What I Do

 Two readings from the same source this weekend. 

"Inside the trauma room, a nurse was cutting the clothes off a motionless man in his fifties on a table; tubes were coming out of his mouth and arms. Doctors started doing things to him not meant for my eyes and sorely misrepresented on TV shows. Another nurse was hooking things up to him while a doctor put on gloves and motioned for paddles, which he then placed into the motionless man's freshly cracked-open chest. 

" A nurse stepped back to where I was standing, and I leaned over to her. 'Everyone seems to have a job, but what am I doing here?'

"She looked at my badge and said, 'Your job is to be aware of God's presence in the room while we do our jobs.'"

"[A]ddressing pain and tragedy is one of my main responsibilities as a pastor."

--Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix