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Inspirational Nursing: Footprints in Your Heart




“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt 1184-1962


Lately, I have been reconnecting with friends and acquaintances via social networking. Either I have found them or they have found me. It has been such joy to hear from these dear hearts from years ago. Inspirational memories of nursing have flooded my mind and I have laughed, cried and found great joy in remembering people and times that were so important to me. It has been as though I have opened a beautiful story book.


So are we really able to relive our youth? Is it possible to simply close our eyes and see ourselves as we were? Can we shed years of not knowing what had become of those who were so important to us and renew relationships as if no time had elapsed?


At this point, I must admit, it has been quite a reflective journey. We may look a little older (for life can be guilty of that) but miracle of all miracles, every one of my “old” friends are still who they were years ago. Their voices are the same. Their laughs are the same. Their personalities are exactly as they were ions ago and remind me of why they were my chosen friends in the first place.


But what do they think of me? Am I the same care free girl I was so long ago? Are their memories of me good ones? Had I been a loyal and trusted friend during our youth? What do they remember the most about me? Many of those questions have been answered and surprisingly, it has been more of a blessing than anyone can imagine.


If you have not had the opportunity to connect with your past, then I encourage you to reach out! Looking back makes your nursing inspirational. People may have slipped out of your life long ago but those footprints in your heart are there to stay.


 


 




 

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Inspirations by Nurse Janet: Why She Does What She Does




 




There were times I asked myself, why am I a nurse? Why am I working rotating shifts, as well as every other weekend? Why am I working holidays when my family is home celebrating without me? Why do I accept (though not always) the fact that I have to work unexpected overtimes and occasional mandatory double shifts? And why is it just a fact of life for nurses to miss meals and breaks when we are short-staffed and overworked?


I have asked myself those questions over and over during my career. I sometimes wonder why I keep sliding my time card through the time card machine day in and day out as I watch my colleagues do the same thing. It amazes me to this day that as nurses, we just 'keep on keeping on' and never stop. Are we phenomenons, yet to be explained?


I believe there is something which is innately given to nurses. I propose that nurses are born to be nurses. We may not recognize it from 'day one', but when the realization hits us, we know. We just know. It is a 'calling', not just a job. It is a way of life and an integral part of who we are as people on the planet earth. The universe calls to us and we answer.


The world may laugh at this theory, but as nurses, we know it is true. We know it in our hearts…and that’s all that really matters.

 

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Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are

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 Take a step back. Without realizing it, you might be getting in the way of a friend's dreams.

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 "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness

and just be happy."


 

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"Whatever you are, be a good one."


 


 

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That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.




 

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Love is a gift, not a reward for service!

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"You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new

way to be."




 

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Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.




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Who, being loved, is poor?




 

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious

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What's the scariest thing you've talked yourself into doing? Was it worth it? For words of encouragement, visit www.scrubsmag.com!

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Verse:        Psalm 46:1
‘God is our safe place and our strength. He is always our help when we are in trouble.’
- God is the place to which we can run for safety.
- He is your ‘safe place’.
- Take shelter in Him.
- He will be your help and He will see you through.
PRAYER: Lord, You are my refuge and my safe place. I run to You with the full knowledge that You will strengthen and help me. Amen.
Have a terrific Tuesday.
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YES! (Thank you Earth Schooler Michele for post!)

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"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're

supposed to help you discover who you are."


 

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“If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry to evil, it is a pure human love.”




 

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Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

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" Your  body is the camera, your mind is the lens, Your heart is the Photographic plate,  your thought is the flash and intelligence is the switch to picture the Lord" - Baba

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