Several months ago, I joined a local chapter of a nursing organization called the Nurses Christian Fellowship (NCF). NCF supports Christian nurses from young to old, offering mentoring, prayer, and fellowship for student nurses, as well as education and community for nurses at all places in their careers. In my enthusiasm to network and connect …
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 …
In February of 2019, I accompanied my grandfather to a doctor’s appointment at a hospital in Chicago. (It’s strange to think of it now, but it was only a year before the pandemic.) He had been experiencing increasing abdominal discomfort for the past several months, and though we had a sense of what we were …
I\’ve been wanting to explain how I approach certain topics related to health and wellness. I want to outline my priorities, because it will inform (I hope) the way I write as a whole and where I want to be as a person. A fellow named Aaron Baart recently wrote an article entitled \”When Cultural …
A Sweet Fast… A Sweets fast? (I\’m sure there\’s a better way to say that…?!?!) Read More »
My purpose for this site is to explore what it looks like to go into health ministry. More specifically, I am exploring what it looks like to be a minister in the church who guides people to steward the resource that is their bodies in order to increase their capacity to worship with their whole …
I\’ve always admired people who could think critically enough to critique a book intelligently. It\’s not something I\’ve made a practice of regularly, at least not out loud. I\’ve read terrible books and loved them, and I\’ve closed good books out of boredom. So I hesitated to do this in public, since I figured I\’m …
11:11 pm on a Thursday night, and I find myself here again. It\’s been a long time. I\’m tired. The kids haven\’t been sleeping very well, one is teething, the other is transitioning to a bed he can get out of easily, so our nights are interrupted. I don\’t think I\’ve had a full night\’s …