If you’ve been following my recent blog posts, you know I’ve been wrestling with a difficult question: Is it time to leave full-time EMS after 25 years? A year ago, I would have laughed at that question. Five years ago, I would have laughed even harder. I was the person who could handle the difficult…
Almost twenty years ago, I sat in an emergency room after being verbally abused, physically beaten, and forever changed by a near-fatal strangulation. The “nice guy” everyone knew was a dangerous drunk behind closed doors. My discharge papers said: “Discontinue this relationship.”“Return if symptoms persist.” Sometimes I wonder what those discharge instructions would say if…
Refocusing, Faith, and a New Chapter of My Rewired Journey Over the past few months, I’ve been spending a lot of intentional time with God—quieting the noise, getting still, and asking Him what He wants me to focus on in this next season of my life. What has become abundantly clear is that He’s calling…