Friday, February 18, 2011

nurses mantle

As a little girl I dreamed of training as a nurse, getting married, having kids and ministering to the poor and needy. Maybe not every girls dream, but it was mine. Hard to believe this time next week it will have finally come to fruition!

A lovely resident at the retirement village I’ve been working at felt to give me this poem she was given many years ago by a man she nursed just before he passed on. It sums up my childhood desire to become a nurse well.


To be a nurse is to walk with God

Along the path the Master trod

To soothe the achings of human pain

To faithfully serve for little gain

To lovingly do a kindly deed

A cup of water to one in need

A tender hand on a fevered brow

A word of cheer to those living now

To reach the soul through the bodys woe

Oh this is the way God would go

So white capped girl in service true

Our Great Physician is working through you.

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