These last few months have squeezed our family like a grape. We have six kids aged eight and under—including infant twins, Ford and Eleanor, who joined our family in summer 2022. We are also about to move the whole Morris clan to Papua New Guinea in 2023 to serve as healthcare missionaries. I am sure you can imagine that our lives are as calm as a clam.
As MATCH day approaches, here is a prayer written by Renee Nicholas, National Director of Graduate Healthcare Ministries.
Many years ago, during my first-year medical school orientation at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, New York, our dean quoted Dr. Francis Peabody, famed physician of the early 20th century, who stated in front of a group of Harvard medical students in 1927:…
For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. – Ephesians 6:12
A ripple effect occurs when an initial disturbance to a system propagates outward to disturb an increasingly larger portion of the system. We are all familiar with an example of this from throwing a rock into a body of water. Every time we hear fireworks, we experience the ripple of sound waves.
It is a cold Ohio winter morning. I turn on the fireplace, pour myself a hot cup of coffee, and read my devotional. Specific words from Matthew 9:36 jump off the page, "and seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them" (NASB 1977). How long until I will be in person with multitudes, even a small group of people, I wonder, as I ready myself for another day of online medical school.
About 46 million turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving in America each year! Nearly 51 million people travel for Thanksgiving to be with friends and family! Clearly, Americans love a good turkey dinner and getting together to enjoy it!
People love their cars, and they love their cars showroom clean - so much so that Americans spend approximately $5.8 Billion each year at over 100,000 car wash facilities! About 8 million cars per day go through a car wash in America!
“But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you’” (Mark 16:7, NIV).
As a kid, I especially loved vacations, and Disney World was the Vacation Mecca! I did not care where we were going on vacation, just as long as we were going.
