Dec. 22, 2009 — South Pole

Perhaps you remember the great southern writer Walker Percy.  Percy attended UNC in Chapel Hill in the 1930s, and afterwards he headed for Columbia University where he received a medical degree.

Working in a New York hospital as an intern, he contracted TB. TB was treated much differently in those days, and he was sent for an extended period of recuperation.

In his recovery of several years, Percy read works from Dostoevsky, theologians Augustine, Aquinas and Kierkegaard. After spending several years in the medically imposed waiting room, Percy knew what he would do with his life: He would become a writer, not a doctor.

Well, it is often in the waiting rooms of our life that God helps us discover our purpose.

Just a thought. I'm Sid Batts from First Presbyterian Church in downtown Greensboro, fpcgreensboro.org.