my sister wrote me an e-mail. its a wonder i recieved it becuase i hardly ever check that account, and i read it all the way through his time as opposed to just scaning through it like i usually do with lenghty e-mails. i hope she doesnt mind me sharing...

" April,

I'm happy your discovering why you are at Calvin Crest. but i don't like being "boxed" as you have done in the last paragraph of your latest blog entery. I am married, yes. I hope to have kids one day, yes. But God made me for somthing different as well. He made us all for somthing different, married or not married. Kids or no kids. I have worked so hard to be where I am at in my life and I know God has me in Nursing school for a reason. Just because I have a husband and am working dilligently in school dosn't mean i'm not supposed to do somthing extra ordinary.

We are all called to somthing different. I am where I am at in my life because God led me there. Not because I chose "the same old road". The way you phrase your last entery was quite condesending to me. I know you didn't mean for it to be, but it was, and I thought I should let you know my take on the situation. It just sounded to me like you were looking down your nose at people who have taken a road that is different from your own.

You are special, and God made you for a wonderfull purpose, we all have wonderfull purposes that a loving God has made us for. We are all in the body of Christ. You couldn't operate verry effeciently without your eyes or legs. And neither could I.

I guess that's it. I'm not mad, just.... bothered by your words. Maybe hurt by them too... I donno.

~Heathyrre~ "

heather, thanks for letting me know what you thought. im glad hat you did, becuase you are right in your thoughts.

i didnt mean to offend anyone in the last paragraph of my last blog entry. i apologize if i did. sometimes my words dont come through writing in the same way i was thinking it in my head. i dont mean to, or want to look down my nose at other peoples paths.

i believe in ministry. most of all, i believe in a "meet them where they are at" ministry. in the same way a child will pay more attention to an adult who will bend down on their knees to look the child in their eyes when they talk to them without loosing sight of the fact that they are the adult, i belive that we as christians should try to reach non-christians in a way that they will understand and respect. and i belive, that for a ministry like that to be sucesful, it takes all kinds.

so, i am made for somethin different. but so are you. and God knew what He was doing when he made us the way that we are, when he put us in the places in life where we are at, when he put my sister in the nursing program at the college and me in a kitchen in the mountains. God has disbursed Hi children all throughout the earth, in all different situations, careers, familes, whatever, for a reason, to tell other people about His love that he has for us. and we all need eachother in that.

so again, i apologize if i offended anyone. and thank you heather, for thinking that one through.

peace be in your hearts...