It makes sense now
Yesterday I had a breakthru - something that should have been obvious these past two years. . .and yet I just realized it. At school they were having a residency fair - the hall was jam-packed with people. There were residency programs from all over the state lining the hall & tons of my classmates were walking around sizing everyone up. I was once again reminded that my days of competing did not end the day I got my acceptance letter to my #2 choice school (yes, this does play into my blog) - I am going to have to compete once again to obtain a residency - however that is not the point.
A few of my fellow classmates & I snagged a table to consume some of the free food - and we began to talk about what we each felt like the "call" of our lives were. Ms. Ellen wants to be a peditrican who spends the majority of her time on the mission field, Mr. Steve wants to do two things - he wants to provide medical care to people who would otherwise not get it, but he also wants to be proactive about getting other non-medical people involved in the missions process. Ms. Lina wants to be involved as much as she can, but she doesn't really feel the call to serve full-time, and I really want to use my MBA degree in Health Operations Management to organize a medical mission group that has some doctors that are full-time missionary doctors, but also brings in groups of other health care professionals (like on their vacations) and other people to not only help run the clinic, but so that they can also get the opportunity to minister to people & to help out.
We each randomly threw out our ideas of what we feel in our hearts is the call of our future professional lives - and then it clicked - the reason why we are all here - the reason why we snagged a table together & have been talking randomly over the past years - this wasn't random at all - this was God putting us in a town and at a school so that we could learn the knowledge and gain the relationships to do something so much bigger than be mere doctors - we are going to change the world!
"For I know the plans I have made for you . . .they are plans for good. . .to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11
A few of my fellow classmates & I snagged a table to consume some of the free food - and we began to talk about what we each felt like the "call" of our lives were. Ms. Ellen wants to be a peditrican who spends the majority of her time on the mission field, Mr. Steve wants to do two things - he wants to provide medical care to people who would otherwise not get it, but he also wants to be proactive about getting other non-medical people involved in the missions process. Ms. Lina wants to be involved as much as she can, but she doesn't really feel the call to serve full-time, and I really want to use my MBA degree in Health Operations Management to organize a medical mission group that has some doctors that are full-time missionary doctors, but also brings in groups of other health care professionals (like on their vacations) and other people to not only help run the clinic, but so that they can also get the opportunity to minister to people & to help out.
We each randomly threw out our ideas of what we feel in our hearts is the call of our future professional lives - and then it clicked - the reason why we are all here - the reason why we snagged a table together & have been talking randomly over the past years - this wasn't random at all - this was God putting us in a town and at a school so that we could learn the knowledge and gain the relationships to do something so much bigger than be mere doctors - we are going to change the world!
"For I know the plans I have made for you . . .they are plans for good. . .to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11
posted by dr.larissa @ 2:36 PM
2 Comments:
At 4/13/2006 8:26 PM ,
Anonymous said...
yes, yes, you are right.
At 4/18/2006 11:34 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Adkins, are you having writer's block? =)
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