"We are the clay and You our potter" Isa 64:8

"That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings being conformed to His death." Philippians 3:10 How is it that our best times, are during our worst times? Through 2 years of medical school, I've seen times where I realized I am nothing and times where I felt like I had this thing figured out. And I can say I would rather be in those days where I was exhausted and didn't know how I could continue studying another day, where all I could see was my inadequacy, where God felt so close I heard Him whisper. It is in these moments that I have felt most alive. That I may know Him. This week I took my step 1 national medical board exam, thus, completing my 2nd year. The months leading up to it where some of the hardest I can remember. But God reminded me during this time that He is my treasure, and my goal is that I may know Him.   God brought me through boards, and now I look to a year of rotations where my inadequacy and m...

I must confess these last few months I have been extremely selfish. I have been extremely blessed in that God allowed me to grow up in a church that taught me from a young age that life is about God and His glory, and that there is so much more to life than getting caught up in the everyday routine, the dreams of retirement and so forth. I have had this hunger and thirst to know more of God and to be consumed by Him. And it is by His pursuit of me that He brought me to Virginia. One of my greatest struggles while here has been the lack of true Christian companionship. Yes, He did give me Christian friends and wonderful believing roommates, yet there has been a void. I knew God should be enough, yet my unsuccessful efforts to make myself be satisfied, were too weak to do anything. With so many of my friends and even my little sister getting married, I longed to have a ‘soul mate;’ someone to walk this journey with, someone who made me love God more, and someone who I could share lif...