I'm currently taking a few pre-requisite courses in order to apply to a graduate physical therapy program at the UW next fall. Since I'm a special student, I don't have priority registration and the two sections of the course I need to take are full. My personality tends to list to the worrying side and most of the day Friday I was unable to accomplish as much because I was so busy fretting about this class.

It happens to be Fast Sunday weekend. I made this the object of my fast. Almost immediately I stopped worrying about it. What a relief and a blessing!

Then, in Sunday School class, one of the scriptures we had to look up was 1 Nephi 17:13 "And I will also be your light in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore ye shall be led towards the promised land; and ye shall know that it is by me that ye are led." And when I read that, I just felt like the Lord was telling me it would all work out okay. He'd help me out and I'd know that he was helping me out.

When I went to look that scripture up this morning for a little reassurance, I accidently opened my Book of Mormon to 1 Nephi 18 where I had previously scribbled in the margin, commenting on Nephi's brothers liking the looks of the ship they had built. The verse is 18:4, "And it came to pass that after I had finished the ship, according to the word of the Lord, my brethren beheld that it was good, and that the workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine; wherefore, they did humble themselves again before the Lord. This is what I had written: "humble because of good work accomplished that they didn't think was possible at the outset."

This was so timely for me because I have just been wondering if I can possibly complete this ambitious and rigorous program (assuming I even get in) and it was just one more reminder--God telling me in his own words that He is who He is, and He will help and it will be all right.