A medical school
program in New York gives students who are training for geriatric medicine a
unique opportunity. They experience life as nursing home residents for 10 days.
They learn some of the struggles of maneuvering a wheelchair and being raised
out of bed with a lift, as well as reaching the shower bar from a seated
position. One student learned how little things counted for a lot—like lowering
nameplates on doors so that patients can find their rooms more easily, or
putting the TV remote in a reachable location.
Although the
students still can’t fully relate, they will be better able to serve the
elderly in their future work.
Sometimes God
gives us the opportunity to use the lessons we’ve learned and the comfort He’s
given us during difficult times to help others in special ways. Paul indicated
this when he wrote: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our
tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble” (2
Cor. 1:3-4).
Are you using the
lessons you’ve learned in your trials to touch the lives of others?
Remember—even little things can mean a lot.
God doesn’t comfort us to make us comfortable; He comforts us to make us comforters. (RBC)
