“God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.” The first time I heard this statement, my subconscious gave a ‘bombastic side-eye.’ I can't say why I had such a negative visceral reaction to it; I just know that it rubbed me wrongly. I’ve had reason to think about it more deeply (I even did... Continue Reading →
What Do You Want To Listen To?
During my time in medical school (it feels so great to say this by the way), I had music as my constant reading companion. Some people wonder how possible it is to read with music in your ears, but I find that it helps me reduce the many distractions in my mind to just one... Continue Reading →
Outrunning God.
Few months ago, during the Christmas season, we went for a community outreach in a particular village. Two buses conveyed us down to the place. However, since only the driver and the coordinator in our bus knew where exactly we were to stop in the village, our bus drove ahead while the other followed. As... Continue Reading →
A Most Improbable Prison Break Story
In the first century AD, two men were incarcerated for constituting a nuisance to public peace. Assuming you had somehow been sharing confinement with these two men, that night would probably have been most uncomfortable. Imagine battling heat, fetid body odors, and vermin trying to get some shut-eye. Then two men start singing at the... Continue Reading →
Being Human…
A toddler was playing around me a while ago and I could tell that she was an excited child. In the process of her moving about, her parent's eyes never left her for anything.
