Have you ever looked at someone else,
who seemed a little strange to you and were tempted to criticize that person;
or God forbid, make fun of them? I’m pretty sure that all of us have found him
or herself in this situation.
Recently I was visiting a friend in
the hospital, and while there, I decided to start “people watching”. This is a
great way to help develop a character or even several characters for a story.
Anyway, there was this one nurse that
came in and introduced herself, even extending her hand in an offer of
friendship. Then she proceeded to completely erase the “Patient Care” board.
This board gives the patient’s name, the attending nurse for that shift, along
with the attending tech.
Additionally, the board tells things
about the patient: (i.e.) whether the patient is allowed to eat or drink; the
patient’s meds; how often meds at to be administered, etc. Actually, there are
over a dozen different things, relative to the patient and the staff listed on
this board. Usually, the nurse for that particular shift will usually just
erase the last nurse’s name and replace it with their own. But not this nurse;
everything had to be erased and re-written by her. Also, as she is doing this,
she is explaining that she is OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), everything
has to be ‘just so’ and they must make it that way, or they can’t function well.
I later chuckled to my friend about
how each of us struggles to exist in a world with unnumbered rules and
regulations; a world with so many different functions that must be performed by
people, and yet each of us struggles with our own malfunctions (depression,
anxiety, rejection, control, passivity, etc.) trying to function properly in a dysfunctional
world.
It reminded me of an old saying, which
most of you have probably heard or read before. “There is so much good in the
worst of us; and so much bad in the best of us; that it hardly behooves any of
us, to talk about the rest of us.”
Truer words were never spoken; the
incident with the nurse reminded me, once again, to be patient with everybody
and not to judge anyone. We are all crippled; we all need help of some kind, or
from someone. Therefore, I concluded that it is only in the eyes of God that we
can be seen as perfect and that only, if we have accepted Jesus as our personal
savior, and God is looking at Christ’s merits and attributing to our account –
imputed righteousness.
Thank God for Jesus! Until next time,
be kind to everyone that you meet and it will come back to you.
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