Wednesday, August 17, 2005

if you want a reality check... visit the psychiatry hospital

My psychiatry rotation is moving along splendid-illy... Four more days in the hospital- then the tests. It is amazing how differently I look at people these days. I pay more attention to people's mannerisms and speech patterns. It is much easier to pick up on little idiosyncrasies and personality traits after watching strangers for a little while. Quite interesting. Also, talking to so many hopeless people day after day, who would rather be dead than to have to go on living, has increased my gratefulness for the hope I have. Sometimes, I feel like my life is difficult and that I would rather not have to deal with it. But, at least I know that my suffering has a purpose!

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time
are not worth comparing with the glory
that is to be revealed to us.
Come let us return to the LORD;
for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
He has struck us down, and he will bind us up.

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