A question I get all the time. “Why do you do what you do?” Often followed by “I could never do that.”
It’s a fair question. When asked to explain what RescueNet is, I often say “We’re the people who run into the places everyone else is running out of.” Emergency disaster response is not your typical 9-5 office job. It requires unique people able to balance a high tolerance for risk with the wisdom to avoid it whenever possible. People who thrive under the rush of saving people in very dangerous situations without doing it just for that thrill.
When people ask me how I can do it, I honestly just can’t imagine doing anything else, and I have tried. RescueNet is a demanding ministry. It requires the discipline to stay focused and practiced during months of non-deployments, then the flexibility to just up and leave everything in less than 24 hours of receiving an alert. It can take a toll on my family and I have tried to think of better ways to express my desire to help those in the most desperate days of their lives. I can’t.
So why do I do what I do? Because I have to. It’s who I am.
A question I get all the time. “Why do you do what you do?” Often followed by “I could never do that.”
It’s a fair question. When asked to explain what RescueNet is, I often say “We’re the people who run into the places everyone else is running out of.” Emergency disaster response is not your typical 9-5 office job. It requires unique people able to balance a high tolerance for risk with the wisdom to avoid it whenever possible. People who thrive under the rush of saving people in very dangerous situations without doing it just for that thrill.
When people ask me how I can do it, I honestly just can’t imagine doing anything else, and I have tried. RescueNet is a demanding ministry. It requires the discipline to stay focused and practiced during months of non-deployments, then the flexibility to just up and leave everything in less than 24 hours of receiving an alert. It can take a toll on my family and I have tried to think of better ways to express my desire to help those in the most desperate days of their lives. I can’t.
So why do I do what I do? Because I have to. It’s who I am.
A question I get all the time. “Why do you do what you do?” Often followed by “I could never do that.”
It’s a fair question. When asked to explain what RescueNet is, I often say “We’re the people who run into the places everyone else is running out of.” Emergency disaster response is not your typical 9-5 office job. It requires unique people able to balance a high tolerance for risk with the wisdom to avoid it whenever possible. People who thrive under the rush of saving people in very dangerous situations without doing it just for that thrill.
When people ask me how I can do it, I honestly just can’t imagine doing anything else, and I have tried. RescueNet is a demanding ministry. It requires the discipline to stay focused and practiced during months of non-deployments, then the flexibility to just up and leave everything in less than 24 hours of receiving an alert. It can take a toll on my family and I have tried to think of better ways to express my desire to help those in the most desperate days of their lives. I can’t.
So why do I do what I do? Because I have to. It’s who I am.
My whole life I have viewed swimming pools as a significant luxury. Until I had kids in the desert! Now a pool is a basic survival tool for summer sanity. The boys are getting pretty darn good and swimming around, if I do say so myself. Check ‘em out!
Wow, just when it looked like we didn’t have a chance of making it to the east coast this year to visit our family and friends there, along comes a big ol’ answer to prayer. The morning I threw up a last-ditch prayer for a way to make it back east I get an email from Southwest announcing a three-day only sale. Combined with two frequent flyer tickets we somehow accrued, we are now homeward bound! (sing it with me…)
Thank you Southwest Airlines, and thank you everyone who knows how important our PA trip is and who was praying for us. Those two weeks back in my (Dave’s) homeland are incredibly refreshing and give us a lot of life. It helps us get through another year of desert living and the sad Las Vegas condition of friends coming in and out of our lives to know there is such a full, supportive community always welcoming us back. The only thing better than that is knowing we also have a similar community on the west coast! Thanks for the love, everyone!
Okay, maybe that’s not big news to you as most kids tend to age one year every 365 days, but to as parents, it is still a shock to think our little guys are rapidly becoming not-so-little guys.
From the frail NICU days to the indestructible, chatterbox experts on locomotives they have already become, it seems such a blur, like each year we had different boys living in our house. But nope, they’re the same boys, they’re ours and we love them!
Today I was granted a scholarship to the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit by an anonymous benefactor. (If you are reading this – Thank You!)
I had really been hoping to attend the summit this year. I had attended one a few years back and took a lot home that affected my ministry leadership ever since. This year I have more direct leadership and responsibility of more people than ever; I can use all the help I can get.
It looks like an outstanding year with speakers ranging from Howard Schultz of Starbucks to Erwin McManus of Mosaic Church in LA.
If you are in leadership of any capacity, this summit will probably benefit you, and those for whom you are responsible, tremendously.
Check out the details: http://www.willowcreek.com/events/leadership/
So… I am still waiting to hear back from AMR regarding my next opportunity to test with them. They have been very busy and have plenty of people with my qualifications, so they have no real need of me. If I had more or less training, I could probably get hired much more quickly. Unfortunately I am both over and underqualified as a potential hire right now.
Life goes on, but I would really like to be out on the streets helping people and getting much-needed medical experience. It’s in the Lord’s hands, so I will keep on praying. Please join me.
This spring we had the privilege of walking in the March of Dimes’ “March for Babies” and raise money for a great cause – preventing birth defects and giving babies the best start in life possible.
there, along comes a big ol’ answer to prayer. The morning I threw up a last-ditch prayer for a way to make it back east I get an email from Southwest announcing a three-day only sale. Combined with two frequent flyer tickets we somehow accrued, we are now homeward bound! (sing it with me…)
