Just ASK KD: 2016

I believe that everything has a purpose. Yes, this includes all of the bad stuff as well. While in the moment we look at situations and wonder: "Why me?" "What did I do to deserve this?" While there is no standard answer to these questions, everyone asks themselves these or similar questions at some point. When situations that we personally believe should have gone a different direction take a turn for what we deem as the worst, we are given a chance to look inside ourselves and at our decisions to that point.
Now to get to the point of all of this, for the last year and a half I have been pursuing a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California (it's in LA County). About 5 months ago, I hit a speed bump. I received a 75% on a written final exam. APU's DPT program has a strict policy that if you receive below an 80% on a final exam you automatically fail that course, no matter what grade you currently have in the course. So the speed bump was that having now failed a course I could choose to retake the course and if I pass with greater than an 80% I could continue, but if I ever "failed" another final exam I would be immediately dismissed from the program. So after talking it over with KD, I decided to retake the exam/course and continue pushing forward with a renewed determination in my study habits. I was successful and until now only a select few were even privy to the information that I had hit this speed bump. Now we are two terms later and I have received that dreaded second phone call (actually it was an email the second time around). I have been dismissed from PT school and need to decide what to do with my life. I was given the opportunity to appeal the decision and for a little over a week KD and I discussed the possibilities, while seeking the Lord's guidance. The end result of that week has been my withdrawal from the program and our reliance on the Lord to lead us as we make this next step in our lives.

Currently we are house sitting for the summer, so we will be in California until mid August. This has given us the time we need to truly seek the Lord's guidance on our next step as well as removing the burden of paying rent and utilities for a couple of months. When we are done house sitting we will be moving. But at this point we don't know where to.
We have had an amazing experience here in SoCal thanks to all of our friends from church and school! We will thoroughly miss each and every one of you who have been a part of our lives while we have lived here.
(There are a lot of pictures, just a heads up!)