What a week and it's only Wednesday
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 fami