"I should record that"
I am on an Alaskan cruise and all is well and all is blessed. While I fret that I am not maintaining connections to my blogging friends by checking into their sites at a reasonable frequency, I am reminded the purpose for this blog - primarily as a record, a journal, to which I invite others along.
Today while getting a stone massage, and spending the time in prayer, I realized the burden and weight that I carry upon my shoulders with respect to my career.
I am a psychiatrist. First I sought to be a doctor. Then I became a Christian. Then I discounted psychiatry because I was taught about it's evil ways, so to speak. Then God clearly called me into psychiatry. Then God blessed me in this career in all measurable ways and continues to do so. It is a career that, I suppose that I love, with reservations.
The reservations. That's been a problem. I had not realized that God is IN the field of psychiatry. I suppose that I did not realize this because my first Pastor specializes in teaching it's evils. I suppose also because there are so many nonbelievers in the field and also because there is perversion and corruption in the field. Yet, it IS God's field, because He is the Creator of all things, and psychiatry is an assemblation of disorders, and a study of how to best treat those disorders.
I am a psychiatrist and I am doing what my Father has created me to do. "I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven" said Paul.
Father, take this weight off my back - the weight that lies and proclaims that I am less because I am a psychiatrist, that I am "a little disobedient" when I am not disobedient, that says that I should be ashamed when others should be ashamed when they judge me because they will have to stand before You with their false presumptions. Re-make my mind and lift this burden from satan. Enable me to fulfill Your glorious calling for me. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Today while getting a stone massage, and spending the time in prayer, I realized the burden and weight that I carry upon my shoulders with respect to my career.
I am a psychiatrist. First I sought to be a doctor. Then I became a Christian. Then I discounted psychiatry because I was taught about it's evil ways, so to speak. Then God clearly called me into psychiatry. Then God blessed me in this career in all measurable ways and continues to do so. It is a career that, I suppose that I love, with reservations.
The reservations. That's been a problem. I had not realized that God is IN the field of psychiatry. I suppose that I did not realize this because my first Pastor specializes in teaching it's evils. I suppose also because there are so many nonbelievers in the field and also because there is perversion and corruption in the field. Yet, it IS God's field, because He is the Creator of all things, and psychiatry is an assemblation of disorders, and a study of how to best treat those disorders.
I am a psychiatrist and I am doing what my Father has created me to do. "I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven" said Paul.
Father, take this weight off my back - the weight that lies and proclaims that I am less because I am a psychiatrist, that I am "a little disobedient" when I am not disobedient, that says that I should be ashamed when others should be ashamed when they judge me because they will have to stand before You with their false presumptions. Re-make my mind and lift this burden from satan. Enable me to fulfill Your glorious calling for me. In Jesus' name, Amen.
posted by An Ordinary Christian | 12:38 PM
7 Comments:
The world of psychiatry would be a sad place without you in it. You are clearly meant to bring God's touch into your work and you do it beautifully. A Christian Psychiatrist. What a blessing you are!!
I hope you enjoyed your stone massage! I don't have a clue what that is, but it sounds warm and wonderful. I need one NOW! :)
The psychiatric field really needs Christ filled doctors..I'm so happy you answered your call. Both of my daughters are nurses, one being a psychiatric nurse in a large hospital. She see's first hand the need for Christ in her work and I feel the patients are blessed to have a Christian nurse to care for their troubled lives. I hear the stories of those people she ministers too. God Bless you for taking on such a needed and difficult profession. Also, I don't know what a stone massage is either, but I'm standing in line behind Maria del Carmen to get one too! :0
Pat
Hi Andrea, my Christian psychiatry friend is the most Godly man I've ever met, and used by God mightily for his patients. Am sure God will use you the same way dear.
So what is a stone massage?
i love massages and i still yet to try the stone massage. you're a fine psychiatrist and a fine christian in one. you're a mighty servant of God. as long as you obey Him, blessings will run after you and i firmly believe that.
I'm so glad you're able to get away and enjoy God's blessings for you.
Please don't be discouraged by what others say, no one can know God's calling for you, but you. As long as you seek His will, He'll show it to you.
Enjoy yourself on your vacation. I'm praying and thanking God for you.
I'm sorry you were told that psychiatry is filled with evil. In reality, evil can usurp any form, even music- so I guess we should all quit worshiping.
The truth is, we see psycology all over the Bible. Every story and motive is initiated by the psyche or the soul. I'm sorry someone led you to believe otherwise at one point.
I can relate. I have a degree in creative writing from a very liberal school. When I became a new believer I went to a church in town where the pastor made fun of me openly for pursuing liberal arts because there was no money in it! Also, he thought my school was the pit of Hell and he wasted no opportunity to bash it. (I didn't like the school, either, but come on. show some tact). I ended up dropping my art minor and slacking off in my writing classes because I thought a good Christian would do that, according to the bad counsel I received that the church. I left that church 6 months ago and it has been the best decision I have ever made as a Christian. I am seeking to meet people at a new church now and I am learning who I am in Christ. I want to pursue writing again and to see what God can do!
Be encouraged in your field!
I love yall and thank you so much and miss your blogs. A stone massage is a regular massage but hot stones are applied. Love your words of advise and encouragement. Miss you!
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