Healthcare Professionals

Year 8-Day 92:Today, I am grateful for healthcare professionals. 

So many of our family and friends are involved in healthcare as first responders in one way or another. It is humbling to think that most of them is putting their own health and families at risk because they show up to work to keep their oaths to protect, serve and heal. 

Love is doing the right thing, even when it is hard. Even when it seems beyond what should be expected of any one human being. Love is washing the feet of another... and the back and in some cases... wiping the bottom. 

The trenches of healthcare and rescue services isn't pretty. It can be exhausting physically, mentally and emotionally. Still, they go. In the wee hours of the morning and answering midnight calls... they are there for help and comfort.

Tonight, we can say a special prayer for those who must triage, assess and evaluate how care for the masses of sick people around them. Tonight, we can leave a light on for them. 

I borrowed this picture from my cousin, Angie. Four of her five children are in healthcare or first responders. Our future daughter-in-law is on her way to being a nurse, but as she works her way there, she serves as a CNA with a tenderness her nursing home residents desperately need, as most cannot have visitors at this time. We are grateful for the ones who care for my Mama while she is not allowed visitors. 

Those who care of the sick and weakened by age are doing important work, from the custodial staff to the administrators making weighty decisions. I am always reminded of this passage:

“Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink?  Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing? When did we ever see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ "And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters,] you were doing it to me!’" -Matthew 25:37-40

Thank you for your service to the sick and hurting... and to the King. 

Today, I am grateful for healthcare professionals.