You are welcome anytime.
This is the self-guided tour. The laundry room is my favorite place and the roses in the kitchen window are from the front yard!
This is where you'll stay when you visit!
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Home Sweet Home
We are so blessed to be living under this roof. It is only by our Lord's provision that we are here and we love it. So - for those of you in far away states and far away lands - here is our humble abode.
You are welcome anytime.
This is the self-guided tour. The laundry room is my favorite place and the roses in the kitchen window are from the front yard!
This is where you'll stay when you visit!
You are welcome anytime.
This is the self-guided tour. The laundry room is my favorite place and the roses in the kitchen window are from the front yard!
This is where you'll stay when you visit!
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Buechner was right again....
Approximately 2 months ago I walked into a 3 story grey office building with paint under my fingernails, bags under my eyes and a confused excitement in my heart. I sat in the beige office of man I had never met, wearing the few pieces of professional clothing that I could find and talked with him about my journey to and away from PA school, why I was in his office and what it was he wanted from me.
About 3/4 of the way through our time, he asked whether I valued relationships and if I felt that I was a relational person in my core - because the work that went on in this grey office building and within this beige room - was highly relational.
And that's when it happend - I didn't want it to or surely didn't expect it - but I had to pause for a moment because a lump was stuck in my throat. I began to explain my passions, my love of and frustrations with medicine - and even my relationship with Christ. And tears welled up in my eyes without fully understanding why.
I lay in bed the other night, reading from Listening to your Life - and was reminded that it was in that moment - when my eyes welled up with tears, even before interview #2 or #3 - that I knew it was the work God had specifically designed for me.
'You never know what might cause them...a piece of music, a horse cantering across a meadow, the sight of a high school basketball team running across the gym before the start of a game...But of this you can be sure. Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not God is speaking to you through them, of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.'
- F. Buechner
About 3/4 of the way through our time, he asked whether I valued relationships and if I felt that I was a relational person in my core - because the work that went on in this grey office building and within this beige room - was highly relational.
And that's when it happend - I didn't want it to or surely didn't expect it - but I had to pause for a moment because a lump was stuck in my throat. I began to explain my passions, my love of and frustrations with medicine - and even my relationship with Christ. And tears welled up in my eyes without fully understanding why.
I lay in bed the other night, reading from Listening to your Life - and was reminded that it was in that moment - when my eyes welled up with tears, even before interview #2 or #3 - that I knew it was the work God had specifically designed for me.
'You never know what might cause them...a piece of music, a horse cantering across a meadow, the sight of a high school basketball team running across the gym before the start of a game...But of this you can be sure. Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not God is speaking to you through them, of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.'
- F. Buechner
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