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MCAT (May 8th) Please pray for me!
lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: Rene on September 03, 2014, 03:21:25 PM ---Hi Alex,
I live in Virginia but Liberty University is over 3 hours from where I reside, so I will not be able to pick you up from the airport. Sorry. :(
Irony of Ironies, Liberty University was founded by Jerry Falwell who was a "big time" televangelist over the last 30 years and a contemporary of John Hagee and Dr. James Kennedy. It is a University that proudly promotes it's "Christian" college education. Not that this should have anything to do with your decision to go there.
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Right, You all know I'm going to school to become a physician and learn the skills necessary to practice medicine and bring care to those less fortunate if God so wills.
Both of you, John and Rene, know, that I am grounded in the faith that God has given to me as a gift and I will not relent on my understanding nor turn my back on that gift. Christ first and foremost before all.
God knows full well what He is doing and if I must, as a lamb, enter the den of wolves, then I know the Lord will keep me safe and guard my heart through my education if it is His will that I attend there. Did not Jospeh's brothers sell him into slavery yet God meant it unto good to save many? I'm not claiming to be joseph or anyone at all important but I have no power over where God sends me or what schools give me an interview. I wish I did, believe me!
I am still waiting on roughly 20 other schools but they are, as I said, for the most part, some of the more difficult schools to enter. If it were God's will that I could pick a school to attend and it would be so, then I would have done that but unfortunately I do not control these things and it is God who decides where I get interviewed at. I can only pray His will be done and that He draw me closer to Him in my life as I pursue what it is he has placed on my heart.
My first and foremost desire would be to stay in california where my family is, my daughter, and relatives are, but if this is not possible then I can't simply abandon my pursuit of medicine simply because I must attend out of state, or even attend a school whose beliefs may very greatly from mine own.
Please keep me in your prayers.
John, I don't know what to make of your post in its entirety. Are you dissuading me from attending? Looking down upon me for having applied here? What is the meaning of your post? I did detect some of your tongue in cheek humor however ;)
I do appreciate the information you both provided though on the school. I knew it was a christian school, just not all the nitty gritty details and I honestly don't really know who Jerry Farwell is, other than what you said of him Rene.
God bless,
Alex
P.S. John, when looking at the school itself, I consulted with http://www.liberty.edu/lucom/index.cfm?PID=27153, which is the directory for their medical school.
lilitalienboi16:
Rene, I would actually fly there October 11th, a Saturday, because I have to have a hotel and I'd like time to visit the campus which I could do the day prior--Sunday. This is the plan at least. They haven't sent me my itinerary yet but i'll keep you posted if for whatever reason you are available even just to meet up and chat for a little.
John from Kentucky:
Sorry Alex,
I have a black belt with oak leaf clusters in humor, but most people cannot understand or appreciate my level of humor, although I make myself laugh all the time.
Please ignore my comments. Most of my family are Christians so I just love them to death. I am happy that I have influenced my two sons not to attend any church.
You do not know who Jerry Falwell was. That makes me feel very, very old. Thanks for the humor.
Go and do where you are led. You have only one path that has already been set for you. Take care,
John
zvezda:
Hey Alex, check it out:
http://www.liberty.edu/financeadmin/auxiliaryservices/transitservices/index.cfm?PID=21011
see if you can use their shuttle service, it's only $10 from/to Lynchburg Airport round trip.
Good luck, not that you need it if God does plan to send you there ;)
lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: John from Kentucky on September 03, 2014, 05:05:41 PM ---Sorry Alex,
I have a black belt with oak leaf clusters in humor, but most people cannot understand or appreciate my level of humor, although I make myself laugh all the time.
Please ignore my comments. Most of my family are Christians so I just love them to death. I am happy that I have influenced my two sons not to attend any church.
You do not know who Jerry Falwell was. That makes me feel very, very old. Thanks for the humor.
Go and do where you are led. You have only one path that has already been set for you. Take care,
John
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No need to apologize dear brother. Your humor is something I usually comprehend but sometimes it is over my head. I'm not THAT smart ;)
Either way, thank you for showing your care for me. I know it was the heart of the matter in your expressing. You care enough at least to tell me what is on your mind! Of that I am extremely appreciative for.
Anyway, if you pray for me, keep it real! Pray for me like you would yourself John. With those open rebukes, no nonsense, sometimes hard to follow kind of humor. I mean it, sincerely!
Love to you,
Alex
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