Office by Alex Penny
5/12/12
My name is Andrea. I am a 28 year old geropsychiatry physician assistant who is absolutely in love with practicing medicine. More importantly, I am a Bible believing Christian. I have decided to share my spiritual journey here with anyone who would like to join me. These are my field recordings...
Howdy Pilgrims,
Today, while studying the vast display of humidifiers at Meijer, I stumbled upon a 2011 wall calendar called “Paths to God”. I bought it on a whim, and was relieved to find when I got home that the calendar was in fact about THE path to God, and not ALL paths to God, as I had begun to worry while driving home. Like a good Baptist girl, I was surprisingly pleased to find that the calendar was not entirely filled with warm-fuzzies. The year begins with a photo of an endless row of frost-covered trees, and displays the verse 1 Peter 2:21 “To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.” I realize that that verse comes from a passage about submitting to masters, but when you pull that verse out and place it in a frozen landscape, it calls you to follow down the path of suffering that Christ walked first. This does not mean to be lead to certain doom, but to step in the footsteps that Christ left us in the snow as an example of how to cross, endure, and spiritually survive the terrain that causes us to suffer. It is surprisingly comforting to start the year by thinking of the example that I have been given to follow. I wonder how many other people out there will spend their January staring at the same scene ;)
~Andrea
Edition: 1 hour status-post hovering over my new humidifier for an hour and a half I am able to breathe deeply without coughing or wheezing. Mission Accomplished.
