It's in these moments of significance that we have to decide to pay attention or just let the moment slide by. Decisions have to be made in moments, in seconds, in milliseconds. If you don't decide, the moment passes. And often you can't go back and do that moment over again.
I don't exactly remember the moment I decided I wanted to go to med school. I vaguely remember being 16 and loving anatomy class and realizing being a doctor would be so cool. But that decision stuck. It drove me for years. It still drives me.
In medicines, decisions have to be made in milliseconds. A few weeks ago, I stood in the shock trauma room and watched a team of surgeons bring in a man with a gun shot wound to the chest. It felt like an eternity, but in less than five minutes, they had in intubated, knocked out, with a femoral line in, catheter in, blood drawn, and an X-ray of where the bullet was. There was no time to think and decide. No time to mull over what to do. They had seconds. Moments. It was INSANE. I thought my heart was going to burst out of my chest, it was beating so hard. And I was just watching.
Sometimes moments happen like that. Very quickly and you remember every detail. I can tell you the exact moment I decided to go to China. It happened in seconds. Yes I had thought, prayed, and talked for a while, for weeks about it. But the decisions, happened in a moment.
I was sitting in fellowship with my family. The speaker was a worker from India. I had gone into the service not sure what I was going to do. I don't even remember what the speaker said, all I know is he said China about 3-4 times. I looked over at my mom. I think my eyes must've said what Father was telling me, because she smile at me and mouthed the words, "You're going." And I just nodded. And there was no going back.
We miss moments all the time. Because we are not in the moment. Right now is the only moment we can do anything about. Right now is where we are. All we have to do is decide in that moment. Failure to decide ... is to decide on failure. To miss what He has for you.
But there's a miracle in the moment. Those moments can change your life. The moment you set foot in a foreign country, the moment you watch your baby sister go under the water and not come back up, the moment you get that phone call with the news, the moment you see the tears in the eyes of the child you love most in this world, the moment you have to tell that child good-bye. Moments can make us laugh, cry, scream, dance. But if we aren't present in the moment, we miss that. And often we miss the miracles Father has in those moments.
Think back to those moments. The miracles. Look at the moment you're in now. What is He showing you? Don't waste the moment. It's a gift.
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| Taiyuan-thanks to Hailey for this pic |
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| Flying to Haiti |
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| Playing with my babies |
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