It appears I have a nurse who really doesn’t like me. She treated me badly last night, blaming me for her failure to get me on a bedpan before it was too late and her being forced to change my bedding. She came in today and must have been told by her charge nurse that she was to do better or something, because she is REALLY treating me like crap today. She speaks in disgusted tones and grunts, she takes her time getting to me, my IV leaked about a teaspoon of blood and watery liquid and she denies there was a leak, though I saw it for myself! She put in a new IV and was very thorough at moving it around and pushing the needle in and pulling it out several times. She was rough with the needle the same as she is being rough with the bedpan and with lifting my bed up and crushing my knee with the tray. I’m trying to be nice by not demanding a different nurse, but I’m nearing the end of my rope, and if someone is going to hang, it’s going to be her...not me!!
Pray for her. Try to see that nurse for who she *could be* in Christ. That nurse is a person for whom Christ loves, and wants a relationship with. See her potential if she knew Him, and fell in love with Him, finding Him to be her life. Right now she is an angry person. In Christ she could be a sister. Pray for her to find Him. Pray for an opportunity to leave a word with her, regardless how small.
I know, I know... easier said than done! This forgiveness stuff is easy to talk about until we have to do it ourselves. Me, too. When my mother was in the hospital, I was really REALLY peeved at some of those people. So I totally understand.
But you know Jesus... He has a way of sending us disagreeable people He wants to touch. It’s that “love” thing He was always going on about. :)
Everyone, let’s pray again for trussell:
“Lord, we ask again that you would heal trussell. We ask that You would be with her in the hospital, to be very present to her. We ask that when she is alone in the room, that your Spirit would come in a moving way and would touch her and show her Your peace.
“We honor You, Lord, and we praise You for what you are going to do in trussell’s body and life. She does not know why this is happening to her — and all the other trials she has faced recently — but Lord, she loves You and calls You her God. You call her yours, and have put Your Spirit in her. We ask you now to have Your will in her life and in her health. We ask for her to be healed and restored.
“Lord, we pray for trussell’s faith, that she would not go into fear. Help her to trust You through this. Hold her, be with her, and let her know that you are right there beside her, in that room.
“Lord, we praise You for being so wonderful. We thank You for working all this out for trussell, for being so strong for her. Thank You, Lord God!
“We ask these things in Jesus’ Name, amen.”