Church Planting, Elections, Health Care & Conjoined Twins

I can’t seem to think coherently enough to put together a normal stream of thought, but here is a random list of things going on around me lately...

The Hilltop Expression of Soma Communities officially kicked off last Sunday. Mike and I (mostly Mike) are excited to be leading out in what God is doing around us. It’s been a long journey from the summer night in 2005 when we realized God had given us a passion for church planting in Tacoma. We had a lot of learning to do along the way. The road hasn’t been an easy one. Just trying to live in the Hilltop has been challenging in a million different ways. By God’s grace we’re still here and planning to stay until He tells us something different.

It’s election season, and thank God it’s almost over. I get so tired of all the rhetoric. I have a hard time thinking of any concrete way that having one party in charge rather than another has ever changed the ordinary routine of my life. Unlike my children, who miss out on 18 days of actual learning in school due to the WASL. Now if someone could get the streets in T-Town fixed, that would be something. Maybe I could make it more than 3 days without blowing a tire.

Mike’s car has now been stolen and returned to us unscathed three times in eight years. This morning the doors were opened and the glove box had been rifled through. As if we would be dumb enough to keep anything of value in that car. Seriously.

I’m over halfway through nursing school. Less than 20 weeks of class time until my preceptorship. I’m at Madigan Army Medical Center this quarter, where they have so many staff & students floating around it’s hard to get them to let you practice anything. I’m finding myself anxious to get in there and make sure I have the knowledge and skills to get the job done. I don’t want to graduate and have no clue what I’m supposed to do.

On that note, I’m also anxious to start work in my job as a nurse tech in the critical care unit at St. Joe’s. But my license application has been at the State for over 6 weeks now and is still “pending” according to the HPQA website. Do I blame that on the democrats, republicans, or just the Health Professional Quality Assurance people at the Department of Health?

And lastly, again on the health care note, I got an email two days ago from my good friend and mentor Sackie Kwalalon in Liberia. His niece Yamah gave birth to conjoined twins on October 8. Right now they are looking at me to find them a way to come to the U.S. and be evaluated. I’m a nursing student, not a miracle worker. Please pray with me that I can find someone who knows what to do. And pray for Yamah and her babies. It’s a miracle they made it this far.