Sunday 8/23/09 - "BITS OF BLUE"

Baby Blues *

Blue moon - I love blue cheese

Blue - spirituality, mysticism

Am I a little Blue? In a Blue mood?

Alone in the mysterious "blueness"

Blue is Beautiful - all it's Brilliant shades and hues


"BITS OF BLUE"

Prayer Girl

(*Photo credit: Baby Blue Eyes Portrait Painting by William Everly, fineartamerica.com)

Tuesday, 3/17/09 - "BLUE - CODE BLUE - THINGS NEW"

(Weird picture? Weird day!)

"BLUE - CODE BLUE -
THINGS NEW"

Yesterday was GREEN - Today is BLUE - And many things NEW happened today.

• BLUE is my favorite color. My eyes change color and sometimes they are blue.

• Some NEW things happened today on the volunteer job. I was finished for the day and preparing to return to the area where I sign in and out when I heard "CODE BLUE" in Angioplasty announced several times over the hospital-wide intercom. Several minutes later my pager went off. I was sent ASAP to the Angioplasty area where someone's heart had stopped. Luckily, by the time I arrived, they had successfully brought the patient, a lady, back. The room was overflowing with people - doctors, nurses, many others. I saw a gentleman in the hallway and asked him if he was related. It was the lady's husband. He was pretty 'shook up', but all is well that .....you know how it goes.

• Another 'first' today was an emergency page to ICU. Someone was dying and it was happening quickly. I had only minutes to get there. As I entered the area, the nurse ushered me to the room where three men were around the bed of a lady who was probably wife and mother to the three. She was close to being gone as I entered and they asked if I could give her last rites. (LORD HELP ME!) I had zero time to compute what to say or do so I said I couldn't do that, but I could pray which I did. Later, back in the office, the Chaplain was there and said in a circumstance like that I could refer to the "Emergency Minister" pamphlet I have. (Lots still for me to learn.) Still having some of that perfectionism inside me, I was less than pleased with my performance in this situation. But as I thought more about it, I realized I had placed my whole day in God's hands before I even arrived at the hospital, I did the best I could all day, and I know God was in that ICU room. I allow my mind to rest in the knowledge that whatever I managed to pray came from God and was a comfort for those men who obviously loved this lady greatly. GOD HELP ME! I FELT SO INADEQUATE!
  

• I worked 8:30 - 12:30. I was invited to attend a graduation ceremony for 5 people at 10 am. They were graduating from a 22 week intensive 'Pastoral Care Course'. All graduates were either functioning as or planning to be ministers or chaplains. One graduate had a motorcycle ministry, out-reaching to bikers.

• I'm not feeling 'blue' - I'm feeling good about the day. What a day it was!

• Bodies of water are blue. Water is a symbol of spirituality. Ergo, in my opinion, blue is a spiritual color.

God bless you bloggers,
Prayer Girl

(Photo credit: By race_30)