Nurse guilt

You know what I am talking about… You had to work the day of your daughter’s recital and couldn’t get anyone to cover for you. It’s your Christmas to work, so you have to either get your kids up at the butt-crack of dawn or make them wait ’til you get home to open gifts (or not see their sweet faces at all when they open their gifts.) It’s d.ate night. Your spouse was counting on you being home this Friday so you can go out. Your best work friend called and he is making you feel more guilty about […]

Chewed up, spit out, and stepped on

(This is a sampling of what will be in my devotional book for nurses due to be released in the near future.) Quick breakroom verse: “The next morning Jesus woke up very early. He left the house while it was still dark and went to a place where he could be alone…” For further study later: Luke 4:42, Mark 6:32, Matthew 14:13, Mark 8:13, Luke 5:3 Let’s face it. This is hard work, y’all. Yes, you will hear my Texas come out in this post. Somehow our over-the-top language is the only thing that does our exhaustion justice. I could’ve […]