We saved a life yesterday. A woman was brought in by paramedics having a massive heart attack. She was declining quickly and life saving measures had to be taken fast. We managed to stabilize her enough to send her off to cardiac cath lab to undergo a heart catheterization. She was literally teetering between life and death when she arrived at our door and just seemed to be getting worse for the 20 minutes that it took to get her to cath lab. But we received word less than an hour later that she survived the procedure and received a stent, a balloon pump, and a pacemaker. It is a bit of a thrill to be able to work as a team and make a definite difference in the outcome of someone who is so suddenly and severely ill.
I was a bit disappointed though, and this is why: I've seen lives saved before. Not just physical lives that will end eventually, but spiritual lives. I've seen people come to the Savior and receive true life. That is a true thrill!!
My experience last night is contrasted with what I read in Isaiah this morning.
"How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, and says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!' Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, they shout joyfully together; for they will see with their own eyes when the Lord restores Zion. Break forth, shout joyfully together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord has bared His holy arm in the sight of all nations, that all the ends of the earth may see the salvation of our God."
Isaiah 52:7-10
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