Tag: Thought to Ponder

What I was trying to say was…

My Uncle John put up a very interesting response to the last important post that I put up (no not the one about the snow). I realized that I had probably not completely made myself clear when I read his first line, “Your anger concerns me.” Oops. I did not mean to sound angry by any means, a little upset about a flaw I perceive about the medical system, but not angry. Instead of simply copying, pasting and responding to what Uncle John said, I decided to simply write a follow up in response to the issues he brought up. So here goes.

First, I would like to say that I do not want to reduce the amount of choices in medicine. On the contrary, I want to increase choices for everyone involved. Continue reading “What I was trying to say was…”

What I was trying to say was…

My Uncle John put up a very interesting response to the last important post that I put up (no not the one about the snow). I realized that I had probably not completely made myself clear when I read his first line, “Your anger concerns me.” Oops. I did not mean to sound angry by any means, a little upset about a flaw I perceive about the medical system, but not angry. Instead of simply copying, pasting and responding to what Uncle John said, I decided to simply write a follow up in response to the issues he brought up. So here goes.

First, I would like to say that I do not want to reduce the amount of choices in medicine. On the contrary, I want to increase choices for everyone involved. Continue reading “What I was trying to say was…”

Thanks be

Pulling my head out of the water long enough to give praise where praise is due:

Greek has been consistently kicking my butt. You know that [verse in Collossians](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%202:15;&version=31;) where Jesus is depicted as a Roman general returning from battle, bringing back disarmed powers and principalities as a “public specticle”? Well, replace the principalities with me and Jesus with Greek, and you’ll get a pretty accurate gist of how I’ve been feeling about that class lately. I *love* languages, and Greek is pretty fascinating to me, but rote memorization has never been my strong point by any stretch of the imagination. (Remind me sometime to tell you about my experience in fourth grade with the multiplication tables…) I suck at it. I’ve got to have some interrelated network of ideas to hang things on, or they just slip right out of my mind. And with this class, the pace is just so fast that learning feels more like cramming – constantly. It just doesn’t let up for a minute.

I was getting to the point where I absolutely hated it. I was getting to the point where I was, you know, destitute; broken; desperate.

I was getting to the point where it actually occurred to me to pray. Continue reading “Thanks be”

My Heart Hurts

I’m really, really, really tired of being in school. No, mom, I’m not having a mental breakdown, I’m just worn out. Have you ever read something that made you feel sick to your stomach? Make your heart ache? Well I have and rather recently too. I knew I was going to have some difficulty when my health law class got to “reproductive rights,” I just didn’t realize that it would make me feel physically ill.
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This is a sad day indeed.


> JUDICIAL WATCH STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF TERRI SCHIAVO

> (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement today concerning the death of Terri Schiavo:

> “This is a shameful day for our legal and political systems. Under court order, an innocent woman, Ms. Terri Schiavo, was killed by starvation and dehydration. Politicians at the state and federal level were derelict in their absolute duties to protect innocent human life. Our culture has crossed an awful Rubicon – for we now have legal precedent for the murder of innocent, disabled and voiceless adults. We hope the American people are now alerted to the crisis posed to this nation by an activist judiciary that would sanction such barbarity. Our prayers and condolences go out to Ms. Schiavo’s family.”

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Analyzing Morals

I have a class that I’m taking this semester that used to have me extremely worried and now only has me a little worried. The last CORE class we take here at Queens is an ethics class. Now Queens is a private school that is affiliated with the more liberal end of the Presbyterian Church almost to the point that you don’t see the Christianity at all unless you go down to the dusty tomes of the archives (which I was privileged to work in for two years). My worry was ‘what kind of ethics am I going to be taught in this type of atmosphere?’ I had heard horror stories from former students (including KB) about the class simply smashing liberal platform ideals into the student’s head without a glance at the conservative side. Not only is this unbalanced but it’s also pompous, arrogant and stupid. How can you expect to induce ethical thinking when you’re telling the student’s what to think anyway?
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A New Year

Christmas is over and 2004 is gone. KB has gone home and I have another week of vacation before heading back to Charlotte myself. It feels odd to be almost finished with school again. I have an extremely light semster with my hardest class being microbiology (one of the hardest classes in the science department according to many students), but honestly, 12 hours is still only 12 hours.

Most people make New Year’s resolutions at the beginning of a New Year. I honestly don’t ever remember writing down a resolution before and I don’t really want to start now because I know that whatever I resolve to do, I can’t do on my own. So many people start out with good intentions each year but without God it’s useless because we are so incredibly weak on our own. Continue reading “A New Year”