My household recently got together and discussed this past Sundays (9-6-15) gospel reading and I thought I would share with you something that one of them said that really stuck with me. What she said was the fact that when Jesus came and healed the deaf man with a stutter he uses materials that even to this day are considered to be extremely unsanitary or even grows, saliva and dirt. To spit on someone, especially in this time, is a great offense and yet Jesus takes his spit and puts it on the man's tongue, then, grabs the dirt that we all grind under our feet and cattle have done unspeakable things on and puts that in his ears! Jesus is physically showing us that he can take the most disgusting things on this planet and make them do wonderful things such as healing the sick.
Today in my Nursing Fundamentals class we discussed this image:
He asked us if this picture affected us. The obvious answer for any Christian is yes it does affect us. But where he was getting at is that we as Nurses take on the role of loving those whom everyone has abandoned and show them love, to help those families who have just lost loved ones. We are the ones who are still there when all the doctors and specialists have gone. We are the last defense for the family and our patients. So not only does the picture above affect me, but the gospel reading this past Sunday hits home. My personal goal as a nurse is to be Christ to my patients and to be able to see him in them, I want to be able to take my patients out of despair, pain, heartache, panic, and show them that there is a way out if they just follow me.
I hope that even after years of being in hospital room after hospital room I don't loose sight of what my sister in household said: "No matter how bad things look or what you've done, the miracle will always come."
May God Bless you all your days,
Clara Peck
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