Sue
Morningstar's Providence ER Dedication Blessing,
May 5, 2004:
I'd like to offer a prayer for healing for all those
who pass through these doorways:
Our patients and their families, the dedicated medical, nursing,
administrative and support staff, the housekeepers, the dispatchers
and the ambulance drivers, the beautiful and courageous volunteers,
the creators who conceived of and designed and constructed
this building, to all the benefactors who contributed their
time and money and creativity to this project, and to all
of us:
From
deep within the heart of my soul, now let the healing begin. Anah,
ayl nah, r'fah nah lah. Heal our bodies, open our hearts,
awaken our minds, Shechinah.
A
special prayer for all the healers among us, from the Prayer
of Maimonides, the great rabbi, philosopher and physician
of the Middle Ages:
In
Your eternal providence, You have chosen me to watch over
the life and health of Your creatures. Support me almighty
G-d in these great labors, that they may benefit humankind,
for without your help, not even the least thing will succeed.
Inspire me with love for my art and for Your creatures.
Do not allow thirst for profit, ambition, for renown and
admiration to interfere with my profession. May there never
rise in me the notion that I know enough, but give me the
strength and leisure and zeal to enlarge my knowledge. Preserve
the strength of my body and my soul, that I may ever be
ready to cheerfully help and support rich or poor, good
and bad, enemy as well as friend. In the sufferer, let me
see only the human being.
