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JENNIFER @ GETTING DOWN WITH JESUS
I want to get news letters but I’m not on any social network,straight email..how can this be done,I just enjoy your website so much…thanks peggie
Hi Peggie! If you look on the righthand rail here on the blog, you’ll see a place where it says “Enter your email address.” Click subscribe. After that, Getting Down With Jesus will arrive in your inbox three times a week.
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God bless you, Peggie!
Hey Jen –
Transferred my original blog over to a new site. Just wanted to keep you in the “loop” so we could still connect.
God’s Blessings
Rita.
I am a hospice nurse. I love my job! I love to go out and see my patients, spend time with them, get to know them and their families, and, somehow, I feel I am ministering to them. Even when my patients die, I feel I am doing God’s work.
A patient of ours named Mr. Jones (not his real name) is going to have a procedure tomorrow to have a cancerous tumor removed. The Hospice Chaplain planned to visit Mr. Jones today, as did I. Mr. Jones has never verbalized much spirituality, but allows the chaplain to visit occasionally.
At the end of my visit with Mr. Jones, I asked him, as I always do, “is there anything else I can do for you or get for you before I leave today?”
Mr. Jones answered with “You can pray for me.”
I sat back down on the couch, bowed my head, folded my hands, and said a prayer for Mr. Jones, and once again, grabbed my medical bag intending to leave.
Then Mr. Jones told me, “I’m just not prepared. You see,” he stated, “I have never been baptized.”
Once again, I put my medical bag on the floor and sat on the couch and we began to talk about baptism. With so many different beliefs and so many different faiths, there are many different views on baptism. When is the time to do it? As an infant? As an adult? I shared with him that maybe baptism wasn’t the most important part. I told him that maybe it’s more important that we believe in God, and that He had a son who died on the cross for our sins, and that if we ask for forgiveness and ask him into our hearts that maybe that was the most important thing.
As I said these words, Mr. Jones was shaking his head in agreement and saying “yes, yes.”
What I didn’t do was take that final step and ask him if he had accepted Jesus into his heart, and I didn’t ask him if he would like me to help him do that. Who am I to help another ask Jesus into his heart? I’m a sinner, over and over and over again. Every day. Am I really worthy of this task? These are the questions I ask myself which prevented me from taking that final step with Mr. Jones.
We ended our discussion and my visit. When I left Mr. Jones’ home, I called the chaplain and told him of our discussion. I told the chaplain that I opened the door for him but didn’t step inside, and maybe he could finish what I started. He thanked me and told me he would be visiting Mr. Jones in about an hour.
I later received a phone call from the chaplain. When he arrived at Mr. Jones’ home, there was a house full of family and friends. Mr. Jones was enjoying himself and did not want to ask his company to give he and the chaplain some private time. The chaplain was not able to ask Mr. Jones about his salvation. It will have to wait for another visit.
Tonight I am asking forgiveness once again from the God of my heart. Forgiveness for feeling too unworthy to take that step and ask Mr. Jones if he needed help with the salvation prayer. And tonight I am wondering if I will ever get over the shame of my unworthiness. And now a thought crosses my mind. What if Mr. Jones never gets the chance again to have someone with him who will lead him to salvation? How will I feel? How am I going to answer my God when He asks why I didn’t finish what I started?
I don’t have an answer. Tonight I will pray again for forgiveness. I will also pray for God to take away my shame and feelings of unworthiness, and I will pray for courage, so that next time the opportunity arises, I can rise and finish the task that I was called to achieve.
Hi Jennifer,
I am new to your Blog. Found you through Mrs. P! I am linking up for the first time with Getting Down With Jesus! Nice to meet you! In His Grace, Dawn/Modern Day Disciple @ Beneath The Surface: Breath of Faith