Who Ministers To God?
Today I meet a lady paramedic named Connie. “I’ve been a paramedic for 26 years” she tells me. “24 hours on and 24 hours off. I love it.”
Why do you love it,” I ask.
“Because of the excitement. It’s always a thrill. You never know who it’s going to be that’s in trouble or what the situation will be.”
Connie says, “There was one lady in her 60′s who kept calling us because she was having a heart attack. We went there 16 times and it was never a heart attack! When she called the 17th time my partner said, ‘I’m not going this time. You take care of her.’”
So, I did. I got there and I said, “So what is the real problem? What’s really bothering you?”
“She told me she wanted to go home to Russia.
“She lived alone and had no friends or family here. So I said, ‘Do you really mean that? Do you truly want to go home to Russia?’ She said she did so I picked up the phone and made some calls. Then I immediately booked her a ticket to Russia.”
“Really!?” I say.
Connie says, “Yes and we haven’t heard from the lady since.”
“Wow,” I say.
“It’s not just being a paramedic for the body,” Connie says, “we’re a paramedic for everything.”
After a few moments of silence I say, “I believe I’m a paramedic for the mind. I help people with their emotional issues, their pains and suffering and their questions. But,” I add “I wouldn’t want to be a paramedic for the body. I don’t think I would do so well with someone who’s lying squashed in the road.”
My new friend says she has to be a paramedic for the mind, too. The body, the soul and the mind.
All my various hats are off to Connie and all the other paramedics. Thank God for paramedics who minister to all things. They are like a Church, I think. Now I know that they minister to the body the mind and the soul. I never knew that.
For years I have watched the Medivac helicopters landing in the giant field across the street from my mother’s house. They always go there to pick up victims of auto accidents and other desperate ailments. There is a church there and the copters always land in the church parking lot.
Now, it all makes sense. Because I believe we are all God having experiences…now I see that Paramedics are God ministering to Itself. How cool is this?
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That is pretty cool, Venus! I think it’s wonderful that Connie had the wisdom to see there was something else this woman really wanted/needed, followed through with a question and then took some action. Beautiful!
I once answered phones for an answering service and one of our clients was a security company who would get numerous daily calls from an elderly woman. She would call and yell, “There’s someone rattling around in my attic (or roof) with chains!” or “There’s a man on my front door! I don’t know who he is!” The men would drive out, check her house and there was always nothing to be found. She was an elderly woman who apparently had no friends or family in the area, and they figured it was her way of coping with loneliness.
However, they also believed she was a little crazy, and I have to agree. I spoke to her many times and there was no getting through her panic. Unfortunately, she became such a nuisance to the company, they changed their phone number a few times but she always found them again and the calls would begin anew. You see, for every phone call she made and we took a message from her, it cost the company 35 cents! And she sometimes would call a dozen times a day, each and every day! It also cost the company time and money to send someone out to check on her.
Her paranoid calls were so numerous that all of us at the answering service would simply type in, “Mildred called again. Man on roof.” “Mildred again.” “Mildred again, strange noise in back yard.” The men checking in for the messages would just sigh and I could feel them shaking their heads. The elderly lady who cried wolf was at it again! lol I wonder whatever happened to her?
Hi Lisa…So many of feel us feel this loneliness and for some of us it’s all the time. We need to say ‘hello’ and ‘how are you’ much more often, I think. xo
I completely agree, Venus.
I really love how this women handled it, it shows her true connection to the Source in action. Love those acts of kindness, it makes all of us happy. A good story for the week to shae with everyone, it makes the impossible possible AND have to mention I see the lilacs in the picture….my favorite, had them growing up in Minnesota and the smell brings me home in a good way….I have grown them here in the south, and finally got them to bloom and this year is the best:)
I believe illness starts with the emotions. If we all had a little more compassion for each other and took just those few extra minutes for anyone needing them, it feeds not only each other, but the whole of humanity.
Hi Venus,
I sent this forward to friends and family, as I do all your ecards/blogs! This is not your funniest… I really liked the story of the evangelist in the beautyshop! …. but this one really strikes my heart. Thank You!
Thanks for reminding me that ‘We are all God, having experiences” , ’cause that’s the truth! We just have to decide what kind of experience we want to have!
I think it’s wonderful this woman is going well above and beyond her actual duty. If everyone put this much enthusiasm and empathy into dealing with others, the world would be a much nicer place.
Thanks Patsy for sending the blogs on..I’m happy knowing that they are on the road and traveling!
Yes, Venus……THANK GOD FOR PARAMEDICS, and Police and Firemen and all those people that keep us safe and the people at the grocery store and the Post office and the Gas Station….let’s not forgot the gardeners and the carpenters and the electricians. Well, actually, THANK GOD for everyone that performs all the jobs that I don’t, where would I be without them…Oh, truth be told………..THANK GOD, period.
This a great story Venus, I’m glad to hear there are still earth angels out there helping people !!!