Moving to Texas

So-meanwhile back at the ranch :) I had two - four weeks to pack up, sell stuff, give away other stuff , send in an application for acceptance to the College and move. I moved our personal belonging and myself and 4 children in with my parents till time to leave for Texas. I was so confident that I was doing "God's will" that I never doubted that I would be accepted and I was not wrong.


That 10 days at my parents were interesting. Now I feel like I must add a disclaimer of sorts. I have always had a good work ethic and was a "giver" not ever expecting anything in return. My parents were not pleased ,of course, that I was moving the children 1300 miles away without already having a place to move them into there, with a job lined up etc etc etc. I understood their concern.


One night before going to sleep I lay it all before God and ended my prayer with "God someway somehow let them know that this is your will."  In addition to the given uncertainties I had $500 with which to start this adventure after paying off my home and a few other loose ends. I had such an assurance in my heart that God was in control that this did not deter me. My mother was beside herself. I knew it was not comforting for her to hear that I was going (which meant taking her grandchildren) even if I had to wait for God's provision from place to place going across country. I had seen his hand in marvelous ways in the recent past and believed with  a faith that only comes from him.


My last night there I was in the bedroom when someone knocked on the door. I answered it. A man asked if my father was home, I informed him he was and that I would get him. I called to my dad in the lower level family room that someone was at the door for him and I went back to the bedroom.


A short while later there was a knock on the bedroom door and there stood my parents with tears running down their face. The man at the door had said to my father "I was praying and your daughter came to my mind. Is she going to Bible school"? Dad answered "yes." The man went on to say that "God put it on my heart to pay her way and handed them an envelope." If this would have come from my friends or even church people I am convinced that it would have not had the impact that this interaction provided. Not only did they sense that it was God's will from this most unlikely source but then the provision was right there in there hand as well.


God had been so mindful of us all. The man had asked for my parents even though I was standing at the door. I do not know all that was said but I do know that God ministered to them in that meeting.


There was enough in that envelope to get us to Texas, pay my tuition and books and to get an apartment and have food and gas till I got my 1st pay. What a mighty God we serve!!!! I was exceedingly thankful!


I found an apartment and was able to move in my first day in Ft Worth-a Friday. Ft Worth being a multi-college area one could rent the apartments either furnished or unfurnished. I rented furnished of course. The furniture company was there so quickly I thought for sure they spend their day "circling" the apartment complexes-haha.


Next I bought the Sunday paper and spread it out on the table and looked at all the nursing jobs and told God "You know which one is for me...please.... I ask that you direct my steps and I again am thankful." Monday I went to the one that seemed to "stick" out to me and was hired on the spot.


One of the nurses that I worked with there became a good friend and she told me one time "Bonnie, if you ever write a book you will have to write it as fiction because no one will believe all these things that happen to you :) She saw a few of them first hand herself.


My boast is in the Lord and in Him alone do I place my trust!