October 2009
4 posts
Everything Happens For A Reason. Pt. 2/3
Several months ago a seven year old baby girl died of a brain aneurysm on a Sunday evening while here mother and father were attending a church service. The child had been left home with a babysitter and they were summoned out of the service by paramedics who responded to the call.
Tragic as this sudden death was and her grief over the loss of their only child, what happened next was more deeply...
Everything Happens For A Reason. Pt. 1/3
The catch phrase of funerals, car wrecks, break ups, and hurricanes; everything happens for a reason. What are you saying?
Are you making a scientific statement that every effect has related cause? Brilliant.
More often than not, these five words offer comfort by giving credit to the unknown.
The traditional concept of God’s sovereignty viewed God as controlling (causing) every detail and event...
The Great Idea
Some of you tune into these posts weekly and to that I forewarn you with this: I am a tormented soul. If I wow your minds with brilliance I have stumbled upon then I will surely break your heart with my suffering. I have learned that if one wishes to write well, he must be before he can say. It is a strange alchemy, that pain produces harmony. Every time I read or write I ask myself; does anyone...
Good Intentions
When I was in the first grade, I was by far the brightest kid in my class. School came easy for me and I knew it. In my elementary years, somehow my young mind pieced together that smart people become doctors, and doctors make a lot of money being smart and helping people. I stayed true to this career path until my junior year of high school. That year my anatomy class visited the KU Med Center in...