ANTI-MORBID MONDAY: A God Who Gets Up Before We Do

Dixieland in Central Park
Photo Credit: Mark Grace

This morning I woke up feeling as though an angry fist were squeezing my heart.  I brooded all the way to work, alternately praying and qvetching to God.

One of my first duties on most Monday mornings is to speak to and pray with new employees who are just entering Baylor Health Care System's system-wide New Employee Orientation.  On most Mondays this is a welcome event.  It gets my blood pumping and invariably renews my sense of purpose and calling as I talk to folks about BHCS' desire to be accountable to a God that is much bigger, even, than the gargantuan bottom line of a health system that operates 26 hospitals, more than 30 free standing outpatient facilities and umpteen hundred primary care practices across the greater Dallas - Fort Worth area.