Prayers for doctors, nurses and healthcare workers
Sunday, on call
For the Sundays the schedule takes.
Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23, NIV
Lord, it is Sunday and I am here instead. Meet me in this hallway the way You would have met me in a pew. Your compassions never fail; they are new this morning, even this one. Give me back the reason I started: not to treat disease, but to bring hope to people. Keep my faith warm through the weeks nobody sees it. Amen.
Meet me in this hallway
The other moments
- Before a shift Steady hands, a clear head, and kindness when you are tired.
- When you are carrying too much For the weight that does not clock out, and the cry in the car.
- After losing a patient The day someone died and you were there, and the family in the hallway.
- The case you cannot put down The one you keep reopening: the miss, the what-if, the guilt.
- When your worth feels like your last result The evaluation, the grant, the match, the ranking.
- When you are pressed from every side Hard pressed, not crushed.
- The 3 a.m. one For the night shift, and the nights you cannot sleep.
- When you are the one who is supposed to have the answer A high priest who understands weakness.
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