So, on Day #5 of the living Advent calendar, I finally had a day where I read the passage in the morning, so I knew about it all day (see the issue when we ate dinner and neglected to use candles, reading the passage too late). And I spent the whole day trying to surprise someone with my gentleness. Now, although large and loud, I would consider myself pretty gentle, by nature. So I was not sure how to make it a surprise. Sure I held the door for someone at Wawa (they seemed surprised), but that did not see like it was Advent-worthy.....So, now, I read the passage again, and this jumped out at me:
"though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle* among you, like a nurse tenderly caring for her own children"
Today was a vacation day from my job. I picked it because I have "use it or lose it" days this month (I cannot earn over the cap) and I had no meetings. But, last week, I was asked to give a talk to some graduating students (part of my old job), since my position remains unfilled. So I did. And I realized one facet of my old job that I cannot replace in my new one. Nurses care so much for people in this world. The sick and the well, the young and the old. And, in my old job at the Nursing School, I helped nurses become nurses (and NPs and CNMs and CRNAs and CNSs). So I nursed the nurses, if you will. And, today, I did it for one of the last times, as a favor to a former colleague. So I hope I was gentle among them, and I hope that they, in their new practice as midwives, will be gentle among their patients as well.
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