"What Sarah said"

I listened to a song "what Sarah said" by Death Cab for Cutie. It made me think about something I hadn't stop to think about before. As a nurse, especially as an ER nurse it may fall on me to help families cope with loss or even to be the bearer of bad news. How will it feel to know that the next words out of my mouth will cause someone pain and sadness? 

Doing clinicals you are surrounded by death all the time. Surrounded by illness and death, it makes you realize how precious life is. How fragile and frail life is. The Bible says it like a flower that is here today and gone tomorrow. It makes me so utterly frustrated when I waste my time. A word of admiration left unsaid, one less I love you. How much time do I waste being angry, sad, afraid of rejection? Too much in my opinion. 

I guess my prayer is that God would remind me of the beauty all around me, and that beauty will help to focus on what is so precious and important... Life. It's what you do in this life that counts for eternity. 

-Phoenix