PASTOR MARTIN'S
MESSAGE
for JUNE 2008
"For
it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I
am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame
was not hidden from
you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth." Psalm 139:13-15.
Throughout most of high school, I felt that God was calling me to a career in the sciences. I had this
ongoing interest in how things worked and happened and excelled in physics and
other science classes. I was also accepted in the advanced biology class in my
junior year in high school. I saw myself in some laboratory somewhere maybe finding the cure for cancer or any
other life threatening disease. Though all of this would come crashing down upon
me when I took my first chemistry class and had to take the class
pass/fail to keep to my current my grade point average. I found it
rather hard to memorize all of the chemistry elements and all of their
components; let alone what would happen if they were joined together. I also
found that I wasn't all that analytical when
it came to math and to the sciences, but far more creative in my understanding of life and the world. Since those
days in high school and that chemistry class, I have often wondered what would
have happened if chemistry had not been that hard for me and I had
pursued a career as a scientist, though my love for being with people would have made it hard for me to put on the lab
coat and spend all of the time in a laboratory.
This coming summer my dream
to become a scientist will finally come true, as our
