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I was hiking in Colorado recently with two friends, one of which is from Colorado and has journeyed this particular hike hundreds of times in her life. Needless to say, this friend served as our guide for the hike where we went down into a canyon and then back up onto a ridge. After a good amount of time had passed, we finally made it to the top where we could look off into the canyon that we had just ventured through. It was a surreal view looking back and seeing how far we had come to get to the top where we now stood.  The thing about hiking is that it is optional to go up, but it is not optional to come back down.  So we continued making our way across the ridge and back into the canyon to come full circle from where we had started. As we passed trees and plants and rocks, I began to notice a trend. Every once in a while, I would see a stack of rocks that looked like they were placed there for a specific reason. These rocks weren’t just randomly piled up from some...

I recently passed my NCLEX, which, for those of you who don't know, is a big, long, hard test that graduate nurses have to take in order to obtain their nursing license and get a job. When we pass this test, we are also awarded two letters to put behind our name: RN. RN. Registered Nurse.  These may just seem like two letters to most people, maybe even an acronym for when you want something "right now" (which, if we're being honest isn't far off from what most people think of our job description.)  However, these two letters mean a whole lot more to me and so many other caring people than just "Registered Nurse."  See, to me, these two letters hold a lot of weight.  They hold the weight of two very hard and challenging years with many books studied, many late nights and early mornings,  many cups of coffee,  many firsts and exposure to tragedy, death, new life, old people, young people, mentally ill people, and everything in b...

We move too fast to see the things that are standing still. We too focused on getting somewhere to recognize what is steadfast, immovable, and everlasting. We are so distracted by what could be that we fail to understand  what already is  and has been  and will be forever true. We search and we pray for answers that, in the grand scheme of things, don't really matter  while forgetting to look up and realize the evidence  of answers  to questions  that seem too simply to ask. So instead of finding the right answers to the wrong questions, we stop seeking. We have become so callous-- So callous that we look up at the moon and the stars  and all we see is a twinkle  that we will make time to appreciate tomorrow. All we see is a god that we will make time to worship tomorrow. They say that the days are evil and if that is true,  I don't want any more. Because I want my days to be goo...