Living Between Two Worlds

This is the first post on the blog for Daktari Life. The idea to do this comes from a friend that I respect very much who read my update emails from our time in Kenya in January. I posted the pics of the Rift Valley and the Sequatchie Valley because it seems our life remains centered between these two. Just this afternoon I have finished the research abstract from our January's work in Kenya. The men and women who work in that clinic system do work that changes the world. My job is to tell their story. And it is a great story. Their success treating HIV amidst the greatest challenges to survival is a story that should be shouted to the mountaintops. And while we look to the future of medicine in America, and focus ourselves on the patient-centered medical home, we would do well to learn from some of the most unusual and difficult places in the world.

Our dreams still put us in both valleys, and bringing them together is the Gordian knot, the risk and uncertainty that drives us to faith. The next set of decisions for us are about ID fellowship, where and under what circumstances to pursue it. What is most in line with our core values and mission? The mystery is what leads to growth. "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is men who have come alive."