I’ve been meaning to be more regimented and organized about what I write about and why and when I publish, but it seems life is chaos and discipline is hard when the day to day schedule requires an intense amount of intentionality in order for me to set aside time. I had also meant to …
Related to my previous post on my experience with a grief workshop at my church, the rest of this blog post will basically be the transcript of my story. I’ve deleted some parts of it, as they were mostly the teaching content that our church has and I didn’t want to just copy/paste. Some of …
My husband surprised me one night when he told me that our bereavement ministry pastor was looking for someone to help teach one of the weeks at our church’s grief workshop. It took me a little off guard for a few reasons. The first is that even though we had technically been at this church …
When I first started working in the hospital setting, I had a weird existential dilemma somewhere in the first year. The first several months, I was just trying to survive, but once I finally got to a place where I could see what my hands were doing and think clearly, I had one particularly clear …
Early on in our relationship, my now-husband-then-boyfriend and I were low-key excited to realize we shared an interest in Dave Ramsey. If you don’t know who that is, Dave Ramsey is a finance guru who has built a reputation by helping people get out of debt and live a life of financial freedom. He’s definitely …
Over the past several months, I\’ve been assessing, reassessing, brainstorming, and struggling with next steps. I feel as though there is an unfinished and unpaved path set before me that I can only see by way of flashlight, a few steps at a time. And there have been several potholes and pitfalls along the way. …
During Nursing school, we had one semester and clinical rotation in mental health (more familiarly known as \”Psych.\”). I was assigned an in-patient mental health facility in downtown Chicago, where we spent a couple days a week talking to patients and nurses, and figuring out the floor. This was honestly the rotation where I was …
This past year, I\’ve made it a goal to read more. Super non-specific on the number, type, and length of books because honestly, I\’m just taking it one day at a time here, and if it\’s not going to catch my attention, I\’m not going to muscle through it for the sake of finishing. There …
I am currently reading through this treatise of a book entitled Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing. I\’m actually not a huge fan of it so far (probably just because of the sheer length of it), but it does have some beautiful moments. One particular sentence, though, struck me particularly hard: We will …
This season in which you find yourself may puzzle you, but it does not bewilder God. He can and will use it for his purpose. Max Lucado, You\’ll Get Through This In looking for content to challenge my knowledge and understanding, I had been reading through two books, the first on a Christian worldview of …