Hope, Strength, and Courage

Oct 5

Hope, Strength, and Courage

Hope, Strength and Courage: With Stories in Medicine Training and the Atypical Sibling Rivalry

by Kathryn Lee

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GENRE: Autobiography – Medical and Family

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BLURB:

This book has been a self-reflective journey of a medical doctor as an ordinary person going through ordinary life’s ups and downs. In epistolary form, its articles were written during the special time of her first year of training to become a general practitioner/family physician, including making the tough decision to give up hospital specialist training, “withdrawing” from fast-paced hospital work, transitioning to working from a metropolitan hospital to a rural community clinic, witnessing and getting used to a younger sibling’s growing up, and being independent from a close and loving family. Some also feature a promotion of the author’s new academic career at the start of the COVID 19 pandemic and how it was perceived. The book shows a journey of love, strength, perseverance, purpose and encouragement. Lots of anecdotes, lots of stories, lots of quotes. With love and respect.

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EXCERPT:

If I can gain a new perspective on life, grow out of struggles, and let go of negativities, you can do it too. The secret is to do it with God, with family, and with your own inner, truest self. God knows each and every one of our thoughts, actions, and feelings. He is ordering our steps and knows what is coming in our future. We must trust and follow His way. Recently I learned from listening to YouTube podcasts and Sunday sermons from our pastor that one of the most powerful abilities for us to master in life is to control our minds. By doing this, we are prepared and ready to face down emotions, and inner struggles instead of projecting them outward in anger and frustration. Bring them to God, and deal with them in God’s way. A profound statement by Dan Lok, a self-made influencer and multi-millionaire, is that, “Success is not defined by achievement or monetary gains; it is by significance.” Yes, once we take the initiative to control our minds and put the definition of success into the perspective of significance, then we are able to do the things God wants us to do, and be the person God wants us to become.

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