Right people, right place, right time!

I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my spokesperson to the world.
—Jeremiah 1:5

Ever wondered about the daily grind, the challenges that seem to always be right in your face, the endless tasks and where they all lead to?

Ever felt like packing it in, doing something else, something easier, less demanding?

Ever wonder if you are up to the task at hand?

I sure have...many times in my years of service. Wondered, but by God’s strength persevered, struggled and came out the other side tired, sometimes spent but smiling!

Young Jeremiah wondered if he was up to the task God had set before him and received the counsel noted in the text above. Amazing to know that you are known and called by God to a service for humankind. Whether that involves making sandwiches or doing open heart surgery, you each have a calling, each have a purpose...a God given purpose in life.

This past weekend my wife and I traveled to Washington DC to be with our family as we celebrated our youngest daughter’s graduation from the George Washington University, with her Masters in International Development. The ceremonies were held on the National Mall, between the Capitol building at one end and the Washington Monument at the other end. Seven thousand graduates plus family and friends made up the crowd of more than 20,000 people.

You never know when you are in the right place at the right time, but going about life faithfully and diligently allows you the privilege of acknowledging when those moments happen.

It happened yesterday as the graduating class, future leaders of America joined their voices with faculty, family and friends and together as a might choir sang the National Anthem in the right place at the right time. Goose bumps had goose bumps on top of them...it was that kind of moment.

You have had those moments in your life too. Faithfully doing what you do best only to realize how important your best was at that moment, that time, with that patient.

Being aware that your life has a purpose gives you courage and strength to make it through the tough days. Having purpose helps you go about doing your best no matter what only to realize the difference your best made for that anxious patient, or the one who was all alone and you comforted, or the one who was so difficult but you hung in and listened to her pain of a broken home.

Right people who are in the right place at the right time are not lucky as some might say. No, they are purposed by God, and find the right place, right time, by doing every day what they are called to do best!

You are the right person, right now for the patient, family, physician partner or fellow associate who needs you to do what you do best.