I walked out of the hospital this morning and couldn’t catch my breath.
Disclosure: I wasn’t there for the services, I was leaving my last shift of work. Overwhelmed with gratitude and simply in awe of the works God has done in and through me these past few years.
All I could think about was what this job had taught me, and how this job has prepared my heart for the world race.
The dream started in high school, when I volunteered in a Neonatal ICU for the very first time. Folding baby blankets and organizing onesies in bins may have been a tiny task, but it fueled a dream that I chose to chase through college.
At the time it was a dream for a job.
Looking back now, God made it a dream for a purpose.
That purpose: to impact His Kingdom.
I didn’t know it then, but baby blankets and onesies was a God driven moment.
In three years, patient after patient, and family after family have impacted me in so many ways. I don’t know if it was the gentle love that some parents needed in order to make it through their stay or the tiny but mighty punch a 2 lb baby can throw when he or she is fighting for their life that lead me constantly toward my faith. Relying on it when I didn’t have the words to comfort a mom or dad, depending on it when nothing else was helping and I wanted to question God, and rejoicing in it when families showed me the peace and understanding I couldn’t find when they lost their little one.
I always thought being a nurse was my calling,
But God told me something even better…
Being a nurse is your job, Impacting lives is your calling.
Each of us are made so special!
Unique and of great importance.
Set apart to impact the world in many ways!
Whether it be a baby or strangers around the world, impacting a life has the potential to impact the world. All it takes is a moment!
A moment of encouragement for a mother about to hold her child for the first time
A moment of inspiration a pastor needs to empower a congregation
A moment of kindness to redirect the heart of a gang member
A moment of grace when a stranger treats you poorly
A moment of light when someone is drowning in darkness.
He’s calling! All we need to do is open our hearts!
A heart or soul unsettled means God wants to stir up in us a spirit of thirst, a desire to grow more, and an opportunity to trust Him more than we ever have. He knew all along that my heart would flutter for a chance to travel the world to impact the lives of the lost, hopeless, unloved and unwanted. He knows what your heart will flutter for too. He found a way to stir up my heart and now I have a new dream- a dream to impact lives around the world. He’ll stir up a dream in you too!
Dream on, lovely people!
Find the dream God has put on your heart and boldly pursue it!
Just when you think your dream has come true…
He’ll throw an even better one at you!
Catch it. Run with it. And look to Him every step of the way!
“You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy.” 1 Peter 1:8
XOXO
Taylor
