What a week and it's only Wednesday

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    This week has started out busy and stay that way.  It is the kind of week that you wish you could clone yourself, so you can be in three places at once.  More than once I wondered to myself how i was going to solve a problem that presented itself.  Yet, somehow I got through it.  This has been a good week to practice some deep breathing exercises.

    One of the other things that I have been thinking about when I have felt stressed this week is that God has seen me through a lot of things.  I was thinking about when I was a chaplain at WakeMed in Raleigh.  It is a 500 bed facility and I was the only chaplain there several times during weekends.  I had one night where I had 5 trauma calls I had to respond to in less than 90 minutes.  The chaplain goes to the trauma room and helps get the contact information for the family.  Then you call the family and let them know their family member is at the hospital.  It's a hard call to make.  Then, you sit and provide support to the family while they wait to see their loved one.  Sometimes it is good news and sometimes bad.  But, it is always stressful.

    Yet, after going through a nightmare of a week with a sudden infant death case and someone who had a car accident and multiple other issues, I survived it.  Not only did I survive, but I did pretty well.  The point is, that God saw me through it.  And that gives me hope that he will see me through the future as well.  Which, if we are going to be completely frank here, and I am, seems kinda scary to me too.  But, I know as a pastor friend of mine would say that God is not sitting on his throne popping antacids wondering what to do.  God is in control.  Even when it appears that He is silent.

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