a heart for nursing

I wanted to share this with you. I had a pt the other day who is an owner of a retirement home. Her brother told me a lot about her. Apparently she was the kind of person who spent her whole life caring for others. She looked into the hearts of people and looked for caring individuals to work at the center she own. She often hired people who were new to our country, she would pay their husbands to work as maintenance men or land scapers, painters, drivers ... And the women, she hired to work as Aides and then she would go on to help them with school to persue a career in nursing. She would buy their kids school clothes, supplies and shoes and help them any way she could until they got on their feet. Some of those people stayed and worked for her 20 or 30 years. Now she is sick and needing care and has so many people there for her, supporting her through her illness. She looks at a person's heart and spirit and hires them according to the feeling she gets from them--are they doing this because they just need a job, or do they really care about people and want to help them. Her story reminded me how we can be missionaries wherever we are,, everyday of our lives. She really impressed me. she also said she has worked with NU for many years and is quite impressed with the nurses from BSON !!

"What's that mean???"

I decided to get a tattoo on my wrist so when I hold out my hand to someone, they will see it and ask me "What's that mean?"....... I thought When I heard those words, I could say...
"N O T W" and then I would go on to tell them how it represents my religion. Well, today, while I was at the hospital---it happened. "What is that diddy on your wrist??" he asked....
I said, "what?? Oh, it means not of the world" and I walked out before he could say anything else. So I prayed and asked God what happened, I had rehearsed this so many times and I just missed my chance. I was bummed and wished I had what it takes to be bold, I got this stinkin tattoo and I don't even use it. Well, I had to go back in the room a few minutes later and the guy said to me "it's a shame, we can't talk about that" and he pointed to my wrist. I was stunned! Okay, Lord, THANK YOU, I thought... and then I said.... we can talk about it. It is from the bible when Jesus says we should be in the world but not of the world. And then we talked about Christianity and what it means to be a believer in Jesus. A very cool moment for me, I thought I would share with ya all how I lived out my faith while nursing today :)