Welcome to the “Doc-sy” series, as in OrthoDOXY (right doctrine), where you will find short essays aimed at truth, especially truths pertaining to whole person health.  These essays arise from the life of a “Doc” practicing medicine while also leading my own family through a crazy world. […]

Welcome to the “Prac-sy” series, where you will find short essays aimed at living out truth in applying it, in other words the “Prac-tical” side.  These essays arise from practice of life in our fallen world and the practice of medicine with chronically ill patients living through major health storms.  This endeavor exceeds the capacity for this one post to cover or to even introduce adequately.  […}

We live life deeper than physical reality as we are more than the sum of our physical parts.  More than just the biochemical synthesis of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and minerals, we are thinking and feeling beings.  We possess heads that think, remember, reason, and choose.  We have hearts, or spirits, that feel and sense beyond the physical.  Theologians and philosophers debate

We were created for relationship. Though man may live alone on an island, we are not made to be a lone island.  It was not good for Adam to be alone (Genesis) so Go provided Eve and He visited them in the garden.  We naturally, by design, gather with others for many reasons.  This gathering can bless or can curse depending on with whom we gather and how it is done as well as for what purpose. […]