Wow. What a year. 2023 has been a ride! For those who don’t know and for myself in years to come, when I’m reading this and have forgotten, I’m in Falls Church, Virginia (about fifteen minutes west of D.C.), serving for two years on active duty orders with the Navy. I’m one year down and […]
Christianity Gets Weird
This past week was hard. Tuesday, after a decent day of teleworking and taking an Appreciative Inquiry course, I ended up in quiet, unseen tears during an afternoon meeting, as mere voices triggered angst. After a frustrating Wednesday, I was blessed by the gratitude of a patient on Thursday who’d just undergone a double mastectomy; […]
Secure and Glorious
“Ohhh, my devotions this morning . . . ” – the words I texted to a best friend this morning. I’ve been loving each day’s words in “New Morning Mercies” by Paul David Tripp, but today’s spoke so clearly to my heart that I decided to write a post about it – for those of […]
Quantico, Round Two: Just the Same, But Totally Different
It’s taken a few weeks to process my second round in Quantico, Virginia – a place that really began to feel a lot like home – because life hasn’t seemed to pause since returning to my actual home. The long and short of it: compared to the first round, round two was just the same, […]
Quantico, Round One: The Most Challenging and The Biggest Blast of My Life
Being thrown in as the Officer in Charge (OIC) of a highly medical unit, for my first-ever Annual Training (AT) exercise, after just a year and half since graduating from Officer Development School (ODS), amidst a bunch of United States Marine Corps (USMC) Officers was, indeed, an intimidating feat. I keep saying this about every […]