Unanswered Prayers

Scrapfaith Challenge


Journaling
When I told Rob that I wanted to srapbook his interviewing experience, he said--No Way. This has been a very hard process, he doesn't want to remember it. But he knows that this experience is making him grow and become a better person.

It's hard to go through all of this again. He's gone through times of doubt and stress to times of hope and peace back to stress again. It's hard.

He wants to become an orthodontist--that's his dream. I'm amazed at the courage he has to try a 2nd time--at all costs. Because of his courage, we can already feel the Lord blessing us. He has given Rob a comforting peace that he'll go somewhere. But where? 11 interview requests instead of the 3 that he got last year. God has given me the strength to take care of our boys while Rob is gone. He has somehow stretched our budget. But we wouldn't have any of these blessings if Rob didn't have courage.
Oct 2006

Background info:
I started writing more detailed background info, but I decided to keep it short. This is about Rob's unanswered prayer, not mine. I don't know how much of this he wants to be made known, so I won't go into the details I had started to write.

The first time Rob applied for an Orthodontic residency, he didn't get accepted. He was definitely qualified. We had said our prayers...for years. But he didn't get in. It was difficult for him to find that his prayers weren't answered the way he expected. But it didn't shake him, or his faith. This layout shows the courage he had...and his faith...to try again. And to keep praying. And that's what we did. The journaling for this layout was written a month before we knew that he was accepted...during the heart of the trial.

The layout includes hidden journaling and an encouraging letter that his mom wrote to him while he was going through this trying time (I love how scrapbooking can give us a great way to keep special things like that). She praises him for his faith and acknowledges the difficulty of the situation. I also included some facts on some tags, like the grueling interview schedule (8 interviews across the country in less than 6 weeks), the names of the schools that wanted to interview him, and the cost.

Even though Rob didn't want me to scrapbook this, I'm glad that I did. Now that he's in his program, it can be easy to forget the hard time when the prayer went unanswered. I'm also glad for the faith he had to keep trusting in God. I love Rob.