Recently a really awesome thing happened in my life. I was looking at my schedule last Monday and realized that I was going to be hurting financially if I didn’t get more patients. I was about ready to call the office and request some admits. I first talked to God and basically freaked out to him.

Before I could place the call the office called me and they said that a nurse who had been working some facilities in my area was no longer working for them. They wanted to know if I could work at those facilities. Are you kidding me? “Yes!” I replied. This was the best position a home health nurse could dream of and of course I wanted to work those facilities.

I knew the nurse I would be replacing. I had worked with her at other facilities and I was surprised that a company as good as mine would have hired her. I did not dislike her as a person, I was just not very impressed with her as a nurse.

I heard all kinds of things about her but mostly they were good. I had a different opinion of her nursing quality than most of the people who knew her from the facility. That is why it surprised me when I read the Bible for wisdom as to how to handle this.

Every passage in the Bible that I turned to said for me not to say anything against her. What? She wasn’t that good of a nurse though. I was still not supposed to say anything against her. So I didn’t, I just listened to others rave about her while my stomach churned.

I went to Bible study tonight and I was thinking and praying about this when I felt like I got some wisdom. It was not important for me to tell others what I thought about this nurse. It was instead important for me to praise God for this amazing opportunity and to be grateful. To revile and demean another person is never the way that God would want me to treat someone else. That takes the focus off of Him and His goodness and it turns me into an ungrateful schmuck.

Usually I am very talkative, today I just listened and I am glad that I did because listening is sometimes the best way to tell God “thank you.”