Monday, August 27, 2007
Sunset. As beautiful as the sunrise.
Today I was reminded of the important things in life, the beauty of dying, and why I may yet be a hospice nurse. One of the patients that has often been a source misery today showed me a glimpse of something beautiful. After months of health problems, being incompliant, and swinging from sweet to outright mean, this patient, along with family, decided not to go to extreme measures to prolong life.We often question why we must suffer and die. Facing death brings us up close with eternity and what really matters. Even for this patient, the concern was who would care for the family. To see this person show concern for someone other than self was like a sacred moment. Helen Keller once said: "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." What is overcoming suffering? It's something more than getting well and going home.There is so much more that could and should be said here. Perhaps you will fill it in for me?
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Is overcoming suffering, looking beyond our current trials and seeing the end result and then setting to doing whatever we can to effect the result for good? For example: If we see that the end result is death, should we not seek out He who can save us from eternal death? And as your patient did, put our focus elsewhere besides our ownself? Thanks for the food for thought. :)
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