Just got back from Summit this past weekend. Fun times to be had. Just a bit of an explanation...Summit is a weekend retreat put on by Campus for Christ for university students. Alright...so I'm not a student anymore...but I'm still allowed to go. Although, I will admit...after the weekend I made the decision that this would be my last Summit ever. Why? Well....I guess it's because I don't feel like part of the "big group" anymore. It's an odd feeling. The McMaster group has gotten so huge and I don't feel as though I know anyone anymore. I have my small group of friends and that's great. We can hang out and have fun. But there's this new crop of first and second year students that I just don't connect with. It's more than likely because of the age difference. Students are getting into university so much younger now. And I've graduated and am working full time. So not only is age a big difference....but there's also a difference in maturity level. I've done the school thing. I've done the hyper school spirit thing. I've done the lets-be-friends-with-everyone-that-breathes thing. I'm just at a different point in my life.
I feel like God let me know this weekend that it's time for me to focus on my closer friends. I need to move on and embrace the new point I'm at in my life, which includes a wonderful boyfriend and a full time job. So, it's time to let go of the old and embrace the new....as cheesy as it sounds. Although, I will forever be grateful that God brought Campus for Christ into my life at a point when I really needed strong Christian fellowship.
I feel like God let me know this weekend that it's time for me to focus on my closer friends. I need to move on and embrace the new point I'm at in my life, which includes a wonderful boyfriend and a full time job. So, it's time to let go of the old and embrace the new....as cheesy as it sounds. Although, I will forever be grateful that God brought Campus for Christ into my life at a point when I really needed strong Christian fellowship.



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Tracy said…
HI Sarah,
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Nurse Overcomes Cancer—Twice—to Provide Care to Others
By Nancy Deutsch, RN, contributor
Many people yearn to make nursing their career, but few have to battle the odds like Valerie Bush.
The Independence, Kentucky, woman, who was a medical technician for six years and a nurse’s aide “on and off forever,” waited until her children were raised to return to nursing school. When she finally entered the Gateway Community and Technical College, it was unbelievably stressful. Not only was the single mother dealing with her course work, but her father died, and her youngest daughter was dealing with medical problems, including bipolar disease.
Bush, now 42 years old, was “disgustingly healthy when I started” school in 2004, but quite overweight, and she started to lose a lot of the extra girth.
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At first, Bush chalked up the weight loss and constant belching to stress, but when she shed all the weight, she found a lump in her breast. “I decided to see a doctor over break.”
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