such a strong family that is close and has grown even closer over the years. How sad it is to see one suffering, but I know that watching her suffer is worse than anything I've ever seen. I know that soon God will make her suffering stop, and in the midst of all this business, her brother and sisters will be together for a few days from miles and miles around, they will be together again.
How great is it that God gives us family? Family is a backbone of who we are as we grow and I love knowing that when family fails or passes that we still have our father, Jesus Christ to turn to in the midst of pain and darkness.
-ME
