We were moving my sister into her dorm room for her first year of college after moving me into my first ever apartment, when my parents got the call that my Papa was in the hospital after a fall. It was the first of many calls over the next few months as his health steadily …
By coincidence (read: providence) I landed on Ephesians 4 and Psalm 4 this morning, as part of a plan to go through one chapter of Ephesians and one Psalm a day. As often happens when I read Pauline epistles, I got overwhelmed by the sheer density of the passage of Ephesians and found myself reading …
Another day. Another freak out about everything I “think” I have to get done. Cue the tears, the panic, and the guilt for not managing my time well and not spending enough time with Jesus on top of it all. Work. Wedding planning. Connecting with friends. Finding an apartment. Making food. Doing my laundry. All …
A few weekends ago, Brandon asked if we could go fishing. I rolled my eyes and reluctantly agreed knowing it would be long and slow and well boring for me. But fishing brings Brandon joy and being with Brandon brings me joy, so saying “no” didn’t really make sense. My consolation was that we would …
I take the MCAT on Saturday. Seven hours and thirty minutes of an exam, the culmination not only of nearly five months of studying six days a week but also three years of undergraduate science classes. All to produce a three-digit score that could bend the trajectory of where I could go to medical school, …
