2026-10-03 1 Kings 12:6-8 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.
2026-10-02 1 Kings 11:2 Solomon clung to these in love “Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, ‘You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.
2026-10-01 1 Kings 10:24 And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his mind. James 1:5 If anyone of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God , who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him. Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Yes, here’s another particularly ambitious reading list for, of all people, a medical student. And of course an insufferable essay to accompany it. I think myself to be not so much in danger of reading a lot as I am of reading too little. Though, and justifiably so, the worry might be whether I really will pay due attention to my medical training, and academic reading, I am quite certain by now that if I read or do so little of medicine, it isn’t because I read to much C.
2026-09-30 1 Kings 9:4-7 And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules, then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.
2026-09-29 1 Kings 8:57-58 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us nor forsake us, that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers. I affirm predestination, and actually rejoice to consider such great an act of love as prevenient grace.
Kristin M. Collier Picture a woman who has just given birth prematurely. Her baby boy was born by cesarean section, and now she has a surgical incision that needs to heal. Her son, who is in the neonatal intensive care unit, has trouble breathing and regulating his body temperature. Both mother and son are in the process of healing. In order to become well, they need many things that modern medicine can offer.
Finished reading: Religio Medici by Browne, Thomas 📚
Thomas Browne, Urne-Buriall: Happy are they whom privacy makes innocent, who deal so with men in this world, that they are not afraid to meet them in the next, who when they dye, make no commotion among the dead
Finished reading: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor 📚
No wonder Flannery O’Connor was so misunderstood, and her work interpreted in ways other than she intended!