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What I Learned This Week

Sunday
We need each other.
*Context: A small group of friends spends the day together, and one of them feels refreshed after having done so.

Monday
We have more influence over other people's days (and even lives) than we are sometimes willing to admit.
*Context: A student cries in a meeting after being reprimanded by all six of his teachers, in the same room, for consistently annoying others.

Tuesday
Investing in others can be very fulfilling.
*Context: Students make much more of a teacher's birthday than he ever thought they would.

Wednesday
Medicine-- even in the assistant role-- is a field with very visible responsibility.
*Context: A student takes his first set of complete vital signs, and realizes that he is dealing with others' lives.

Thursday
We may not be able to control others' behavior, but we can move mountains with our response to it.
*Context: Someone says something unkind about a teacher in the presence of another teacher, and the listening teacher-- in a hurry-- says nothing. The listening teacher realizes later that this moment was wholly worth stopping for.

Friday
Growing older is a great thing for the person willing to learn from his or her mistakes.
*Context: A small group of people converse about their respective pasts. The members realize that they have firmer boundaries, and are far more able to handle life's challenges, than was true just five years ago.

Friday Two
Many Christians yearn for the church to do more for the needy.
*Context: Two people discuss the disparity between medicine in the United States and medicine in a country like Haiti.

Friday Three
Good music is soothing to the soul.
*Context: Good music

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