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Just Part of the Job, by Rubel Shelly
A resourceful doctor in rural Australia saved a boy's life with a
handyman's power drill a couple of weeks ago. Hailed as a hero when the
story broke globally, he reacted modestly. "It was not a personal
achievement," he said. "It is just a part of the job, and I had a very
good team of people helping me."
Dr. Rob Carson diagnosed a 12-year-old boy brought to a small
hospital's emergency room with a soon-to-be-fatal brain bleed. Nicholas
Rossi had been riding his bike and took a fall. His mother, a nurse,
realized the bump on his head could be serious and insisted on taking
him to the hospital. By the time they arrived, Nicholas was already
slipping in and out of consciousness.
Dr. Carson made the correct call on what was happening and knew he had
a very short time to take decisive action. He made two decisions.
First, he sent to the maintenance room for a drill, for the rural
hospital didn't have sophisticated neurosurgical tools. Second, he
called a neurosurgeon in Melbourne to ask help with his dilemma. With
an ordinary household drill in hand, he followed the specialist's
guidance through a procedure that worked flawlessly. "General
practitioners in country towns do procedures all the time," said Dr.
Carson. But a father's reaction to that modest take on what happened
was very different. "He saved our son's life!" declared Michael Rossi.
Nicholas was released from the Melbourne hospital to which he was later
transferred on May 19. The date is significant because it was his 13th
birthday.
People took was at hand and put it into God's hands!
Some of us would do well to follow the good doctor's example and learn
to be a bit more clever, gutsy, and inventive in our lives. Are you a
sales person who sits for long periods waiting to see clients? Keep a
Bible or some other good book with you to read instead of old
magazines. Are you a commuter? Rent a book on tape as an alternative to
radio trivia. Can't afford a week at the beach with your family?
Explore interesting places within an hour from home.
Has the tough economy challenged your company's customary client base?
Has illness altered the way your family functions? Has the community
around your church changed radically over the past few years? Every
challenge is a disguised opportunity for creative adaptation and
productive learning.
Gideon used clay jars and trumpets to rout an army. Samson used the
jawbone from a donkey's carcass to defeat his enemies. Jesus used a
little boy's sack lunch of bread and dried fish to feed thousands. In
these biblical episodes, people took was at hand and put it into God's
hands -- with amazing outcomes.
Creativity often comes not from seeing the light but from feeling the
heat. Maybe it will be that way with the challenge you are facing
today. Your task is not to guarantee outcomes with certainty but to
address problems with courage.
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(c) 2009 Used by permission. From Rubel Shelly <rshelly@rc.edu>'s
"FAX of Life" printed each Tuesday. See Faith Matters for
previous issues of the "FAX of Life."
RELATED LINKS:
* I Still Like History, But Christmas Trees are Better
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200004/20000405_history.html
* Whom Shall I Fear?
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200802/20080203_whomshallifear.html
* Market Place Moments: Appreciation
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200709/20070906_appreciation.html
* RubelShelly.com
http://www.rubelshelly.com/
This article can be found on the web at:
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200906/20090601_partofthejob.html
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