So this month, I have a rotation at Shelby Baptist Hospital. I'm working with one of my professors from Samford and another student. We're learning alot, doing total parental nutrition checks, vancomycin and aminoglycoside dosing...and blah blah blah blah blah.. Yea, I won't bore you with all the details for fear of putting you to sleep.
Its been awhile since I posted anything, mainly because I've had nothing to write about. Life is moving by at warp speed and time is not stopping for anyone. The rotation that I'm on is known as an adult medicine rotation, thus I see a little bit of everything everyday. I also keep long hours to keep up with the pace of how much we're learning. Usually I'm at the hospital around 5am and I'll leave around 4pm.
So, I'm sitting at dinner with my girlfriend the other night, its around 9PM and I start to tell her how I've been awake since 4am. We're talking, we're talking...And then I pause. I look at her and say, "what are we powered by?" She says, "What do you mean?" Then, I proceed to state, "Well, have you ever realized that we're creatures that function without battery, electricity, water energy, wind energy, and don't forget nuclear energy!" She looks at me and says, "Sam...are you delusional?"
I've told this brief story I guess to prove a point. I'm calling it my battery pack theory as to explain the mystery of God. So often we forget about his existence. But in my long days of being on rotation, without much sleep and waking up at the crack of dawn, and sometimes hopping in the car and then working another four or five hour shift at Walgreens, I started to ask myself one thing over and over. Where do I receive my energy? Who gives me my strength?
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I take God for granted everyday. But who amongst us doesn't take God for granted and life for granted? Think about it. We don't walk around with energizer battery packs strapped to our bodies, and you don't have to plug yourself up to an outlet at night to recharge. Its really crazy to think about it like that, but on a delusional night and not much sleep, it made perfect sense.
Its been awhile since I posted anything, mainly because I've had nothing to write about. Life is moving by at warp speed and time is not stopping for anyone. The rotation that I'm on is known as an adult medicine rotation, thus I see a little bit of everything everyday. I also keep long hours to keep up with the pace of how much we're learning. Usually I'm at the hospital around 5am and I'll leave around 4pm.
So, I'm sitting at dinner with my girlfriend the other night, its around 9PM and I start to tell her how I've been awake since 4am. We're talking, we're talking...And then I pause. I look at her and say, "what are we powered by?" She says, "What do you mean?" Then, I proceed to state, "Well, have you ever realized that we're creatures that function without battery, electricity, water energy, wind energy, and don't forget nuclear energy!" She looks at me and says, "Sam...are you delusional?"
I've told this brief story I guess to prove a point. I'm calling it my battery pack theory as to explain the mystery of God. So often we forget about his existence. But in my long days of being on rotation, without much sleep and waking up at the crack of dawn, and sometimes hopping in the car and then working another four or five hour shift at Walgreens, I started to ask myself one thing over and over. Where do I receive my energy? Who gives me my strength?
I take God for granted everyday. But who amongst us doesn't take God for granted and life for granted? Think about it. We don't walk around with energizer battery packs strapped to our bodies, and you don't have to plug yourself up to an outlet at night to recharge. Its really crazy to think about it like that, but on a delusional night and not much sleep, it made perfect sense.
We do have physical batteries. They come in slightly more sophisticated packages than your average Duracell batteries. It's called Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP). Again that's your physical resource. But if you are in the medical field like us, you know it takes more than ATPs to make it through. It takes preserverance, faith, belief and disclipline. That resource is continually supplied and maintained by the belief in a higher being, a higher purpose. When you wonder how far you've come, that's the work of God giving....when you find the energy to complete an undaunting task.....that's the Hand of God working through you.
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