Emphasis Preaching Journal
Healed for service
Commentary
When I was in seminary, I spent a summer working as a chaplain in a Roman Catholic hospital. On one occasion I visited a man hospitalized after cancer surgery, and learned that his wife was being treated on another floor with heart arrhythmias. When I entered her room bearing reassuring news about her husband, some friends from the couple’s church were with her singing hymns. I joined them for a hymn, and then we held hands and prayed. When I left, a nurse at the station outside the woman’s room flagged me down. “What did you DO in there?” she asked.
