When I go into work I always take the stairs to the unit. Those five flights serve a purpose. I pray the whole way up. I've never told anyone. As I was having my QT (quiet/quality time) with God today, I read two phrases that compelled me to share with you my opening sentences. The phrases I read were: "Make friends with the problems in your life" and "I will not necessarily remove your problems, but My wisdom is sufficient to bring good out of every one of them" (Young, 2004, p.68). How does this relate to me taking the stairs and praying? Well, because I ask God to help me conjure up and or seek serenity, guidance, wisdom, cool headedness, humility, clarity, resources, confidence, et cetera, to be able to handle situations and provide safe care for my patients during the shift. There is a great quote by the late Bruce Lee that embodies the purpose of my stairs prayer, it reads "Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one". In other words pray for the tools to help you face your problems, giving you the possibility of solving them. The idea is the same when "addicts learn the Serenity Prayer, rooted in a two- thousand-year old Stoic phrase: 'ta eph'hemin, ta ouk eph'hemin'. What is up to us, what is not up to us" (Holiday 2014, p. 42-43). There are external elements at play, but there are also the choices we make. Everyone's life has their own share of problems. Problems are just part of it. An easy life just does not exist. So, is it up to you? Yes, yes it is. "In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices."
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