Nurses will agree that the nursing process always begins with assessment. Self-care and restoration, or healing our imbalances, also begins with self-assessment. It requires some boldness to look at ourselves, but with our core baptismal identity grounding us as daughters of a loving God, we can act boldly to face who we are right now, this day!
Seven years ago, we made a major life change, moving just as we are moving now. A fellow parish nurse, Monica, moved six months later. By e-mail I sent Monica the lessons I had learned from my move. Last week, Monica “snail-mailed” a copy of that email message back to me. She was gracing my transition with the very words of support I had given to her!
As sisters of Christ, we are not alone on our journey toward wholeness and balance. We can give each other support, encouragement and understanding as we share similar pathways.
This message is excerpted from the Bible study “Act boldly with balance” by Sue Ann and Ron Gluesenkamp, a 2006 resource of the Women of the ELCA. Today we commemorate Florence Nightingale, 1910; Clara Maass, 1901; renewers of society.
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