From the Good Ship . . .

Today's post has been reblogged from Nurse Kathy Wagner's blog, "Journey to Glory".

This poem, written by Beautiful Lyndy Cossey sums up my last three months and why I am returning to the ship for two more years.

Hands

When part of our body is hurting

We stretch out our hands to hold it

To staunch the bleeding

Support the wound

Enveloping it in love

There’s no question asked

We naturally just reach out

In love and care to hold our body

There’s a ship made of hands

That is reaching out

To where God’s body hurts

It brings love, care and hope

As the hands plow through the water

To where the body is hurting

To where it is bruised and sore

Hands reaching out to envelope

Those people with love and care

To staunch the bleeding, heal the wounds

Comforting hands

Strong hands

Loving hands

Supportive hands to those in need

To themselves, to those they love

To those they’ve never seen

I take a deep breath and sigh every time I read this! Yes, Yes!.....this is what I am to do with my life......reach out and "Go" to where the body is hurting! If it means sharing my home with 400+ people, sleeping in a bunk bed and waking to no windows, then so be it.....to know at the end of the day, at the end of my life that I served God and took care of HIS body.......what more Peace and JOY and "Happiness" could there be!