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Continue reading →: Nursing service has to be driven by love or it’ll burnout(Image from Nursing Times) There’s a tension between the idea of nurses being professionals who are above the tasks of caring for a person and the idea of nurses, from their Christian roots, being called to serve the poor and most in need. As I’m reading Called to Care- A…
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Continue reading →: Why I support #RedForEdThe day after tomorrow teachers across the state of Arizona are going to walkout of their schools in protest of the current state of the Arizona public education system. I have a mix of thoughts. Mostly though, I support Arizona’s school teachers. The rhetoric and commentary that surrounds this walkout…
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Continue reading →: The gospel when your kid screws up big time.Being a believer in Christ means I believe the story that God sent his Son to be born as a baby, live the life I was meant to live in perfect love of God and others but don’t (can’t), and die as the only God-Man who’s death could absorb all…
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Continue reading →: Nurses, we are our patientsFriday the 13th I became a patient at the hospital where I work. I had a robotic total hysterectomy with salpingectomy and cystoscopy. After years of battling endometriosis, and recently bleeding, pain and fibroid issues I decided it was time for the worn out organ to go. Being on the…
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Continue reading →: As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can. -Julius CaesarDon’t worry about tomorrow. Each day has enough trouble of its own. For sure. But from where I sit on this fine Sunday evening, today hasn’t had any more trouble than no AC on a 92 degree desert spring day. It was a good day. And from the goodness of…
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Continue reading →: My relationship with the Jesus I’ve never seen but loveIf I was one of the disciples who followed Jesus while he walked on this planet, I would have been one he looked at and said, “Oh ye of little faith. Why do you doubt?” (Matthew 14:31, 6:30, 8:26, 16:8, 17:20). My faith-relationship with this Jesus I’ve never seen but…
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Continue reading →: Living from a gospel-transformed identityI’ve been wrestling with how to put to words what God has been teaching me about my identity from John 13 for the past year. Yesterday I found someone with the words I’ve been looking for. In the Preparing our Hearts for Easter: A Lenten Devotional, day 38 titled, “The…
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Continue reading →: Burning out nurses are a seismographic reading of the coming tsunami in healthcareIt’s a buzz I hear every shift I work, “The hospital is short nurses and aides…” The tension on the unit is thick. Will there be enough nurses? Will I have to take more than 6 patients? Will I only have 1 CNA for my unit of 25 patients? Will…
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Continue reading →: A morning argument with my accuser“Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” -John 14:21 A short meditation before I leave for work this morning. As I read this…
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Continue reading →: I am womanA lot of bad things happen to women because men abuse their power. And a lot of women use their power to do bad things. And in both cases we have believed a lie about who we are. Lying to women about who they are has been a tactic of…
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