Here's your sign

This is the plan:

Andrew goes to school, Stacy gets a nursing job and works. Pretty simple.

Steps necessary to execute plan:

- Stacy gets endorsement of nursing license to be able to work in the state of Illinois

- Stacy finds job

So, I'm on the first step, of getting the endorsement of my license. And this means that Arizona has to mail a paper that says I indeed have a legit license to work as a nurse. I spoke with a secretary at the Arizona Board of Nursing last week, who informed me that this paper will be mailed to the Illinois Board, not to me. 

Ok, so today an envelope shows up from the Arizona State Board of Nursing. Curious, wasn't expecting anything, open envelope while looking at the FRONT. Uh, this paper has the official state seal on it. And is not a copy. Very curious indeed. Turn envelope over (see picture above). Oh no. Call Arizona State Board of Nursing, and yes (here's your sign) the three blatant stamps on the back of the envelope DID in fact mean  not to open it. Please mail it back to us so we can seal it up again (insert tone of slight exasperation)

Um, Lord, really? So now we will need to wait for this paper to make it to Arizona and back before I can work? This is not the plan.

How do I hope in the Lord in this, very small, situation? By NOT hoping in the plan, or a paper, or a job. Hope in the Lord! He is the solution to the question of how to pay for school, and a broken car, and food, and everything else. My trust has been in getting a job. Well, Stac, here's your sign that the Lord has His own plan, His own timing, His own means, and He is faithful!