I’m sure at one point in your life you have been in the hospital or visited someone in the hospital and seen the busy nurses running around, helping the patients, bringing them medication or food or changing the beds.  But have you ever really seen the doctors with the patients?

I’ve had a lot of time in the hospital and seen for myself what it is like.  They all stand around together in their white coats, nicely clean and smooth with not a spot of dirt, blood, spit, or any sign of ‘hands on’ time with the patients.  Just picture this… walking down the road and seeing your neighbour in the garden with high heels and in a wedding dress making sure she doesn’t get her hands dirty or her dress dirty.  It doesn’t make sense, does it? Why work in a garden and not want to tend to the seeds that will later feed you?

Many of the people in the hospital are the ones that spent their lives working and paying taxes so that these doctors and nurses today can have jobs.  So really, if we think about it, the patients in the hospital are the employers of the nurses and the doctors.  So why then are doctors walking around making the orders when if those patients weren’t there, he or she would not have a job?

Imagine that!  If there were no illnesses, or diseases, or cancer, or heart problems or anything to make a hospital exist, what would the nurses and doctors do?  Maybe they would be the ones in the bed and we would be the ones deciding what’s ‘best for them’.  But one day, whether they realize it or not, they might be in the same position as some of those patients that they now treat.  If we were to ask them “Would you want the same treatment you give to your patients given to yourselves?”  Would they say yes or no?  And if ‘no’, then why don’t you treat them as you would want to be treated?  Doesn’t that reflect what this man once said, “Love one another as I love you.” 

What if we all love that much like this man did, what would happen?  Let’s look at this for a minute.  This man Jesus loved so much that he could make the lame walk, the blind see, the sick healthy, the sad happy, the mentally ill well, and the dead rise.  If he was here today and walked into, let’s say St. Boniface Hospital and told all the patients “Get up and go home because you are well”…  wouldn’t that be a lot of paper work for the doctors?  Maybe too much - so get the nurses to do it.

What we all forget is that we have that power within us to go and visit the ones in hospital, and make their illness go away, because we love them that much.  Love is the greatest medicine of all and it can and will cure all things.  Healing can come so fast to the ones you love that you will find the doctors and nurses worried that there must be something wrong because the patient is too happy or too well … they won’t be able to keep up with what’s happening.

When did the word ‘doctor’ become the word ‘master’?  The definition of doctor should be changed to servant.  It shouldn’t be a ‘profession’ but a vocation - a vocation of love for all, for the well being of everyone.  Then you will see that your vocation will never end.  A profession can end but a vocation is forever.

So begin wherever you are, in whatever profession or job, start right now… as a vocation.  A vocation is always making sure that what you do is for the well-being of others and not yourself, because you thank God for those who have put their lives into your hands, and you will see that change all around you, come to life in others.  Then you will never have to worry about job security because the security will be in the happiness of the people around you and not in the money you make from it.

 Now to all doctors and nurses and even to all who read this: start asking yourselves “What is the best for me?” Then you’ll find the answers in the people around you who rely on your judgement.  Then you will see that many times it’s not the illness making them sicker, but that it is you not realizing what’s really best for him or her.  All healings first start in the mind.  Mind over matters. 

Thank you for reading this and taking the time to see that all things are possible.  Believing that all things are possible is the first step to healing and walking out of thehospital.  So step out of the box, look at it, and see that it’s empty - because now you are outside … then you will see that no walls can put a stop to making great things happen, when you only believe that all things are possible.

God bless you and we love you all!

Thank you!
From the Mission of the Shroud