Today was my last day of work. For the last three and a half years, I worked at Duke’s clinical microbiology lab doing infectious disease testing. I started a few months before graduating university; it was my first “real life job.”

When I first started, there was so much to learn and so much to take in. I loved it. I tried to take every opportunity to absorb everything I could. As a new person, my only duty was to learn so that I could better serve later. 

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I received an email from Mercy Ships asking if I could head out to the ship two weeks earlier than my scheduled start date. It wasn’t a small request; I already booked my flights, I had travel plans with my family before leaving, and I still need to pack my apartment and move out. On the other hand, I would already be done with work, and money is just a material thing that will fade when we move to eternity. 

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