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Sometimes we need prayers to help us reflect on the pain we've lived through.
In the euphoria of a vaccine and the freedom that people will feel, the work of those who lived through the worst will be forgotten. Tragically, the effects of that work will linger for the rest of the lives of those nurses. And respiratory therapists. And intensivists and patient care techs and EVS workers and child life specialists and radiologists and pharmacy techs. And chaplains.
Into this grief come the words of a hospital chaplain who worked through this year.
Starting with Advent 2019 and going through Thanksgiving 2020, these essays and prayers reflect one hospital chaplain's conversations with God and others during a challenging year. The framework is the church calendar: Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Eastertide, Ordinary Time.
Each section starts with orientation to the season, to what was happening outside the hospital, and what was happening inside. The heartbeat is the Sunday prayers. Essays from the author's blogs, 300wordsaday.com and SocialMediaChaplain.com, are placed into that framework at the time they were written.
The death and uncertainty aren't always in the foreground of these prayers and reflections. There are stories and moments that must be protected. But those stories and moments are always informing the writing. And this isn't a memoir, not in the kind that reviews the past and provides meaning. Instead, it is a journal, written in public, offering glimpses of a difficult year.
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