Caleb Heavner, RN

AND HE PASSED! After 24 hours of waiting, and waiting, and waiting to find out (I never thought there could be so much waiting within 24 hours) we've received the news that Caleb is now a licensed nurse. Wahoo!!! We are looking forward to celebrating this weekend the two wonderful events of him becoming a licensed nurse and us being married for a year. These are such joyful times we will always remember.

I have said before Caleb isn’t going to apply for jobs in South Carolina unless an amazing job in the emergency room here in Greenville’s main hospital opened up. Well, that might just happen now. Caleb has been talking with some contacts he has and it’s possible jobs may be available for him to apply for in a matter of days. Caleb spent his last two weeks of nursing school in a practicum at Greenville Memorial downtown ER and loved those two weeks there. He made contact with the manager who said he should definitely apply if jobs became available.

Let me tell you that my heart and mind has been set on the fact that we’d be in Colorado so very soon even by now I thought we could have possibly already moved to Colorado. When Caleb first told me today there may be jobs opening here in the ER I was thinking “no, no, no then we’ll be waiting another year to get to Colorado :( Hmph, some person I am complaining and thinking only about what I want. Shortly after this, I realized my whole purpose of my blog is to chronicle our journeys as we “walk through the open doors” and here I was already not wanting to walk through the first possible open door.

I would love if Caleb was offered a job in Colorado and we move soon, but if accepting a job in Greenville is the open door we are supposed to walk through then we will RUN right through and stay here for another year. I will run through the open door with thankfulness for God's providing. God’s ways are truly higher than our ways and I believe in his sovereignty. He can see the big pictures of our lives, and knows the best place for us to be at the right times. It is our job to trust in Him and keep our eyes focused on Him and not ourselves. It was so easy for me to immediately turn to thinking “me, me, me and my plans” in a matter of minutes of hearing things may not be as I was thinking they would be.

I told someone today that this first year of marriage in Greenville was fun and incredible so why can’t a second year of marriage in Greenville be just as fun and even more incredible. For now we’ll be PATIENT (yes not always the easiest thing to do) and wait to see where we will go. I'm excited and so proud of my husband!