journey

“If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting…and set out on a truth seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then truth will not be withheld from you."

       So, there came a time during my last year at UNCW when I realized I had burned myself out juggling too many classes and too many jobs. Then, I did the unthinkable and promised myself to take time off before graduate school. Me. Take time off. Right...Well, I’ve managed to stay true to that promise, and I think it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Not only have I been able to take my first deep breath in four years, my life has become quite the adventure. Between EMS, hospice, and traveling, sometimes I think I’m learning more now than I ever did sitting in some of my classes. I want to embrace what it is that God wants me to do in this life that is so fleeting. My strengths and passions have somehow translated into going into medicine. Where exactly this will take me, I’m not yet sure. For now, I’ve been learning as much as I can and using what I’ve learned to lend a helping hand.

       Lately I’ve realized just how many of my friends and family live outside of Wilmington. Thus, a blog seemed a wonderful solution to the difficulty of keeping in touch with everyone, especially as I venture to Australia and Haiti. So feel free to follow along! I’m not promising anything spectacular, but it’s a wonderful way for you all to know I’m safe and sound.