Hospice Thoughts

Just some reflections looking back over the last 5 years as a chaplain.

I have the power God gives me. The power to be: myself, a child of God, to be present.

That is my power.

I do not have the power to fix. I do not have the power to solve. I do not have the power to make tears stop forever, or wounds heal, or eyes open.

Maybe I can witness the Power and the Glory of God do those things through my patients. But I do not have the power to fix them or solve them or make them understand. I am not a band-aid. When I allow myself to be applied like one, when I think I will bandage all the wounds and heal all the hurts, I become useless.

But I need not be useless.

I am not powerless.

I am myself.

I am a child of I AM.

Here I am, Lord. Send me.

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