The highlight of my INMED adventure is the exemplary people whom I meet in the course of “equipping healthcare professionals to serve the forgotten.” These include individuals living sacrificial lives in distant nations, students in the US whose enthusiasm for under-served people is truly inspiring, and the exceptional leaders in the INMED office: Micah Flint, Skylar Rolf, and Elizabeth Mowry – people of profound vision and integrity. All these people draw out the very best from within me and make me endeavor to a better man.
But people of vision and integrity are constantly under fire, tempted to compromise or become distracted. From where will we draw courage and conviction? I personally find the account of Daniel’s life to be particularly inspiring, and I trust you will as well:
“Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. At this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent.” Daniel 6:3-4
In 2012 may you and I be people of integrity like Daniel!