much is written about how to live & worship God through earthly suffering, as it is obviously a difficult road to walk. And many lies have been told about how to obey God in order to achieve earthly comfort, security, and abundance (none of which the Bible values very highly.) But when your life is filled up with blessings, how should we then live?
[cross-posted on facebook]
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
calm before the storm
it's been a ridiculous amount of time since my last blog. not the longest hiatus nor the most prominent, but it's been a while. and I can't make any promises that it's going to start up again with any reliability, but I'd figured I'd shoot something out there what with my old friend Dr. Tim rejoining the blogosphere and whatnot.
Tomorrow I start my third year of medical school at Mercy Medical Center. I'm on my Internal Medicine rotation, which is going to be intense but very rewarding. I have call every 4th or 5th day (!), which means working from 6:30am-11pm twice a week or so... but I came to medical school to work with patients and this is all I have been waiting for (school-wise, anyway) for the last two years, so I am still quite excited.
what have I been up to lately, you ask? Well, in the last several months I:
-got engaged! Went up to Maine last weekend and on June 27th, 2009 I asked the lovely Maggie Burns to be my wife. She said yes before I could even get the ring out of my pocket. :) We're thinking December for a wedding date, but haven't set anything in stone yet.
-took Step 1 of the USMLE (aka "the boards.") After a brutal month of studying all day every day, I answered 336 questions in 7 hours. I don't know how I did, but I probably passed and that is all that matters, quite frankly.
-have been listening to A LOT of Andrew Osenga. Holy cow man, this is good stuff and he gives away two awesome EPs away for free on his site! check it out.
-went to Maine twice. New England is gorgeous-- I wish I could conveniently discover an unreached people there.
-have been following the controversy and craziness about Derek Webb's latest album, downloading each stem of his latest controversial new song. I have weighed in here. More appropriate to the topic at hand is the fact that everyone thought that Derek couldn't do electronic music well, and what we've heard so far kicks ass. You can listen to everything released so far here.
-have not recorded or written too too much music except for the song that I proposed to Miss Burns with. But I'm working on it...
another post coming soon with other great sermons that I have greatly enjoyed lately!
Tomorrow I start my third year of medical school at Mercy Medical Center. I'm on my Internal Medicine rotation, which is going to be intense but very rewarding. I have call every 4th or 5th day (!), which means working from 6:30am-11pm twice a week or so... but I came to medical school to work with patients and this is all I have been waiting for (school-wise, anyway) for the last two years, so I am still quite excited.
what have I been up to lately, you ask? Well, in the last several months I:
-got engaged! Went up to Maine last weekend and on June 27th, 2009 I asked the lovely Maggie Burns to be my wife. She said yes before I could even get the ring out of my pocket. :) We're thinking December for a wedding date, but haven't set anything in stone yet.
-took Step 1 of the USMLE (aka "the boards.") After a brutal month of studying all day every day, I answered 336 questions in 7 hours. I don't know how I did, but I probably passed and that is all that matters, quite frankly.
-have been listening to A LOT of Andrew Osenga. Holy cow man, this is good stuff and he gives away two awesome EPs away for free on his site! check it out.
-went to Maine twice. New England is gorgeous-- I wish I could conveniently discover an unreached people there.
-have been following the controversy and craziness about Derek Webb's latest album, downloading each stem of his latest controversial new song. I have weighed in here. More appropriate to the topic at hand is the fact that everyone thought that Derek couldn't do electronic music well, and what we've heard so far kicks ass. You can listen to everything released so far here.
-have not recorded or written too too much music except for the song that I proposed to Miss Burns with. But I'm working on it...
another post coming soon with other great sermons that I have greatly enjoyed lately!
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