Saying goodbye to D6/4

Miraculously my to-do lists are dwindling, as are my days left working on D6/4, my home away from home for the last two and a half years.  It is incredibly sad to walk away from a job I love, with great patients and rockstar co-workers.  I'm sure I'll be awfully sappy in the coming days and hug a lot of people, but it's not as terrible as I thought it would be.  Somehow, I feel remarkably calm about all of it.  Weird.

I don't know how people make massive life-changing decisions like these without the peace that God provides.  See, I'm not some amazing, faithful person who has so much courage to quit my job and serve as a nurse in Africa.  God is the one we should pat on the shoulder.  God is the one who provided me first with the desire to serve, then the opportunity, and now the ability to make it become a reality.  This dream isn't coming true because I was willing to 'do the hard thing' or the 'right thing', but because it's the path God has lead me down.  In fact, He's made it fairly easy and low stress.  Sure, I've had moments when I obsessively brainstorm about where I could work when I return, but these 'freak-outs' are fairly infrequent (especially if you know my propensity to worry). So, even if I'm sad to leave the crazies on Neuro (the nurses, not the patients, duh!)... I am leaving with a sense of peace.  Someday I'll be back, at least to visit.  And I'll always remember my time working on D6/4 with thankfulness, so much laughter and many fond memories. 

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." -Jesus
John 14:27