26 day writing challenge-day 4 'gift'

 

A time someone encouraged me when I needed it the most

I'm struggling to think of one exact moment.  There are different times when I get encouraged in life like when my kids say thank you after dinner after I've had an exhausting day.   When a patient tells me thank you for supporting their health care.   When I receive words of wisdom from the pastor on a Sunday morning.   These are the gifts that encourage me to keep going and be the mom, healer, child of God he has called me to be. 

Now I remember one moment.  I was a medical student at King Drew hospital starting a new rotation feeling nervous, and uncertain as I would be most of my medical training.   Always under constant scrutiny to please my professors and attendings.   When I stepped into an administrators office, my head turned down to a scripture card on the desk.  It read 'Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, -Colossians 3: 23.  reminding me to keep the patient care in mind first, not to please anyone else but to serve the Lord.  If I do that, how can I go wrong.  This is something I carried with me til now in my current practice.