Geezzz She's pregnant!!

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I was so excited and nervous. Excited, that I am finally experiencing the real life of a nursing student. Nervous, that maybe I am not be qualified to do this. I silently prayed to God to prepare me.

As I walked past in the hallways of our dormitory, I realized how beautiful the uniform was. I love the fact that I am wearing this prestigious blue and white uniform, “type A” as they say. I looked in the mirror looking at my own reflection. Indeed nursing is an art. I excitedly went down stairs to see the rest of my group mates. We started with devotion and a prayer in time with the arrival of our beloved Kuya Willie. It was hard to sit in the FX because were a bit crowded. My uniform couldn’t help but be wrinkled inside.

The journey was not that long. After the courtesy call we hurriedly went to the real world. As I stepped my first foot in the health center, I was awed with the surrounding. It was clean and new. Our beloved clinical instructor, Ma’am Ramos instructed us to change into our scrub suits. Again I was astonished and excited at the same time.

They told us of the sign of the buzzer. It was a blessing if it will rung two times. It will mean for a possibility of a mother, giving birth to her child. Of course it is a blessing because we will be given a chance to hold a newly born baby for the first time. We had days when we often loose hope that God will ever give us a patient. But God is good, He gave us these wonderful mothers. One of them was “Ate Mitzy”. I was the “actual” that time when she gave birth to her child.

At first I thought that we will just do the internal examination with her. I decided to put my gloves. But when I turned my back on, I was alarmed to see the baby approaching. The first time I saw the baby coming out, I was so shocked. I couldn’t help but ask myself how that thing came out of there. It happened so fast, before I realized it I was holding the baby in my own hands.

After that, I thought that giving birth was easy. I was wrong, I was there when the midwife was endlessly mending her broken inside. There was no Anesthesia. I saw the pain in her eyes. She could not take the pain so she ends up crying and shouting. I could not do anything to ease her pain. I could not help her. “Ate, do deep breathing with your mouth and relax.” It was easy saying that but how can you relax with that kind of situation. The midwife was having a hard time because she kept on disobeying her instructions making the matter worse. It seems forever while patiently waiting there. Finally, the pain was over. The midwife instructed us to put her in the ward with the stretcher. There, in her bed was her baby. I saw the happiness in her.

I smiled and thank God because they were both safe from harm. I realized how difficult it is to give birth. I realized how special we are. I am so blessed to experience the love of a mother. Having my mother, who is always beside me, supporting me all the way. Mom, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I will always be thankful to God for giving me the most wonderful mother, a daughter can ever dream of.

God made these little angels. As a nurse it is my duty to take care of them. We are trusted and were given the ability to improve the quality of life. Spiderman once told me that with these great powers comes great responsibility. God has put me in this path to be His instrument in spreading His love to these patients. I am more than willing to extend my hand and be a channel of blessing to them. I know that in His perfect time I will be a nurse. For now I must be ready and equipped. I will do my best for God, for these patients, for my family and for myself.

Let us be thankful with our mothers who have sacrificed their lives for us to experience this life that we are living now. Let us cherish every moment of our lives here on earth. Let us do our all and our best in everything that we do. So that when the final day comes God will be proud of us saying that “Well done good and faithful servant, you have been worthy of these talents that I have given you and I am proud of you.”

The Moving Faith

“Faith is believing even if you do not see.” It is a complete trust to God without any doubt. It is reliance to his power and not on your own. Hebrews 11:1 says “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” Verse 3: “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” You may say that Faith is as easy as that. It is like believing that air is existing just because you can feel it though you can not see.

Verse 13: “All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on the Earth.” Our faith in God is measured by the problems we encounter. How we face our trials and pressures shows how little faith we have on our God. Yes, we believe that there is a living God who gave us eternal life. The only Savior who can save us from our sin. Yes, that is Faith. Believing in something who has yet to come.

Holding to a promise that is sometimes when we go on with our lives we tend to forget. Maybe it was a promise that is taking so long. Maybe we are impatiently waiting for God to save us on our misery lives that sometimes we tend to neglect that he has already saved us from it. The mere fact that you wake up and held a breath on a sunny morning is a blessing in disguise already. Why don’t you say a little prayer of thanksgiving for that? Some people may never wake up. But you, you were blessed. You were given a chance to wake up in the morning because somebody up there in the heavens above is watching over you. Because he loved you so much that he is willing to give you another chance to live your life here on earth.

Sometimes we are blind to see that God is already on our side. Holding us when we can not walk anymore. We were so busy and we never paid attention to that little faith we had. As if we can not wait for his perfect time and that we have to hurry with the results right then and now.

Everybody has a problems. A normal person will always have a problem. But sometimes that problem is not for us to solve. Sometimes we just need to relax and let God do the work. It’s easy said and done. Relax while inside of you your cramming and panicking. Yes you have faith be it little or big it does not matter because a Christian faith must be grounded in truth.

Sometimes we missed the truth and continue on with our own lives. Faith is so deep that I can not fathom it myself. It is very vast that a mind can not fully understand without knowing the truth. In James 2:14 says “What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?” In verse 18: “But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds and I will show to you my faith by what I do.” Verse 19: “you believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that – and shudder.” We have to do something with our faith or it will just be stagnant. Go and read your bible. Pray to a God that listens to our hearts. Fix your relationship with God and everything will follow. We need to know the truth about God. And we all know that the truth can be found in his word. We can not understand God’s ways for we are only human. But I believe that the truth hidden in the bible will help us. It will free us from all the hearth aches, bitterness, anger, jealousy, pressures, stress and loneliness.

Our faith must be sustained like food sustains our physical body. Our faith must have the truth as our foundation or else everything we believe in, everything we have put our trust in will collapse. And eventually doubt will creep in our veins, eating us slowly. And before we knew it we were gone astray. We have run away from our first love. You have hurt the only one who have accepted the whole you from the very beginning.

Every single truth that we need to know about God is found in every word in the bible. In 2 Timothy 3:16 it says “All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” Verse 17: “so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

So as a nurse feeds the patient who has an NGT, slowly but surely we will be able to digest the verses that once in our life we have accidentally ignored. Let us take time to read our Father’s love letters.

Let us not hurry in the results of the things that happen in our lives. Let just take things slowly and pray that as we grew older, our stay here on earth will not be put to vain. Let us cherish every second we breathe and let God’s plan in our lives be our desire. May God bless us Johnstonians as we touch others lives. Let us be the salt and light of the Earth. Representing our Father in heaven.

What I had to offer

Romans 12:5 it says: “so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belong to all the others.”

Service is a channel for sharing God’s love to us. We can be God’s instrument. In our home churches there are so many things to be done. Our church needs our service. We can be able to help and make a difference. We don’t need to be somebody in order for us to serve people. We don’t need to be a pastor in order to be a living testimony. We don’t need to have a good voice to be a worship leader. We just have to be our true selves and do what we can, do it with all your heart, do your best and all. That is what God wants from us.

What he wanted is our best that comes from our hearts. What we are willing to give for his kingdom. No matter how small, people seem to look at it whether you are just washing the dishes for your mom, taking care of your little brother or sister. Sharing God’s word to non-believers, encouraging those who have lost their hopes and dreams, praying for others, sharing what we have, cleaning our rooms, teaching kids at Sunday school, offering our talents, sharing our knowledge, studying hard, caring for our patients, offering a hand to our classmates, giving our tithes and offerings, cooking for our dad, helping our little brother with his homework, assisting to walk an old woman in the street. You can do anything and everything that you are so cheerful of doing or sharing. Sometimes we are not appreciated. Sometimes our efforts are unnoticed by people around us. But God sees our efforts. Imagine seeing God smile because of you? How rewarding is that? We don’t do these because of what others will say. We do it for God’s glory. When our right hand has done something do not let our left hand see it. For what is hidden and what is unnoticed is greatly rewarded by God.

Imagine if all of us will do something for God, then our nations will be blessed for we are willing to serve each other. There will be unity and peace in our country because no one is just confined in himself. Everyone will be willing to sacrifice for his brother, thinking less of himself. There will be no corruptions, no crime, no selfishness, and no poverty. Then the world will be a better place to live in.

Let us extend our hands in order to reach others. We will surely find true happiness in sharing what we have. It is so rewarding to make someone smile because of our simple efforts. Service is an offering to God. We are one body of Christ. Imagine if a tooth aches isn’t it difficult to finish or even start what we are doing? Each has a special part to accomplish. Each part is equally important just like the others. If that part does not function well, then it will greatly affect the other parts. Here on earth we are God’s hands, and God’s feet. Let us not be ashamed in serving God by our nothingness. Do not ever think that you can not do it, for when we are not capable, God is capable. Let us offer God ourselves. Let him use you for his purpose. May God bless us future nurses.