International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation

It was not until recent that I came across Female Genital Mutilation due to an experience I had at my work place. I was completely taken back at what I was told. The images that flashed into my head were unbelievable.  It was over a matter of days that I thought about this concept, this evil, and this abusive power,or maybe power isn't even the right word to describe it.

For those who do not know what Female Genital Mutilation is, I will inform you. FGM is a operation, in which the female Genitals mainly the clitoris is partially or entirely removed or injured with the goals of altering a woman's sexual feelings.  This operation in the past years has been done mainly before puberty between the ages of 4-6, but increasingly the popularity of FGM is being performed on girls much younger. As young as a couple days old.

As I write out this blog post my stomach hurts, My mind is going in a million different direction, Why do people do this? I have not done much research into the back ground of this horrible practice other than knowing that it is a major practice found in many Muslim communities.

I can't help but think of how silly us as America's our. Thinking that we are raging war on women because certain people don't believe in abortions or you may not be paid as much as your male co worker. When really we have no idea what the true war on women is like. Today is international day of zero tolerance to female genital mutilation. It is the topics like this that weigh heavy on my heart, making me wish that Jesus would come back soon.

Let us raise awareness and have zero tolerance. Let us focus on the real war on women and pray for girls to be rescued, and souls to be saved.

Sunshine Girl in Red.

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All Is Well!

All is well. Just not as planned. As you can see this is not a USA blog post that I had promised at the beginning of the year, but it is a Blog Post!

I hope you all will forgive me for my absence. You see I have been playing with different blog ideas in my head- But today I just needed someone, something to write too about what life has been like the past couple weeks.

As some of you may already know, I started a new job in December, and some of you also know that I struggled when I first started. Not quite sure what I had got myself into. It is not that I don't like my co-workers, or my actually duties at the job, but it is different. I spent the first month and actually all of January praying and thinking. Saying "God I really like this Job, I like who I work with, I like that I  have new responsibilities, I like my schedule",  but I was still struggling with not understanding how I was suppose to fit in with a different patient culture and different patient personalities in a  office that is trying to be built, but only being built with certain and somewhat strict regulation.  Making me want what I used to have at my old office. A primary care that was busy, crazy, overwhelming, and physical draining, but Something happened yesterday.

Yesterday was a typical Monday at work. I went in with only one patient on the schedule. Thankfully with a couple walk-ins, and a sick visit, we had a scheduled of four patients. I was excited, you need to understand that for a practice that is limited to a smaller patient base, and is in the progress of being built and expanded, having four patients on your scheduled is very good.

It was one patient in particular yesterday that as I drove home, and spent the night replaying the office visit and conversation back in my head trying to process the thoughts and feelings I had that I realized. I may be at a small practice, but yesterday after weeks of asking God to show me what my purpose was in this office, He showed me. He had me realize that I did not always have to be in a fast passed, overwhelming office to see people who need help and Jesus in their life. I have chosen not go into exact detail but my heart was broke yesterday. It broke for the patient, and her family.

It was like God was saying to me Darling, I know you are so worried about not being in an office like what you were used to in Akron, but don't you see? My children are everywhere and they are lost and hurting. I may not have been able to save my patient and her family like I wished I could, but I am forever changed. I was reminded that I am at my office for a reason, and that sometimes prayer is all I can do when it comes to patient care. 

I am so thankful for my Father in heaven, the ultimate Physician. I am thankful that I can go to him in prayer understanding that He is the One who heals in this sick and broken world.

Saving the world one prayer at a time,

Sunshine Girl in Red. 

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Do not let your Hearts be Harden.

I can not explain how easy it is for me to get discouraged with society, whether i  witness something first hand, or hear it on the news. I slowly find myself hardened by the evil and corruption.  I try to remind myself that people are still people. They are people that need to be love, nurtured and saved. And for those three reasons is the very three facts I choose my career in the healthcare field, to love, nurture and to help people To know the truth of God's love. Oh, how easy it has become to lose sight of what is really important. I suppose this is true of all of us at one time or another. In this wicked depraved world don't lose heart. Jesus is still on the throne!

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