I love the days when you get in a conversation with a person and you come out it feeling so blessed to have been part of that person's life or just to have shared that moment with them. And not only has it happened once but very often within the past 2 weeks. I can't talk much about my interactions with my patients but I did see a very pleasant mid aged woman that had a kidney transplant a few years ago who was now a bilateral amputee and was missing several fingers due to long standing diabetes and non healing wounds. This woman lived by herself, and did everything by herself. She cooked, cleaned, even took the bus to the grocery store by herself. She told me she was going back to school so she could get a job and better herself... and she was learning how to walk again now with special prostheses. She told me she went through a lot and yes it was hard to see others up walking around and not having to be stuck in a chair but she also told me that God had a plan for her and she trusted that. She was still alive and she was going to be as normal as possible, and that people didn't need to feel sorry for her.
In the medical world you don't always have a lot of time to spend with your patients, but I just couldn't interrupt this woman when she told me her story. I was on the verge of tears just because of her attitude towards life and her witness of her trust in God's will for her. I walked out from that room with my heart smiling. God disguises himself in the lowly, the abandoned, and the poor. I am truly grateful for the opportunity to serve others in my line of work. Some days it feels more like a burden than anything but I like to think about what G.K. Chesterton said, "To love means loving the unlovable..or it is no virtue at all." It just seems to put things into perspective, that it is easy to love those who are nice or who are most like us but those aren't the people who need our love the most.
I think we all need a reminder of why we are here, and how can we share the blessings we've been given with others. I am so grateful for the Love of Christ in my life and I hope to share it to everyone I encounter because He is my reason for living and for serving others.
+AMDG+
