I was speaking to a group of nurses at ASU last week using one of my favorite analogies ... the Wizard of Oz. I truly believe that being a good nurse encompasses what the Oz foursome sought: brains, courage, heart (love), and helping others find a way home. Since I'm all about being brave this month, I'm realizing it's not just about doing hard stuff and it's not just about taking risks. Sometimes it's just being faithful to live life, paying attention to the simple things. It's about loving well and even when it costs. It's about sacrificing things like sleep, personal preferences, personal needs. It's trusting in what we cannot see (yet!).
I think we know what happens at the end of the Wizard of Oz. We find out that the wizard really isn't a wizard at all. He is just a short, bald, kind of scared little man with lots of bells and whistles, trying to be someone he is not. But what he gives our foursome is not really what they followed the Yellow Brick Road, seeking to find. After all, we now know that they had those things all along. The lion's new shiny medal did not make him courageous. He proved himself to be courageous as he forged ahead with his friends and sought to protect them along the way.
Likewise, we have in us (through Christ) ALL we need for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3). We are brave. We just need to act like it. Time to be a doer and not a hearer only. Time to pin on that medal and let the courage that is in us rise up into action!
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