Busy?

 

The job of a nurse is a difficult job.  I saw it firsthand last week when my wife was a patient at Memorial hospital for four days.  There are calls from rooms, paperwork to fill out, meds to dispense, and IVs to monitor.  My wife tries not to bother her nurse unless it is absolutely necessary.  The red call button is used only as a last resort.  I usually go to the nurse’s station to pick up ice or towels.  But Friday evening, when I went to the nurse’s station to tell Kathy’s nurse that her IV had run out, I saw the complete picture. Four nurses were chatting and laughing while call buttons were dinging, cell phones were ringing, and room lights were blinking.  Each nurse had an item in their hand, and they were busy with necessary work, but they had paused a moment to communicate and laugh with each other.  They were not ignoring their patients; it was just that the alarms and the lights and the phone calls never ended.  They never caught up.  They had learned to cope with the unending needs.  Hey, have you learned to tune out to the needs of others?  Do you feel sorry for older church members … but don’t have time to sit on the front porch and talk with them?  Do you wave to neighbors as you are on your way to church … but don’t have the time to stop by and actually speak to them about their eternal condition?  We must make the time to get involved with others.  Philippians 2:3-5, “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”  Jesus gave of Himself to others, and we should follow in His steps.