Patience and love

God has been showing me a lot at work lately through my patients.
Some days it's easy to just go and do my job, and I tend to be a
very task oriented person and try to just get stuff done. Sometimes
I feel like I just go through the motions. But I've been praying that
God would help me to give all of myself to what I spend time doing,
because a lot of life is spent at work, and I have the chance to
give all of myself in love for Him or just go thru the motions.
So here are a few stories of how He has worked in cool ways.

I took care of a middle-aged guy about a month ago in with severe
back pain who was also bipolar. So he was pleasant at times, but
when I couldn't give him exactly what he wanted he got quite mean
and set on wanting his exact dose of a sleeping pill. I had 2 other
very demanding patients that night and was very frustrated, but prayed
that God would help him be at peace that night...so next time I went in
and gave him his sleeping pill, he was fine with it. Around 2am I checked
on him and since he was awake, decided to stop and talk to him, and ended
up talking quite awhile. Later, he told me that our conversation and
me taking time to talk helped him feel better as much as any medicine he
was getting that night. :)

I've taken care of a couple older ladies lately who I would describe as
a little strange and very needy at times. I get impatient and don't
always feel like taking the time to talk to these kind of people,
but have felt like God wants me to give more love and patience to the
patients who are especially harder to deal with. So I took the time
to listen and care, even if I didn't feel like it. And I was sad when
getting report from nurses who took care of these ladies during the day,
they were annoyed with taking care of them. One said she basically
snubbed the one lady and tried not to get into conversations because
she was weird. It hit me then...these ladies deserve all the love
and time that anyone else does, because God cares about them as much
as the patients who are easy to take care of and fun to talk to.
They both later thanked me for caring and I could tell they seemed
happy that someone wanted to listen.

"The LORD upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed
down...the LORD is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all that
he has made."
Psalm 145:`14, 17