For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:21

Matthew 6: 19-21“Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or—worse!—stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being. (The Message Translation)

Its been exactly one week since my world as I knew it changed. I cannot say that it came crashing down or was wrecked or anything because truly…. while my family, as I knew it, was destroyed, through it all I realize what I love, whom I love and where my life is headed. While a few doors were slammed closed many more were opened and for that I cannot be anything but thankful and excited at the new world that awaits me!

I have spent the past few days busying myself with things that I love. I told myself that I wanted to just do something for the next few days that was just for ME! I wanted to follow my heart and just allow the passions that I feel to carry me wherever they would lead. Do you know what that led me to?

I find myself standing at a crossroads in my life. It is a place that I have not been before but while it is scary and new there is a fabulous future on the horizon. I found my heart. Somehow over the course of the past few years with Kyleigh I have managed to acquire a fondness and LOVE for the Kentucky Children’s Hospital. KCH has given me everything. Absolutely everything… and there is nothing I could ever do that would be enough to give back to it. I stand in its hallways and feel the weight of their importance. When I am in its halls I understand that impact that it is making on the world and that is something that I want, no MUST, be a part of it.

I have watched the way in which the doctors and nurses at KCH care for my princess and I have come to find a burden in my soul for KCH. For about a year now I have been getting the “itch” to go back to school. I have known that I always wanted to but never knew when would be a good time or how it would work out. Well when you find yourself starting back at zero you realize… for such a time as this!

I have always known that there could be no better way to live your life than in pursuit of helping others. I also know that I am DESTINED to change the world. What world that may be I don’t know. I am determined that nothing will stop me. It will not be an easy road and I am sure I will want to quit many times. But one day I will walk through those hallways as BOTH a parent and a physician and I will know that my life’s purpose has been fulfilled.

As I have said before… Kyleigh was sent to save me. To teach me how strong I truly am. To show me the path that my life was meant to be on. Amazing how such a tiny princess can impact someone so deeply. The funny thing is… I know that I am not the only one that she has had this effect on. She is two years old and her life purpose is already being fulfilled. How wonderful and amazing is that?

So today I proudly announce that I will return to school in the Fall to finish out my undergrad and then I will be headed to Med School. This is something I have wanted for a while and never thought that I could do. I had always said… oh we don’t have the money, I am not smart enough, I have three kids, what about the business, there is no way I am strong enough to do what those amazing people do… excuses are done. Because I AM strong enough, smart enough, willing enough. Most of all passionate enough. I left a part of my heart in that hospital and I am going to retrieve it! I have a long road ahead but I have spent eight years which have passed in the blink of an eye and this too shall pass by oh so quickly.

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