Seeing Pink
While arriving at a hospital with a patient, I noticed a nurse who was limping down the hallway with an immobilizer on her foot. As we passed in the hallway, I told her I wanted to have a word with her after we dropped off our patient. After we got our patient settled in into his room, I went hunting for the nurse. It didn’t take long to find her. “Do you mind if I…
Time Warp to Work
My wife drives me to work every day. We have a morning routine that involves snooze alarms, two types of coffee, and an ingenious method of getting hot water from our garage to our bathroom. Yesterday morning, we left the house at 5:43 am. It was a little later than I like to leave, but it should have put us at the station at 6 am – the exact time that my shift starts. We…
Are You Crazy? Who Wouldn’t Want to Go to Australia?
Today’s guest blogger is….MY WIFE.This is a message my wife wrote about about our trip to Australia in September of 2012. She discusses the problems she wrestled with and the ways in which God showed her His faithfulness. My husband, Praying Medic, the author of this blog, and I had many wonderful experiences on our ministry trip to Brisbane, Australia. He asked me to write about a particular series of events surrounding the trip from my perspective…
The Banker’s Mum
When traveling for pleasure, we generally eat whatever pleases us. One of the perils of traveling for ministry is found in the command of Jesus to remain in the home where you find a person of peace and eat what they put before you. (See Luke 10:6-7) This command wouldn’t bother me so much were it not found smack in the middle of the rest of his instructions to the disciples, where he told them…
The Banker – A Person of Peace
The economic collapse of 2008 left many of us with some bitterness toward the banking industry. Bankers themselves have received a lot of criticism since then. My trip to Australia put me in close contact with one particular banker. What I’ve experienced since meeting him has changed my perspective. The banker I would meet had created a successful life for himself, but his life wasn’t always one of fortune. He spent his younger days in…