Headaches.... I've been plagued by them lately. I have one now and I'm about to close the computer up and lie down. But I wanted to post something here before I do.

Today I realized I possess something most of my peers will not ever have. Knowledge. Intimate, hands on, fluent understanding of the world inside a laboratory. When I look back at my life, I can only shake my head at the idea that God KNEW what I was going to be doing on this very day of my life. When I was a sophomore in college, I was accepted in nursing school--my whole educational goal up to that point had been nursing school. And because of a "fluke", my life's goal was changed in one summer's day. So I got a degree in Microbiology.

Then, because I didn't know what else to do, I went to graduate school to get my PhD in Microbiology. Five years later, feeling like an complete failure, I left with a Masters degree and took a temporary bench job in a clinical lab. Five years later, my application to Nurse Practitioner school wasn't accepted. (I'm persistant, you have to give me that. ) Two years later, I became the database administrator for the clinical lab.

A year and a half ago I became a consultant who configures laboratory databases for clinical labs. Two weeks ago I was certain my career was in jepardy and my life would end in the poor house since I didn't have a computer programming background. It's not my strong point. I also was certain that my strengths wouldn't be valuable in a few years time.

So back when I was a sophomore in college, God knew that TODAY I would be able to see His hand in my life. Because I can go into a meeting with a group of lab people, listen to them describe how their lab works and translate it into a laboratory configuration for them. The first time I hear it.

God is funny, sometimes.