Thank you - to Doctors

Thank you - to doctors and medical staff.

(Number three in a series of eight prayers.)

Lord, God, I  thank you for medical doctors. Well, yes, for other specialties, too, but medicine is not only a day-by-day topic right now. It's an essential hour-by-hour conversation. 

With your creative power, you chose some men and women to possess skills and abilities that would bring healing to large communities. Lord of the Universe, great understanding and personal discipline combined with scientific knowledge come from you. I praise you for the mystery of life, which doctors are constantly attempting to understand. 

I praise you for the variety of specializations. Eye clinics make it possible to improve sight. Dentists and their assistants keep our oral hygiene in mind. The number of specializations seems endless. We are blessed to live at a time when countless discoveries have been made about the functioning of the human body. Each year, further knowledge is circulated in the medical community. I praise you that medical research has brought improvements to the great challenges of our time: cancer, diabetes, heart, and stroke. Thank you, Lord, for the mysteries of the brain, for the physical structure which contains our thoughts, memories, passions, motivations, and sense of purpose. I praise you for discoveries that gradually lead to an understanding of why some of us lose our memory functions.

I'm always amazed at how medical staff treat each person as an individual. That's wonderful. So unlike most of society. This photo reminded me of that aspect of a doctor's life.

When faced with an upcoming diagnosis, we often wait in fear for what the doctor will say to us. Lord, we seldom stop to think of the pressure on our medical staff. We can't even imagine what goes through a doctor's mind. No doctor wants to make an incorrect diagnosis. We think we are the most important person in their rounds, or in their office, yet an endless stream of patients comes to a clinic or a hospital. We pray for the pressure on doctors as the challenges of Covid-19 continue to rock the medical world.

Yet, in the middle of endless cases, I pray that doctors will remember the words of the psalmist, and worship you as the Creator God. "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Psalm 139:13-15 

Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, may medical staff be led to worship you in spirit and truth as they constantly contemplate the intricacy of your work in creation. Amen."